# Thomas Draxler

> Software Development Engineer II at Amazon

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thomasdraxler

I'm a software engineer from the Pacific Northwest. I really enjoy creating things and learning about the machines which impact our lives in so many ways, from controlling the user interface in a car to cloud storage solutions.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon
Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Developed a system to scale up and reduce the time it takes to launch A/B experiments on Amazon's product catalog. These experiments are run in order to improve the product catalog for customers as well as make use of cutting-edge technology (e.g. LLMs)
- Used cloud-based technology with AWS services such as Lambda, ECS Fargate, API Gateway, and more
- Deployed services and resources (e.g. DynamoDB tables and S3 buckets) using infrastructure as code with AWS CDK
- Make use of services such as DynamoDB, CloudWatch, and Athena for maintaining operational excellence
- Worked to develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated approval steps including integration tests and alarms

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Developed for modern front-end web applications using TypeScript and React
- Implemented RESTful APIs using Java 
- Worked on Amazon Scout to design, develop, and deploy features for full-stack web applications for managing robots

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Worked on Amazon Scout to design, develop, and deploy a full-stack web application related to tools for managing robots
- Implemented using cloud-based technology with AWS services such as Elastic Container Service (ECS), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), API Gateway, and Lambda

### Software Engineer Intern @ Lucid
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | South Jordan, Utah, United States
- Added features to the API for Lucidchart to provide greater flexibility when used for integrations with third party applications
- Resolved bugs by designing fixes, creating unit tests, and implementing solutions

### Teaching Assistant @ Oregon State University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
- Held regular office hours for assisting students with homework and answer a variety of questions
- Provided feedback and graded homework assignments and exams

### Teacher of English @ British Council
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Vietnam
- Taught English courses for test-taking skills and general communication using self-developed materials
- Served as a liaison between teachers and management to help resolve issues concerning teachers
- Led workshops and developed guides to train new teachers and help them integrate into the organization


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Oregon State University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Master of Science (MS) in Chemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Chemistry
University of Washington


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tdraxler
- GitHub: https://github.com/tdraxler

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Last updated: 2026-03-29