Jul 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Worked on Prime Acquisition Core Services.
• Built and scaled backend services critical to Amazon Prime. Areas of ownership included Prime upsell messaging and signup.
• Spearheaded efforts to adopt modern best practices and improve code quality across our Java codebases.
• Reduced operational overhead by improving application performance.

May 2008 – Jun 2014 · 6 yrs 1 mo · Fredericksburg, VA

• Built e-commerce applications with Python and Zope.
• Developed and designed single page applications using JavaScript frameworks such as Backbone and Dojo.
• Led development of native iOS apps.
• Designed RESTful JSON APIs.
• Identified and fixed security issues in internal and open source software.
• Used agile methodologies such as kanban and scrum.
• Contributed to open source projects such as ZODB, Zope 3, and Python.