Sr. Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
I am an experienced software engineer all about creating business value, focusing my time and effort where I can create the largest impact. I am comfortable working across the tech stack on all sizes of projects and use agile methodology to plan and execute work.
Sole senior engineer for a team that managed all A2P protocols (SMS, email, push notifications) for Amazon SNS.
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Acted as project owner for a three year project to rearchitect all SMS-related functionality for the service. As part of this, I wrote technical design documents, drove decisions across multiple partner teams, managed the project-related work of four other engineers, ran security and operational reviews, and contributed a large amount of code as well.
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Drove consensus across the four teams within my organization to reduce the time required for global code deployments by 30% without reducing deployment safety.
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Ran an investigation across multiple partner teams that resulted in a 32% reduction of non-revenue generating workloads performed by SNS in one of our largest AWS regions.
Part of a team that managed all A2P protocols (SMS, email, push notifications) for Amazon SNS.
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Extended SMS support to 7 additional AWS regions, greatly supplementing internal documentation and processes around region builds.
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Created a new automated monitoring and alarming pipeline for my team, reducing the amount of engineering time required by 2 hours per monitoring change.
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Started a productivity guild within my organization, facilitating knowledge sharing between engineers and the creation of tools that automated repetitive manual tasks
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Designed, coded, and shipped multiple smaller features.
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Built a strong culture of knowledge sharing within the team, writing tens of how-tos, architecture explanations, operational runbooks, FAQs, and more.