# Mercedes Allende

> SDE II @ AWS Quick Suite | Girls Who Code Facilitator

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mercedesallende

I'm a software engineer with 4+ years of experience in full stack software development and design on generative AI products.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
AWS Quick Suite

### Software Development Engineer I @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States
AWS App Studio

### Software Engineer @ Duffl
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Member of a three-person web development team supporting delivery service web apps servicing thousands of customers and employees across seven large universities. 
- Designed and developed full-stack (Django and React.js) features to ensure legal compliance, optimize employee engagement, and augment customer ordering experience. 
- Implemented latency logging framework and investigated customer web app latency issues.
- Collaborated with key stakeholders company-wide to assess feature demand and designed accordingly.

### Project Manager @ Clean Consulting at UCLA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States
"Clean Consulting aims to empower companies to understand and act on their connections with the natural world by making them aware of their corporate social responsibility and the growing presence of sustainability in the professional sphere."
With Clean Consulting, I:
- am leading a team to assist in understanding the waste emitted by Duffl (college delivery service) and its consumers and identify avenues for waste reduction
- conduct research, analyze data, and create frameworks to empower companies and UCLA to make sustainable changes

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Cupertino, California, United States
AWS Honeycode

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ UCLA Mobility Lab
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Selected through competitive Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Research Program.
- Member of four-person team within eight-person research lab.
- Only undergraduate in the graduate-level modeling team responsible for evaluating an innovative transportation enhancement strategy to improve system sustainability. 
- Building large-scale transportation simulation networks for LA County. 
- Calibrating the simulation model using real-world data. 
- Utilizing Python, Java, MATSim, and QGIS for visualization and modeling.

### Data Science Intern @ Paula's Choice Skincare
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Member of a four-person agile data science team responsible for the analysis and visualization of consumer data in the Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) marketing department.
- Provided ongoing communications and regular presentations to the 30-person DTC team and the Chief Marketing Officer showcasing completed projects and next steps.
- Employed Excel’s Data Model and Microsoft Power BI to visualize consumer data in dashboards (highlighting unit sales) for the purpose of  aiding the DTC marketing strategies. 
- Executed Google Analytics to effectively represent consumer site interaction. 
- Utilized SQL within Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to manipulate large data sets and improve data quality.

### Head Lifeguard @ UCLA Recreation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Los Angeles, CA
- Manage team of lifeguards and assist Aquatics Coordinator with monthly inservice training. 
- Lifeguard swim lessons, general public, lap swim, and aquatic sports.

### Recreation Assistant @ City of Ukiah
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ukiah, CA
[seasonal]
Summer: Lifeguard, Water Safety Instructor, concessionaire, and general City of Ukiah town event assistant. 
Winter: ice guard (first aid) and concessionaire at "Ukiah on Ice" ice rink.

### Academic Tutor @ The Academic Success and College Prep Resource Center
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ukiah, CA
Tutored elementary, middle, high school-aged children in math, science, history, English, and SAT preparation.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics of Computation
UCLA


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31