# Dare Balogun

> Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Location: Arlington, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/darebalogun

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2024 – Present | Arlington, Virginia, United States
S3 request processing. Working on throttling, performance shaping, countermeasures and metering S3 APIs

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
S3 Replication. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/replication.html

### Software Development Engineer I @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Building and operating globally scaled distributed systems replicating data on the order of exabytes every year with the AWS S3 Replication team.

### Teaching Assistant / Mentor @ Kibo School
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Volunteer position helping students across Africa learn to code and providing career mentorship through monthly meetups.

### Software Developer @ Careteam Technologies Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Careteam is a digital health platform that enables patients and care providers collaborate on care. 
As a software developer my role is to write clean, robust and well tested code that implements user stories and feature mock ups using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and React.

### Teaching Assistant @ Carleton University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Ottawa, Canada Area
SYSC 3310 (Intro to Real-Time Systems, Fall 2019)
SYSC 4001 (Operating Systems, Winter 2020)
Explained difficult technical concepts to students and answered questions during lab sessions.
Assisted professor with supervision of group of 40 students and taking care of lab equipment.
Supported instructor with test administration, exam proctoring and assignment and lab grading.

### Software Developer @ Curtiss-Wright Defense Solutions
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Ottawa, Canada Area
Automated test procedures for embedded OS (VxWorks and Linux) and bootloaders (U-boot) using TestStand.
Developed and released production test software in Python to test a Datalink Processing System.
Created scripts to perform protocol testing for network switches using Spirent TestCentre in Python and Tcl.
Developed a document generator in Python to automate test result documentation cutting down testing time.

### Technical Support Analyst @ Carleton University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Ottawa, Canada Area
Day-to-day responsibilities:
-Provided technical support to Carleton University students and staff in using the Discovery Centre's 3D printers, instructional media technology, gaming consoles, computers and VR technology
-Administrative tasks including managing 3D print requests, room bookings and responding to inquiries in person, on the phone and via email
-Organized workshops to educate students and staff on, and demo the technology in the space

Project:
-Created a wireless display solution for the space using a Raspberry Pi 3. Managed the file system with Google Drive integration on OCaml and created a slideshow application in Java.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Engineering
Carleton University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Petroleum Engineering
University of Alberta


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dare-balogun
- Website: https://github.com/darebalogun

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Last updated: 2026-04-05