# Maxine Mheir-El-Saadi > Software Engineer II at Amazon Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/maxinemheirelsaadi As a Software Developer with 3 years of professional experience at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 6 internships in the tech industry. I am passionate about designing and implementing innovative solutions that drive efficiency and scalability. My expertise spans across Java, AWS services such as Lambda, ECS on Fargate, DynamoDB, and SQS, TypeScript, and Python. From Montreal, QC, currently in Vancouver, BC. Fluent in both English and French. Reach out mmheir@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2024 – Present - Designed, led and launched a new service for WHOIS requests forwarding using Amazon ECS on Fargate replacing a complex legacy system, addressing scalability bottlenecks - Led the implementation of a distributed, sharded auto-renewal service using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and SQS, replacing a batch job and handling 8K+ domain renewals daily. ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Designed and led integration of a new type of domains in Route 53 Domains, introducing a dynamic pricing mechanism and expanding the service’s market reach and user experience. - Built new APIs integrating with internal data providers for sending customer facing notifications using AWS Lambda, SQS and SES, handling a daily volume of 40k+ notifications. - Mentored an intern in building a new middleware to optimize retrieving domain availability with AWS Lambda, ElastiCache, and SQS, projecting a 2x throughput improvement. - Designed a new service for WHOIS requests forwarding using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, replacing a complex legacy system, addressing scalability bottlenecks - Collaborated in migrating 1 million domains to a new backend provider, integrating critical validation logic and ensuring seamless alignment with the new provider. - Took on primary on-call responsibility for a service supporting over a million domains, ensuring uninterrupted availability and timely resolution of customer issues. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Vancouver, BC, Canada - Automated a synchronization process between local and registrar information, enabling customer service to use it, saving the Route 53 team an estimated 5 hours per week - Designed and developing a tool to automate legal procedures followed when domains are investigated due to trademark infringement in Java and JavaScript using AWS Simple Workflows, cutting down the process’ runtime by 90% ### Software Engineer Intern (Shotgrid Team) @ Autodesk Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Architected reusable React dynamic drop down menus enabling users to select video clips versions and filter them by statuses and development pipeline stages and integrated it into the desktop application - Migrated legacy Qt front-end code for a menu allowing users to switch streaming media encoding to React which collaborated to improving the desktop application rendering performance ### Software Engineer Intern (Forge Data Team) @ Autodesk Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Montreal, Canada Area - Incorporated logic to transform arrays into a format storing only modifications, which increased the back-end’s performance - Added core preprocessing and querying logic in Typescript to the software development kit of the abstraction layer between Autodesk’s products and cloud providers, allowing compatibility between Autodesk’s software ### Software Engineer Intern @ nventive Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Montreal, Canada Area - Implemented controls for buttons and app tutorials utilizing the Lottie framework into Nventive’s Umbrella framework using Xamarin - Patched bugs in the company’s Uno framework - Added logging throughout the Umbrella framework to capture states and errors ### iOS Developer Intern @ Connected Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area - Fixed bugs and implemented new features using RxSwift for a major iOS application used to control speakers and IoT devices - Designed and built a service to update online and offline IoT devices - Developed and shipped a device discovery feature within the device set up flow - Enabled the device discovery feature that can be toggled within the app - Learned RxSwift, the MVVM-C design pattern, pair-programming and product demoing I was part of two programming one-on-one mentorships program, one for Swift and another for web development, each given by a knowledgeable Connected developer. Throughout my coop, I organized and hosted a system of mock interviews for students interning at the company to help them (and me!) practice their interview skills and receive real-time feedback from developers. Fun fact: I was part of Connected's soccer team and eventually named co-captain of the team! ### Web Application Developer @ Demystify Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 - Bootstrapped and designed the frontend and user experience of a web application form scratch allowing users to create cryptocurrency wallets, redeem Demystify gift cards and buy cryptocurrency - Utilized Pug, Javascript, NodeJS, Express and CSS to deliver dynamic content to view within the app - Collaborated on the creation of a RESTful API endpoint using Express to buy cryptocurrency using the ccxt library ### QA Automation Engineer Intern @ Connected Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Engineered a Ruby automation suite using Watir drops and Rspec that contained more than 100 tests for a web project for one of Canada’s largest food retailer - Interfaced with clients and team members as QA lead to provide mobile expertise on a weekly basis - Developed a Slack bot using JavaScript and a GLPI database to facilitate the management of QA’s devices ### Website developer @ Rodeo FX Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 I created an internal ecommerce website for the employees at RodeoFx using the Shopify platform. ### Website Developer @ Atelier Marie-Bourdon Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Montreal, Canada Area I created a website for Marie-Christine Daxl's cooking startup in montreal using the website Shopify. I created the website using a Shopify theme, but I also programmed some functionalities and elements that were not available in the theme. ### Quality Assurer Intern @ Breather Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Montreal, Canada Area - As their first intern, I performed functional and smoke tests on their mobile app and their website, and documented my work in Jira and TestRail ### Private Tutor @ Manon Caris Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Montreal, Canada Area I tutored my neighbor in mathematics and sciences twice a week from her first to her third year in high school. ### ''Au-pair'' @ Sandy Kenney Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Redondo Beach, California I babysat two boys, a nine years old and an eleven years old. I did activities with them during the day and prepare their diner at least twice a week. I also helped my employer with her home staging career. I helped organise her storage unit and I accompanied her to a few of her staging jobs. ## Education ### Bachelor of Honours Computer Engineering co-op program in Computer Engineering University of Waterloo ### Diploma of College Studies in Pure and Applied Sciences Collège André-Grasset ### High School Diploma Pensionnat du Saint-Nom-de-Marie ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/maxine-mheir - GitHub: https://github.com/MaxineMheir --- Source: https://flows.cv/maxinemheirelsaadi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maxinemheirelsaadi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-30