# Ameen Askar

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ameen

Team member and leader experienced in software development, architecture design, and data science. Interested in solving innovative and challenging problems.


Java (4 years) – C, C++, Python, Scala, Spark, Spring, SQL, MongoDB (2 years)
R, JavaScript (AngularJS, React), PHP, Hadoop, HBase, DynamoDB, Apache Lucene/Solr (1 year)
Lisp, VHDL, OCaml, Scheme, Prolog, D3, Processing JS (<1 year)
Artificial Intelligence – Data Mining – Bioinformatics – Operating Systems – Security – Networking –
Algorithms – Computer Architecture – Digital Design (Xilinx and Cadence).

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2024 – Present | Los Angeles, California, United States
Prime Video

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Los Angeles, California, United States
Prime Video

### Technical Lead @ Edmunds
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Santa Monica, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Edmunds
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Technical lead role in designing and building a native advertising platform and an advertising product recommendation which improved the number of clicks by 40% due to the improved serving speed.
• Technical lead role in designing and building an advertising creative management platform and a creative authoring tool. The platform increased Ad creative authoring and trafficking speed by 50%, improved standardization, and serving speed.
• Improved Search Engine Marketing revenue reporting and helped in designing a budget allocation system. The improved reporting identified an ongoing misallocated SEM budget close to 5% of total SEM spend.
• Technical lead role in rebuilding the Dealer Reporting Tool to improve availability, data integrity, performance, exportability, and automation. Designed a scalable and maintainable architecture with proper monitoring and alerting, from generation to serving and various display options of the data. Also, led the team to automate generating tens of metrics in data warehouse.

### Software Engineer @ Edmunds
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
• Developed a stateless security library to manage authentication and authorization for various dealer tools.
• Developed new features in the Dealer Pricing Tool including the ability to price lease inventory with an automated update of lease payments based on varying daily, region specific, and style specific parameters.
• Developed and maintained new REST services for vehicle data and consumer reviews.

### Software Engineering Intern / Software Engineer II @ Shopzilla, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Implemented an object color detection algorithm for the classification system.
• Developed and maintained various features in the inventory system.
• Maintained and fixed bugs in legacy classification systems.
• Mainly Java development using the following frameworks/tools: Maven, Spring, Cucumber, JUnit, Selenium,
Jetty, Tomcat, JAMon, IntelliJ, Git, Jenkins, VoltDB, Oracle, OpenTSDB, and Splunk.

### Software Programmer/Analyst @ UCLA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Researched, designed, and prototyped a web interface and backend to communicate with OpenStack swift
cloud storage to manage large research data.
• Integrated a mathematical application for data exploration through an interactive python on the web.
• Prototyped a cloud of virtual network machines that can be accessed through the web using VNC.

### Software Engineering Intern @ RAND Corporation
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Worked on designing the user interface and relational database for an internal web application for text analysis
and systematic review.
• Developed and maintained various tools, visual and geographical plots, and data management system.
• Backend configuration and integration of natural language processing tools and machine learning.
• Prototyped integrating MetaMap with Apache Solr to store UMLS concepts for machine learning.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science - AI and Bioinformatics
UCLA
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering
UCLA
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ameen-askar

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Last updated: 2026-03-22