Jan 2013 – Jan 2021 · 8 yrs · Greater Seattle Area · On-site

• Amazon - Prime Video Personalization / 2016-2021
• Amazon - Textbook Rentals / 2013-2016
• One of two founding engineers that created, led, and evolved an image personalization idea from its inception to a product team that drove ~6% customer engagement lift over two years
• Designed and built an accounting system to shift a $10MM/year business away from manual accounting to being integrated with internal automated accounting services
• Without prompting, improved code consistency and metrics coverage company-wide by writing a standardized logging library for users of Caffeine caches that is now used in hundreds of code bases around Amazon from the frontend website to tax rules engine systems
• Consolidated work plans across multiple teams in order to maximize shared code and save months of duplicated development effort across the organization
• Designed for, delegated work to, and lead small teams of developers (2-5) to scale my capabilities of implementing larger projects
• Lead and promoted good software development practices by focusing on clean, readable code
• Strengthened hiring by interviewing an average of 1-2 developers per week

Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 · 4 yrs · Dallas/Fort Worth Area · On-site

• Designed, wrote, and oversaw use of a data extraction tool utilizing Python that increased the speed of technical document generation from Rose RealTime models by 3 orders of magnitude (days to minutes)
• Increased amount of scripted tasks by ~900% (from about 4 to about 40)
• Led a test team of 5 employees in organizing, scheduling, and running qualification testing
• Secret clearance

Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 · 0 mo · Richardson, TX · On-site

• Wrote Google question harvester based on question pattern popularity to gain a broader array of questions over parsing structured data sources to be utilized in a semantic Q/A search engine
• Downloading ~600K questions/machine day
• Utilized REST API with in-house tools to write bucketed entity-based search for a term/user messages online and seeing corresponding WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WEBSITE, and USERs
• Downloading ~300K messages/machine day
• Devised a standardized format for data storage and wrote a tool to assist programmers in translating their data to the standard format
• Created unigram spell checker for search engine with support for n-gram entity spell correction; was in process of creating a generic n-gram version
• Created patterns to generate questions and answers from structured data

Jan 2007 – Dec 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · Atlanta, GA

• Instructed first and second-level data structure and algorithm courses for both CS and non-CS majors.
• Designed homework assignments and tests.

Jun 2005 – Aug 2007 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Alpharetta, GA

• "Co-op Employee"
• Rewrote their entire automated test platform for the 'Sync' system
• Improved Automated Test Coverage by over 25%
• Worked with Exchange, Domino, and SQL database mail servers
• Created master/slave-based automated distribution/update system for in-house software to the testing platforms