Steve Huynh

Co-Founder

Seattle, Washington, United States19 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

18 years of experience at Amazon.
Expert in leading engineering teams for high-impact projects.
Passionate about helping others advance their careers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned technology leader in E-commerce and Streaming Services.

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Distributed SystemsScalabilityAmazon EC2Amazon Web Services (AWS)HadoopData StructuresAlgorithmsMapReducePerlObject Oriented DesignPythonAmazon S3GitComputer ScienceSoftware Design

About

I just quit my job at Amazon, where I spent nearly 18 years, to help others up-level their careers. I know I can help you too. My mission is to inspire people who who want to have an exceptional career. Meaningful work, whether you work for a company, big or small, or even go into business on your own, has the power to transform your life for the better. All that's necessary is the motivation to do so (that's what you bring) and a bit of know-how (that's what I bring). I lead with tech because that's where I come from, but my content is not tech-specific. Whether you're looking for your first job, looking to change careers, or trying to climb the ladder to the highest rung , I believe the most important thing is that we are intentional with our actions and strive to do the best we can, for the benefit of our family, friends, society at-large, and of course, ourselves.

Experience

A life engineered

Founder

Jan 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Amazon

6 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Mar 2020 – Mar 2024 · 4 yrs

Sr. Software Development Engineer for Prime Video

Mar 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs

I lead the Live Services engineering teams to increase world-wide sports selection on Prime Video.

Sr. Software Development Engineer for Amazon Tickets

Nov 2015 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Engineering lead for Amazon Tickets from conception to launch
Architected and implemented core systems

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Promoted

May 2012 – Nov 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Engineering lead for Amazon Local from conception to launch.
Designed and implemented core systems such as ordering systems, catalog, and search.
Leader of several engineering initiatives across the Amazon Local technical teams, such as a general purpose search platform, notifications framework, efforts to move to continuous deployment and automated testing frameworks
Current lead of the Amazon Local website team, prior tech lead for the Business Portal platform, a self-service gateway for merchants to interact with Amazon and a key driver to scaling the business.

Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2007 – Jun 2012 · 4 yrs 6 mos

Engineered, from concept to launch, an innovative new payment method. Adopted and used by several million customers, this decommissioned feature of the Amazon.com had high transactional security and proved to scale
Created robust services that interacted with established Amazon.com payments, ordering and fulfillment teams
Employed natural language processing on large data sets. Created indexes, reverse indexes and other large bodies of content using Elastic Map-Reduce.
Implemented services to serve these data. It handled more than 1000 TPS under 20ms with four 9’s of availability during Amazon’s Q4 season
Created front-end features for customers of Amazon.com to purchase items, modify their preferences, and add/edit payment and shipping information securely

Software Support Engineer

Jun 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

Accountable for the operation and uptime of multiple distributed applications, including Amazon Kindle content transformation, Search Inside the Book, and Amazon Instant Video
Led large migration efforts and integrations to more-robust internal platforms, involving deployments to several thousands of hosts and coordination of multiple engineering organizations
Implemented production monitoring plans for large fleets of servers
Created automated reports and self-serving metrics for both internal and external customers