8 years experience in launching and operating AWS services and React apps to dozens of millions of customers worldwide. Amazon Bar Raiser with 200+ hiring decisions made. Mentor with passion for scaling teams using modern CI/CD best practices.
Senior Engineer part of the Early Access program for a new business division, building AI features onto Axon body cameras (demo).
Designed, prototyped, and deployed an AI speech-to-text API leveraging OpenAI’s Whisper model and an Azure-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
Developed the team’s testing and release strategy for the backend systems by building integration and end-to-end tests, monitoring infrastructure using Splunk, orchestration using GitHub Actions, and release and operational documentation.
Led the development kickoff and release/testing strategy of Amazon Freevee, a new advertising video streaming (AVOD) product. Set up React codebase, established onboarding and development standards for a team of 5 SDEs via docs and workshops.
Designed, developed and delivered the homepage, regulatory compliance features (parental controls, guest account CX redesign) to unblock our expansion to UK⧉ and DE⧉. Shared our success story on launching and scaling a new Living Room app at DevCon, Amazon’s internal Software conference.
Enabled fully-automated app releases across hundreds of device variants multiple times per day. Designed the automated testing strategy across Living Room SDK and Playback teams, developing critical automated tests, defining our team’s testing requirements, and built our CI/CD pipeline using infrastructure-as-code, AWS CodeSuite, and Cloudwatch. Launched⧉ app to 95% of Prime Video(PV)’s Living Room device footprint, to dozens of millions of US customers in 9 months.
Cut PV’s operating costs for Comcast⧉ and Apple TV⧉ devices in half, and reduced Freevee’s time to market from months to weeks, by writing critical code allowing PV and Freevee to share the Living Room SDK runtime.
Led interviews, debriefs, made hiring decisions, and led process changes to quadruple the size of our organisation in two years by becoming an Amazon Bar Raiser.
Launched Prime Video (PV) on ~34 million devices, including our first Cable TV provider, playing a key role in PV’s ubiquity goal, by designing, developing, and releasing the integration software on Vizio Smart TVs⧉ and Comcast STBs⧉. Earned a promotion to SDEII.
Resolved tech debt and code quality issues after device launches, by designing improvements and aligning with our dependencies to prioritise them, and leading a bug bash to cut our ~70 operational ticket count by half.
Reduced Google’s device integration time from 23 days to 1 day, by extending our React+AWS Java Microservices self-service portal to automate 4 steps and remove 2 redundant steps.
Ensured Amazon met 4 device launch timelines, by leading critical conversations with external partners on bugs and blockers.
Standardised our team’s microservice boilerplate, by releasing⧉ an opensource template to gather feedback from AWS teams and the wider developer community.
Built a product review platform used by the elite Amazon Vine reviewers⧉, a community of 15,000+ expert reviewers, to match with Amazon vendors seeking unbiased reviews.
Designed, delivered, and released a configurable profile page for reviewers, and a targeting platform for vendors. This included changes to Amazon’s Retail Website, Vendor Central, and a scalable backend to store the data.
Designed and implemented Android network monitoring solution for rapidPHIRE⧉, Phirelight’s zero-touch security solution used by Government of Canada, Canadian Armed Forces, Telus, and Enbridge.
Developed strong security concepts and best practices, deep understanding of the Android architecture and network monitoring resources.
Led data recovery and migration of 3 server racks from a secondary research lab to a highly-available, flexible, and resilient server architecture.
Led a team of ~10 students to maintain and monitor research workstations, computerised classrooms, and Linux/Windows based network services (DNS, DHCP, Directory and Printing services) used by >2000 students and professors
Exchange program awarded for academic excellence by Universidad Simón Bolivar.
Conducted research in the Advanced Network Technologies and Security (ANTS) lab for Khalil El-Khatib, PhD, and developed workshops for the Networking and IT students' Society.
Led a team to implement an Alexa skill that rewinds using subtitles as content check points (‘Alexa, what did they say just now?’ would rewind to the last dialog)