# Michael Frankovich

> Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Search

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

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Overseeing various aspects within the Product Search space. Larger focus on our ingestion/indexing pipeline and our query-fleet control plane.

### Software Development Engineer @ A9.com
Jan 2011 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Design Engineer Intern @ A9.com
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area
* created a new build to improve relevancy for seasonal products
* redesigned an existing build to decouple it from various parameters to reduce the effort required to generate data for side-by-side (A/B) for testing the changes
* designed and implemented Perl libraries for Hadoop streaming jobs used in multiple production builds

### Software Design Engineer Intern @ A9.com
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | San Francisco Bay Area
* modified multiple existing builds to improved relevancy of search results for multi-generational products
* redesigned a legacy data mining build to take advantage of the Hadoop framework to increase reliability and scalability

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of Waterloo
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
* created libraries for PIC16F88 and PIC18F1220 microcontrollers to be used in solar panel control systems

### Software Developer - R&D @ Christie Digital Systems
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Waterloo, ON, Canada
* implemented local and remote TCP/IP, UDP/IP and RS-232 communication with multiple devices for the external software team
* created wrappers in C++/CLI to allow C# code to be called from unmanaged C++ code


## Education
### BASc in Systems Design Engineering
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-frankovich-4ba5b520

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Last updated: 2026-04-12