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Seattle, Washington, United States

A founding member of dev team; ideation to GA in six months. Own customer provisioning from Q Business and GDPR compliance.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Designed, built, and led others to build major customer-facing features. Designed and built LLM-related features for internal (fellow engineer) and external customers. Contributed code improvements to AWS CDK, AWS Amplify, langchainjs, and projen.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Built enterprise integration and AWS service console for Amazon Honeycode. Championed TypeScript, Kotlin, and TLA+ in the org. Gave tech talks, mentored new hires.

Seattle, Wa

Built customer-facing features for the *Customer Collections* and *New For You* features of the Amazon retail web site. (Used Ruby on Rails, Javascript, SQL). Performed A/B experiments and made data-driven decisions. Achieved continuous deployment.Developed an ETL pipeline to identify enthusiasts in various shopping categories to surface them on the retail web site as experts.Took initiative to design and develop a deployment system that integrates with AWS CloudFormation; built a community around it; other teams at Amazon began using it.Contributed to open-source Ruby gems: Cloudsearchable, Dalli, and promising-future.

Iowa City, Iowa Area

- Was one-person IT department for Cedar Valley Christian School. Deliverables included standardized Windows image on desktops, centralized login (Active Directory), roaming profiles, network file shares, group policy, and backups.- Was one-person IT department for Electric Beach tanning salon. Work included maintaining customer records software, backups, customer wifi, and sound system design and wiring.

* sole responsibility for all GUI programs, developed using .Net, WPF and WCF* team's subject matter expert on MIL-STD-188-220C for a Software-Defined Radio project* mentored high school and college interns* received department's Above & Beyond Award

Research Assistant in the Semantic Web Lab.

- Developed improvements to HP server firmware in C++;- Integrated Coverity Prevent, Subversion, and email to determine which team member is responsible for emergent defects.

- Established rapport with, and taught existing curriculum to, 70+ students.- Dreamt up and implemented engaging activities.- Developed a Java application to randomize seating assignments during test-taking, upholding certain constraints.

A paid appointment to tutor students in several Computer Science courses.

- Reduced software defects by designing and developing automated tests- Improved testing infrastructure by implementing major features in Perl-based test harness- Designed, implemented, and maintained an internal web app used by hundreds of employees to enroll in the City of Richardson Corporate Challenge

- Developed automated tests using Perl- Load-tested web applications- Taught Linux aliases to full-time coworkers- Discovered the value of good culture and high team morale

- Compiled some Linux kernels- Developed a web application to assemble ClearCase Configuration Specifications for full-time engineers.- Discovered the hard way how brittle UI tests can be.

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Free Software Lab, Semantic Web Lab, Amateur Radio Club

Functional Programming Principles In Scala, A

Course taught by Martin Odersky.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Student Government, Free Software Lab

Education record