David Yanacek

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States24 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in developing scalable cloud solutions at AWS.
Led teams in building high-performance database services.
Strong background in observability and system monitoring.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and observability.

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Skills

Core Skills

ObservabilityDevops

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesApplication MonitoringC++DatabasesDistributed SystemsIT OperationsIndexingInstrumentationJSONJavaNoSQLPerlRESTRubySOA

About

I'm a Software Engineer working on Agentic AI at AWS. Over the years I've worked on a variety of teams at Amazon, including writing the web service client and server framework that Amazon is built on, automating website operations (host failure, scaling forecasting), Amazon DynamoDB (Amazon Web Services' high performance, ultra low latency, managed, NoSQL database service), AWS IoT (building a scalable PubSub message broker for enormous numbers of devices), AWS Lambda (serverless compute), Amazon API Gateway (serverless API), and Amazon CloudWatch (observability).

Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

8 roles

Sr. Principal Engineer, AWS Agentic AI

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Sr. Principal Engineer, AWS Monitoring & Observability

Oct 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 5 mos

ObservabilityInstrumentationSystem MonitoringApplication MonitoringDevOps

Sr. Principal Engineer, Lambda

Apr 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Principal Engineer, Lambda

Feb 2018 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Principal Engineer, Internet of Things

Promoted

Apr 2016 – Feb 2018 · 1 yr 10 mos

Sr. Software Development Engineer, Internet of Things

Mar 2015 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

Sr. Software Development Engineer, DynamoDB

Apr 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos

I'm a developer on Amazon DynamoDB - Amazon Web Services' high performance, ultra low latency, managed, NoSQL database service.

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2011 – Apr 2012 · 10 mos

I'm a developer on Amazon DynamoDB - Amazon Web Services' high performance, ultra low latency, managed, NoSQL database service.

Amazon

2 roles

Manager, Software Development

Jan 2010 – Jun 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

Managed the Service Frameworks team at Amazon, which makes the service and client frameworks that make Amazon's Service Oriented Architecture possible. On this team, we did everything from code generation off of service definitions, to transforming between protocols and data formats like XML and JSON, to a distributed throttling product to protect services from overload.