# Kerri M.

> Senior SDE @ Amazon

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kerri

• Coding in: Typescript, Java, C#, AWS
• Soft skills: Led technical teams, planned large-scale events
• Graduated: Computer Science + Business from UBC

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Present
Role: SDE 2 -> Sr SDE
Team: AWS Training & Certification
Status: 2022 - 2025
Used: C#, Typescript, GraphQL, AWS

Role: SDE 1 -> SDE 2
Team: Amazon Supply Chain
Status: 2017 - 2022
Used: Java, Kotlin, Typescript/React, Ruby, AWS

### Security Developer I @ Hootsuite Media Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Position: Intern -> SDE 1
Team: Security Operations & Compliance
Used: Go, Bash, Python, AWS 

Highlights:
• May 2017 - Spoke on a panel about security automation and orchestration with ReadyRoom Briefings 
( http://www.ajsnetworks.com/readyroombriefings/2017/5/30/ready-room-briefings-may-edition )
• Nov 2016 - Awarded scholarship to attend O'Reilly's Software Architecture Conference in San Francisco

What I did:
• Developed a tool that checks if any installed software in a server has CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) that are not yet addressed.
• Integrated an open sourced software to check if any IAM policies in internal AWS accounts have been violated.
• Automated a process to manage effort spent on penetration testing which surfaces better metrics to support team's KPIs.
• Set up workflow to transfer logs from 3rd party tools used internally to a SIEM tool, and create monitoring dashboard & alerting.
• Took ownership of incident response on issues reported from customers, internal teams & external reporters
• Evangelized security by rolling out an annual security training to the entire company and ensured everyone (from Associate to CEO) had completed it for meeting the compliance goal. 
• Assessed security risk on a 3rd party tools that was being integrated by the business analytics team and suggested controls to put in place.
• Penetration testing
• Threat modeling

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### Project Manager Intern @ SAP
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Used: SQL; SAP Lumira, Web Intelligence, Crystal Report; JIRA.

• Worked on the site engineering management team in the Products & Innovation Analytics unit
• Designed and developed 15+ analytical reports and dashboards tracking software development progress across various engineering teams in 5+ development sites
• Commended by managers for resolving data inconsistencies and coming up with creative workarounds to tool limitations, thereby satisfying stakeholders’ requirements and reporting needs
• Ensured successful roll-out of process changes by creating communications to engineering teams and updating project documentations (i.e. release timelines and training materials)

### Project Lead @ International Village Mall, The Henderson Group
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Chinatown, Vancouver, BC
Used: HTML, CSS, Visual Basic, Facebook API, Mail Merge.

• Led a team of 3 supervisors and 150 high school volunteers for a 4-day public event (Chinese New Year celebration and achieved the lowest rate of volunteer dropout (6%) even though the number of volunteers doubled.
• Took initiative to automate workflows, including volunteer sign-ups, shift assignments, shift sign-in/out, and  certification creation
• Demonstrated strong work ethic and tenacity through continuous promotions since 2011: General Volunteer (2011), multilingual Master of Ceremony for art exhibitions and mall events (2012-2015), Sales Associate (2012-2013), Mall Decoration Designer for Chinese New Year (2013, 2014), Event Assistant (2014, 2015), and Project Lead (2016 onward)

### Data Analyst Intern @ The University of British Columbia
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Team: Vice-President Research and International Office
Used: Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and 2013 . Excel

• Improved usability of a new centralized research repository by populating data and organizing view pages for public users
• Surfaced statistical insights about UBC research, company spin-offs and enrollment to Board of Directors by compiling 23 metrics reports using data collected from various departments.

### Brand Ambassador @ Inventa
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Vancouver, Canada Area
Part-time, event-based position during university.

Highlights include working as Ambassador at the Coca-Cola Pavilion for Vancouver Winter Olympics, Nintendo DS games tour at shopping malls, and as mascot for Fortis BC at Playland.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Combined Major - Business & Computer Science
The University of British Columbia


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22