# Christopher Mitchell > Software Engineer II at Amazon Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/christophermitchell ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Coordinated and led the migration of the various Fire TV ad offerings (in total four different ad/creative types and their various sub-types across three different program offerings) from older internal server management to native AWS infrastructure as part of a company-wide effort for easier management, deployment, and scaling, becoming the core Subject Matter Expert (SME) for creative management cross-team within Fire TV. In collaboration with other Fire TV teams, wrote core functionality for saving, validating, previewing, rendering, and migrating creative/ad types, designed common packages to duplicated effort or code drift both across ad types and within different scripts for the same ad type, coordinated End-to-End (E2E) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for each ad type for UI functionality, moderation, migration validation, and delivery/reporting. Drafted and reviewed design documents, project trackers, and operational readiness reviews for the various ad type migrations and future launches, along with coordinating intermediate and final migration dial-ups for launches in collaboration with Product and other Engineering teams. Implemented fully Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment functionality for all owned Fire TV creative pipelines, and implemented similar functionality cross-services within the Fire TV organization. ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Aided in development and release of a FireTV “Self-Service” feature that near-fully automates the entire advertising campaign workflow, ensuring operation excellence with deployment of essential integration testing infrastructure of Native AWS APIs and React UIs. Expanded multiple Fire TV ad product offerings to ten additional marketplaces throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, working full-stack, to include React user interfaces, device and metrics testing, backend AWS REST APIs, and billing workflows. Optionally trained in and served as an internal app security certifier, reviewing internal applications that are deemed “Red” due to data sensitivity or vicinity to end users through design, architecture, and threat assessment review, configuration reviews, automated and manual security code reviews, and basic penetration testing, after which drafting various documentation of all known risks with severity and coordinating with the app owner to correct the mistakes to avoid any security issues. Trained as an internal interviewer, shadowing or reverse shadowing various candidates for the Fire TV organization. Completed trainings for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and actively worked with various AWS services such as Lambda, SQS/SNS, EC2, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation, ### Robotics Undergraduate Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California Under Professor Ruzena Bacjsy with Principal Investigator Dr. Laura Hallock, now Professor at UU: Applied Python, Pillow, Numpy, Scipy, and SimpleElastix/SimpleITK libraries to manipulate and perform registration transforms and optimizations on 3D ultrasound scans to segment muscles and orientate and align said scans for assistive technology, and implemented various optimization techniques to include memoization, dynamic programming, and parallelization. For a year post-graduation, developed multiprocessing software infrastructure and ran introductory trials with external biomedical imaging sensors such as ultrasound, EMG, and Acoustic Myography (AMG) to allow for real-time signal processing for force approximation with visual feedback for subjects to target desired force outputs in control systems. ### Linguistics Research Apprentice @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California Under Principal Investigator Dr. Myriam Lapierre, now Professor at UW: Parsed and phonologically analyzed raw audio and spectra of field data of the endangered language Panará with Praat software without any prior knowledge or exposure to said language in order to analyze the nasality and airflow patterns of speaker, and later manipulated and wrote various scripts for data processing for the end goal of generating a trained model of the language in order to allow for easier speech parsing and analysis ### Cybersecurity Undergraduate Researcher @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States Under Lecturer Nicholas Weaver with the Department of Computer Science: Tested and probed modern active censorship methods, including IP blacklisting, TCP reset attacks, and DSN request interception ### Software Development Engineering Intern @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California ### Electrical Engineering Graduate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley College of Engineering Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California As part of the class "EE 16a: Designing Information Devices and Systems I" Taught linear algebra and circuits to multiple classes of up to 60 students, hosted office hours and review sessions consistently throughout each semester, aided in exam design, debugging, and proctoring, and coordinated the homework logistics and grading for a class with roughly 800 students and 30 graders ### Tau Beta Pi CA-A Vice President @ The Tau Beta Pi Association, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Berkeley, California Welcomed candidates into the organization, took active part in executive council decisions, and led the coordination of candidate requirement completion and multiple social, professional development, and career events for the intake class of 40 students into one of the largest chapters of a nationally recognized engineering honor society. ### Student Caller @ Cal Calling Center Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley, California, United States Contacted various alumni from different colleges within UC Berkeley, networking with them with the end aim of soliciting financial support from them to the university, where I solicited and raised various gifts upwards of $2500 ### Science and Engineering Apprentice @ SPAWAR Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Diego, California Designed and implemented an embedded systems project with a Raspberry Pi, interfacing with various sensors and motors, allowing for remote control of a robot via hosted webpage GUI ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) University of California, Berkeley Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 ### Post-Baccalaureate Work in Chemistry and Biology UC San Diego Extended Studies Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Post-Baccalaureate Work in Chemistry and Biology UC Berkeley Extension Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Post-Baccalaureate Coursework in Chemistry Cañada College Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Post-Baccalaureate Coursework in Chemistry Mission College Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Linguistics University of California, Berkeley Jan 2015 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/christopher-mitchell-270b1611b - Website: https://cmitch.github.io --- Source: https://flows.cv/christophermitchell JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/christophermitchell/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22