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Salt Lake City, Utah, Us

Marina Del Rey, Ca, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Developed a 9 month software development curriculum (e.g. readings, activities, coding practice, quizzes, teacher aids) covering topics from Big O, polymorphism, and recursion to Agile methodology, service design, and information security.- Instructed hundreds of participants through the program, leading non-technical staff at the start of the program to successful SDE positions by the end via remote classes, regular office hours, and individual code feedback.- Developed software in Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and bash to support the automated creation, management, publishing, and live updating of learning materials and code packages for hundreds of participants.

Seattle, Wa, Us

- Integrated resource creation, deletion, update, and configuration data from AWS services with AWS Config in support of a goal to have 100% coverage of all AWS resource types.- Familiarized myself with many AWS service APIs while incorporating them into AWS Config.- Coordinated changes across teams within AWS when onboarding new resource types.

Seattle, Washington, Us

- Joined the IMDb Web Infrastructure team, coordinating changes from a dozen other feature teams and providing the technical backbone of the website.- Partnered with a senior engineer to design and implement an AWS Lambda microservice that continuously updated the sitemap, reducing search engine ingestion time without sacrificing popular page coverage.- Led technical work on IMDb website transition to full HTTPS, implementing changes to track outlying pages in advance, resolve any blockers requiring HTTP, and test with customer traffic before the full changeover.- Developed redesigned page header and footer in React, the first responsive elements on the IMDb website.- Worked in a Spring MVC backend, writing, releasing, and supporting changes pushed to hundreds of servers serving millions of users.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Migrated one advertising report's generation from Apache Pig to Apache Spark to as a proof-of-concept of processing time improvements that could be seen across all of the team's report generations.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Integrated now-defunct social features with a pre-release version of Lumberyard, Amazon's fork of the CryEngine game engine and development sandbox, written in C++.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Integrated a new monitoring service with the EC2 deployment system, providing greater insight into the status of deployments that could range from a few hosts to tens or hundreds of thousands.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked on legacy C++ and C# code for downloading software from Amazon.com as well as Java backend services utilizing Hibernate. Worked with Oracle databases and .jsp web pages and worked closely with the QA team to test new/updated software.

- Instructed younger cellists- Helped with setting up and organizing activities for camp attendees- Responsible for keeping many young children focused on the task at hand

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

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