# Justin Hurley > Software Engineer at Gryps Location: Staten Island, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/justinhurley Hi, I’m Justin a Software Engineer. I chose this field because I wanted a job that encourages me to solve puzzles efficiently and elegantly, and pushes me to continue to learn and innovate. I find my best work comes from a perfect balance of pressure and room to explore. If you know of a role that checks these boxes, don’t hesitate to reach out. As a Software Engineer at Amazon, I designed, implemented, tested, and maintained services that support the talent management and development of Amazon employees. I worked with AWS, Java, SQL, and other technologies to create scalable, reliable, and secure solutions that enhance the employee experience and enable business growth. I collaborated with cross-functional teams, product managers, and stakeholders to deliver value to our customers and align with Amazon's vision and principles. I graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Washington University McKelvey School of Engineering in May 2021, where I gained a solid foundation in programming languages, algorithms, data structures, parallel and concurrent programming, and software engineering. I also had the opportunity to apply my skills and knowledge as a teaching assistant for three different courses, where I helped students learn and master the concepts and techniques of computer science. Additionally, I interned as a SDE at Morgan Stanley, where I developed a document categorization application that solved a problem of misclassified bond documents and improved the accuracy and efficiency of the machine learning models that extract information for traders. I am passionate about learning new technologies, tools, and frameworks, and I am always eager to improve my skills and expand my knowledge. I am also motivated by the impact and value that my work can create for the customers, the company, and the society. I am looking for opportunities to work on exciting and meaningful projects, where I can leverage my skills and expertise, and contribute to the success and innovation of the team and the organization. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Gryps Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States Software engineer on the Intelligence team. Tasked with building and maintaining the backend services for Gryps, which involves building and improving the AWS Neptune and OpenSearch powered knowledge graph, which leverages AI to provide insights on customer data. Day-to-day responsibilities involved writing code, creating tickets, architecting services, performing code reviews, and participating in the sprint process. ### SDE - People Engine @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Arlington, Virginia, United States Working on the People Engine team at HQ2. - Developed Amazon's onboarding and employee management services utilizing TypeScript, Java, and Python. - Deployed, maintained, and monitored AWS services, using the AWS CDK to programmatically create cloud infrastructure (IaC). - Managed ticket queues, led code releases, resolved production issues, and maintained software pipelines as primary contact during on-call rotations. - Designed, implemented, and released a dynamic React address field feature to the Amazon onboarding service, that allowed for custom fields to be displayed based on the user's location, resulting in higher form completion rates, and less manual intervention required to complete forms. - Orchestrated effort to bring the Outage Notification API service to production, allowing specific populations of users to be informed when there is an outage affecting them. The service used React in the front-end, and an AWS and TypeScript back-end, also included Cypress integration tests. ### Teaching Assistant @ Washington University in St. Louis Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater St. Louis Teaching assistant for Introduction to Computer Science: CSE 131 (Fall 2019) Teaching assistant for Introduction to Parallel and Concurrent Programming: CSE 231 (Spring 2020) Teaching assistant for Programming Languages: CSE 425 (Fall 2020) ### SDE Intern - Institutional Securities Technology @ Morgan Stanley Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 Developed document categorization application to identify misclassified documents and derive version number via an n-gram hash map word accumulator along with other identifying characteristics, utilizing Java on Spring framework and SQL. Solved problem of misclassified bond documents being inaccessible for machine learning models that depend on correct classification and version to extract pertinent information for traders. Classification system was 98% accurate on test sets, and classified over 4,000 un-categorized documents ### SDE Intern - Data Visualization @ CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Leveraging my knowledge of HTML/CSS, Javascript, and D3.js, I utilized pertinent HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C data in New York State and New York City to create interactive data visualizations for the End the Epidemic Dashboard, a website with the goal to disseminate important information about HIV/AIDS to relevant stakeholders of varying medical backgrounds. ### Research Assistant @ CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area Collaborated with content management team to help create www.etedashboardny.org, a website dedicated to disseminating HIV/AIDS epidemiological data to relevant stakeholders. Organized and updated data sets. Created charts and graphs to display new pertinent data. Wrote user surveys for the website. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Washington University in St. Louis Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### Organic Chemistry City University of New York-College of Staten Island Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 ### High School The Packer Collegiate Institute Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/justinryhurley --- Source: https://flows.cv/justinhurley JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/justinhurley/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20