# Morgan Carothers

> Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services: Elastic File System

Location: Aptos, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/morgancarothers

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Software Engineer on Elastic File System

### Tutor and Grader @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Greater Los Angeles Area
Grading assignments and tutoring students in the computer science, biology, and chemistry departments

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
Designed, implemented, and plumbed per-request metric loggers across distributed components of the Elastic File System for end to end request tracking.

### Research Collaborator @ NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Ecology Division
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Cruz, California
Worked with researchers from UC Santa Cruz and National Marine Fisheries Service to create an R package that assess which SNPs best assign individuals to a population without introducing high-grading bias and to identify distinct Swainson’s thrush populations and migratory flyways for the Bird Genoscape Project.

### Research Collaborator @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Cruz, California
Extracted DNA from coral specimens and prepared it for PCR; programmed in Python and R to help comparing how accurately surfperch parentage is determined using SNPs opposed to microsatellites.

### Summer Research Intern @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Santa Cruz, California
Compiled data from primary literature on the apertures and sutures of ammonoids and nautiloids; programmed in R to perform PCA to observe evolutionary trends in morphology after mass extinction events. Presented results at a symposium at the University of California Santa Cruz at the end of the internship.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Harvey Mudd College

### Science and Technology Intensive Path
Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31