# John Solo

> Software Engineer at Salesforce

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/johnsolo

Full-Stack Software Engineer in Silicon Valley with 3+ years of experience working with Java, Spring Boot, React.js, Node.js, JavaScript, SQL, and AWS. California State University, Stanislaus graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Salesforce
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Cupertino, California, United States
• Built and delivered full-stack projects for core Tier 1 infrastructure services in Amazon Web Services Security, which managed SSH and Public Key Infrastructure for EC2 instances and service hosts
• Led multi-month projects from end-to-end, including threat model and design, implementation, and release for a Java Spring Certificate Authority service
• Delivered features for a self-service security portal project written in React.js, Kotlin, Lambda, Google Guice, CDK, and DynamoDB, which contributed to the elimination of manual code pushes for infrastructure settings
• Collaborated with S3 Senior and Principal engineers to diagnose high-severity issues for critical S3 GET and PUT APIs and wrote company-wide Python operational tools through an away-team model to aid the software campaign that reduced peak latency. Received recognition throughout the entire AWS organization 
• Created intuitive, inclusive AWS frontend consoles with React, TypeScript, and Cloudscape Design
• Designed and implemented a private CA lifecycle management solution in Java with senior leaders, which allowed for the first intragenerational rotation and prevented a Tier 1 outage from expiring certificates 
• Spearheaded innersource contributions for company-wide Ruby infrastructure-as-code packages that addressed an automation gap for all AWS builders 
• Key contributor to multiple global software campaigns for AWS Commercial, China, and Gov Cloud partitions and provided core infrastructure guidance and 24/7 on-call rotational support for legacy migrations, security risk management strategies, high-severity issues, and cost savings

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Enriched the UX for the Amazon Music help page by writing JSP HTML code in Java Spring MVC
• Diagnosed and resolved tail latency spikes for a legacy service by leveraging AWS resources instead of Java heap memory, which dramatically reduced CPU consumption and Amazon device client timeouts 
• Rewrote initial Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability remediation by onboarding to internal security libraries and protecting mutable endpoints. Enabled Music Subscription teams in other time-sensitive projects to reuse solution for new critical endpoints

### Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Developed and maintained full-stack features in Java and React.js for an enterprise platform that facilitated supplier management 
• Built a RESTful API endpoint available through an API Gateway with Spring Boot, which allowed for a chatbot to search for contracts and streamlined the flow of data from third-party platforms to clients
• Wrote extensive unit and integration tests in Jest, JUnit, and Karate, with quality PR checks in code reviews that resulted in an overall code coverage of over 90%
• Implemented highly-responsive metric charts in React.js and Sass that visually presented categorical data 
• Created and modified containerized Spring Batch jobs on ECS that processed large volumes of records nightly from S3 and third-party APIs to load into a PostgreSQL database
• Adopted a next-gen enterprise solution by modifying a Node.js GraphQL Lambda API and React.js application

### Software Engineer Intern @ Verizon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
• Built and architected a video-on-demand backend infrastructure proof-of-concept by implementing Python Flask RESTful API services for video ingestion and video playback
• Reduced buffering for video streaming by switching from progressive downloads to adaptive bitrate streaming, supporting HLS (HTTP Live Streaming) on iOS and Android devices 
• Migrated media files from IoT devices to AWS S3 with a CDN for reduced latency 
• Deployed services with a microservice architecture on Amazon EC2 instances to ensure maximum uptime

### Research Intern @ University of California, Merced
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Merced, California, United States
• Designed and built a MATLAB graphical user interface in GUIDE, which streamlined the utilization of a novel image extraction algorithm for lab members and collaborators 
• Eliminated the need for manual data entry by rewriting MATLAB code to parse data text files automatically


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
California State University, Stanislaus
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

### Associate of Science - AS in Computer Science
Merced Community College District
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/johnsolojoseph
- Website: https://johnjsolo.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22