Scott Hazlett

Backend Engineer

Canada3 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Built payment infrastructure for Twitch Bits
  • Managed billion-row DynamoDB tables at p99 <200ms
  • 3.5 years of on-call experience at Amazon scale
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in high-scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentMicroservicesDynamodb

Other Skills

GolangSNSSystems DesignDistributed SystemsPythonAWS LambdaKubernetesTerraformDevOpsIncident ResponseRoot Cause AnalysisNode.jsJavaElasticsearchPrometheus.io

About

Backend engineer. Built payment infrastructure for Twitch Bits, managed billion-row DynamoDB tables at p99 <200ms, owned 3.5 years of on-call at Amazon scale. Currently shipping serverless systems on AWS.

Experience

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Senior Backend Engineer

Oct 2018Mar 2019 · 5 mos · Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  • Fleet management platform for 1,000+ IoT devices. Golang, Kubernetes, Prometheus/Grafana.
MicroservicesGolangBackend Development

Twitch

2 roles

Software Development Engineer II

Jan 2017Nov 2017 · 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Owned load testing for TwitchCon 2017 launch. Discovered over-sharded DynamoDB partitions before go-live, preventing production incident.
MicroservicesGolangBackend Development

Software Development Engineer

Jan 2016Jan 2017 · 1 yr · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Led international expansion of Twitch digital products from US-only to 7 markets (DE, FR, IT, ES, CA, UK). Primary liaison with Amazon accounting for new product integrations.
MicroservicesGolangBackend Development

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2015Jan 2016 · 7 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Launched Twitch Bits payment infrastructure. Designed integration with Amazon Identity, Payments, and Wallet services. Reduced AWS spend $11K/year.
MicroservicesGolangBackend Development

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2014Jun 2015 · 1 yr · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • On-call for GameCircle's high-volume microservices including billion-row DynamoDB. Co-led load testing and scaling for Christmas 2014.
MicroservicesDynamoDBBackend Development

Education

The University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2006Jan 2014

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