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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

- Led design and execution for multi-region architecture for both Ridehail and Delivery business units.

San Francisco, California, Us

- Led scaling-focused rearchitecture of Ridehail backend to support 5x concurrent trips, while also reducing costs and improving our primary KPI by 75%.- Drove operational improvements: improved metrics and logging, rebuilt operational dashboards to highlight key metrics, and reduced false positive pages (from ~6 to < 1/week).- Created team culture of using on-call weeks to drive minor operational improvements.

Took a sabbatical to relax, rejuvenate, and travel.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Senior engineer on the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation.https://github.com/njlynch* The #2 contributor to the repo during my tenure on the team. https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/graphs/contributors?from=2020-06-01&to=2022-02-01&type=c* Championed data-driven design of the AWS modules, using real-world customer data to inform API decisions.* Restructured team development processes to prioritize more collaboration and less isolation.

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Led architectural and design improvements across multiple organizations and teams (over 20 systems and their data stores) to scale the architecture 13x in under 5 months with limited resources. Simplifications to the architecture enabled delivery ahead of schedule, reduced latency and increased availability, and created a cost savings of over $250k USD/month.* Created organization-wide design review process to provide feedback, share best practices, and raise awareness across the engineering community.* Mentored other senior engineers from within and outside the organization.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Software Development Manager, AWS Certificate Manager, January 2015 - October 2016Engineering manager for AWS Certificate Manager, an easy, fast, and free way to provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services.* Led development from "greenfield" project to successful public launch of new AWS service.* Managed both local and remote team of engineers ranging from entry-level to senior engineers.* Owned feature roadmap, tasking and prioritization, scheduling, deployment and operations.Software Development Manager, AWS Infrastructure, March 2013 - January 2015Engineering manager for AWS Infrastructure’s inventory tracking systems, responsible for procurement and asset tracking for all of Amazon’s data center assets.* Scaled system to handle millions of data center assets and billions of dollars in spending every year.* Worked directly with internal partner teams to capture requirements and drive standardization in procurement processes across different types of assets.

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Designed and implemented the web service at the core of AWS Infrastructure's new host provisioning and imaging toolset.* Delivered a tool to automate ordering of data center server racks, reducing cycle time by 9 days, saving over $1B in annual CapEx.* Led development to expand the provisioning tool from server rack ordering and tracking to procurement and asset tracking for all Amazon data center equipment, tracking billions in spending each year.

North Charleston, Sc, Us

* Owned the backend accounting systems for CreateSpace's shopping cart. Transitioned the implementation from single- to double-entry accounting.* Integrated accounting system with a third-party payment processing provider.* Built web service APIs to track changes to customer-uploaded content and metadata.

Arroyo Grande, Ca, Us

* Created a customizable web crawler designed to gather and categorize business listings for clients.* Sole developer on a Windows kernel-level driver that allowed users to perform per-application volume control on Windows XP.