# Nicholas Privitera

> Software Engineer at Amazon

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicholasprivitera

Hi! I'm a software engineer at Amazon with more than 6 years of experience building backend, cloud-native applications. Outside of work, I like to spend time mentoring and working on coding side projects. In my free time, I enjoy traveling, hiking, and reading nonfiction.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Security @ Amazon
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, CA
Currently building a security agent to conduct context-based secure code reviews for software applications at Amazon.

Past accomplishments:
• Architected an event-driven security automation system that continuously validates the security compliance posture of over 100K applications by ingesting code and infrastructure scan results, eliminating a full day of manual scans per review and accelerating the delivery of secure applications
• Drove the development of Kotlin-based AWS Lambda functions that process scan results and deliver them to Amazon’s security review platform, partnering with infrastructure scanning and security review teams to enable a cross-service integration that provides engineers with real-time visibility into their applications’ security posture
• Defined and led execution of the integration testing and CI/CD strategy for a distributed, asynchronous security automation system, implementing critical tests and delegating others to ensure continuous integration of all workflows before production deployment
• Established a reusable Infrastructure-as-Code library in CDK that encapsulates AWS services into secure-by-default event-driven architecture patterns, reducing infrastructure code, enforcing data security, and enabling developers to focus on system architecture over infrastructure details

### Software Development Engineer II, Amazon Devices @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
• Migrated a Java and Spring backend service to cloud-native AWS, reducing infrastructure maintenance burden and improving service scalability; containerized the service on Docker, implemented container orchestration with Elastic Container Service (ECS), and provisioned the resources with CDK and CloudFormation
• Enabled real-time observability and alerting for back-end services by building CDK-managed CloudWatch metrics, dashboards, and alarms, giving developers visibility into API latency and errors and reducing mean time to detect and resolve system issues
• Re-engineered the Device Costing application UI using React and TypeScript to enable collaborative data input from supply chain managers, reducing offline coordination time and simplifying the data input experience
• Developed a REST API which automatically syncs and transforms hardware engineers’ published designs to Amazon Devices’ supply chain management software

### Software Development Engineer I, Amazon Devices @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
• Designed and led the implementation of a role-based access control platform supporting 5,000+ users across the Devices organization, consolidating fragmented authorization logic and reducing time-to-launch for new applications
• Built microservices to abstract Amazon’s internal authorization platform and enable access control based on supply chain roles; developed frontend pages in React to provide access control capabilities to supply chain program managers
• Presented new features and wrote documentation on an internal wiki, facilitating feature adoption by 5 supply chain application development teams in the organization

### Coding Instructor @ MVCode
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Mateo, California, United States
• Introduced students ages 6-15 to programming and game development
• Supervised and assisted students as they completed project-based curricula in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Unity
• Monitored progress and set goals for students to ensure continual improvement

### Instructor @ theCoderSchool
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Mateo, California, United States
• Educated students ages 8-15 in the fundamentals of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Python
• Guided students through the creation of personal websites and games

### Instructor, Bay Area Pathways Academy @ San Mateo County Community College District
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Mateo, California, United States
• Created lesson plans centered around the use of game development software such as GameMaker and Construct 2
• Helped students ages 10-15 build confidence and ability in programming by guiding them through the development of their own video games
• Drafted and enforced a disciplinary policy to maintain a productive and positive learning environment


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Santa Clara University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### High School Diploma
Aragon High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nicholas-privitera
- GitHub: https://github.com/NickPriv/
- Website: https://igotanoffer.com/en/coach/nicholas

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Last updated: 2026-03-22