# Ali Yachnes

> Senior Software Engineer @ Arnica | ex-AWS

Location: Alexandria, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aliyachnes

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Arnica
Jan 2024 – Present | Alexandria, Virginia, United States

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Alexandria, Virginia, United States

### Software Development Engineer I @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Alexandria, Virginia, United States

### Undergraduate Research Assistant, Semeru Lab @ William & Mary
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
Worked on research projects applying machine learning to software engineering
problems in a highly collaborative research environment.

Oversaw the data collection process on Amazon Mechanical Turk and wrote scripts
to preprocess this data in Python; trained ML pipelines with Keras and Tensorflow.

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Herndon, Virginia
Leveraged AWS services such as Lambda, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, and
CloudFront and technologies like Node.js, TypeScript, and React to develop a scalable
and highly reliable service.

Gathered software requirements and received feedback directly from customers
intending to use the service.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
William & Mary
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ali-yachnes-148220169

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Last updated: 2026-03-22