# Jeremy Simpson

> Backend Engineer at thatgamecompany

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jeremysimpson

Experienced Senior Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Strong engineering professional skilled in Python and Java.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ thatgamecompany
Jan 2024 – Present

### Sr. Backend Engineer @ thatgamecompany
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
Sky backend support, matchmaking and data platform infrastructure.

### Software Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area
Amazon devices - Frustration Free Setup (FFS). Enabling a frustration-free setup experience for Amazon-branded and 3rd party devices.

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California
- Working as part of the UMP (unified metrics pipeline) and DSP (data science platform) teams
- Working on graph algorithms @ scale on spark for use in recommendations and experimentation (ppr, ego network, triadic closure)
- Worked with Data Scientists to design and build a platform to allow users to validate and analyze causal effects of their experiments.
- Helped design and build a self-serve dimensional platform
- Designed and implement a pipeline-independent set of tools to be used for integration/regression testing

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, California
- Working as part of the UMP (Unified Metrics pipeline) Data Analytics Infrastructure team
- Working on graph algorithms @ scale on spark for use in recommendations

### Software Engineering Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View
Worked as part of the ETL Data Analytics Infra team.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Pinterest
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Worked as part of the black ops team to mitigate spam, abuse and all that bad stuff you don't want to see.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Pinterest
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Worked as part of the growth team to improve signup/conversions and increase MAUs and 4d28s. Worked on signup flow, email auto-responders and email delivery optimizations.

### Software Engineering Co-op @ A Thinking Ape
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Infra/DevOps. Worked on starting the first Hadoop cluster. Designed and built a query system using Apache Pig & Hadoop.

### Agile Engineer @ Pivotal Labs
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Android Development.


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22