# Preston Sheppard

> Software Engineer at Amazon

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/prestonsheppard

I'm a software developer at at Amazon. I have extensive experience in Java, JavaScript, Rust, Python, and C#. When I'm not coding, I'm rock climbing.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Present | Cambridge

### Software Development Engineer I @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Development Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge
- Designed and implemented image caching and loading API in order to collect metrics and improve performance. Achieved a 200ms improvement in latency.
- Prototyped user interface for performance testing tool.

### Software Developer @ nference
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge
- Developed a natural language processing app which determines and displays the causal relationships between related genes and diseases.
- Created a pipeline to download and sequence 400 terabytes of human genome data using the google cloud platform.

### Software Intern @ Cayan LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boston
- Worked on a payment processing stack to add features, fix bugs, and expand unit testing using an AGILE development approach.
- Refactored unit testing repository to better follow standards for object oriented design and mock responses to outside API calls.

### Junior Developer @ University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | United States
- Maintained the IT departments CMDB.
- Designed and Implemented a full test suite to automatically test our builds using docker for continuous integration.
- Refactored a one million line repository into a five thousand line repository.


## Education
### Undergraduate in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/preston-sheppard-7b161b13b

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Last updated: 2026-03-31