Experience

• Amazon.com, Inc Seattle, WA May 2015 Present
  Software Development Engineer

  • FreeTime Developed a FireOS (Android) application for children.
    • Built a redesigned server-driven child experience from the ground up.
    • Tracked down crashes and performance ssues based on telemetry from production devices.
    • Maintained large legacy codebase, building process and tooling used by a team of 20+ engineers.
    • Led the adoption of Kotlin across the team, leading lunch-and-learns and ad-hoc training.
  • WorkSpaces Summer internship working on Amazon Web Services WorkSpaces, a cloud desktop service.
    • Wrote Swift to prototype experimental features for the WorkSpaces iOS client.
    • Fixed bugs in the AWS Console for WorkSpaces.
  • Kindle Unlimited Summer internship working on Kindle Unlimited, a subscription service for borrowed books.
    • Wrote Perl/Mason to render HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
    • Implemented business logic with server-side Java.
    • Designed and implemented a feature for customers to view and manage their borrowed books.
    • Redesigned templates for emails sent to millions of customers and A/B tested the change.
• Save Our Cats and Kittens Fort Walton Beach, FL January 2015 May 2015
  School Project Developed a web application for a cat shelter—Save Our Cats and Kittens (SOCKS)—as a part of a six-member team in a software engineering class.

  • Wrote HTML, JavaScript, and CSS using the MEAN (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, and NodeJS) stack.
  • Served as project manager for the six-person team.
  • Worked with the customer to design a database and user interface for shelter management.
• Arete Associates Destin, FL May 2014 May 2015
  Software Development Intern Developed a tool to analyze data collected by an unmanned aerial vehicle.

  • Designed and implemented a .NET application for the normalization of historical data.
  • Implemented image processing algorithms to detect minefields and other tactical risks.
  • Wrote code to score the results for accuracy based on various scoring metrics and data cross sections.
• Oqulus, Inc Gainesville, FL August 2013 May 2014
  Software Developer Wrote an iOS app for the visualization of data obtained from retinal fundus photos.

  • Worked with project managers to design a user interface to help non-technical customers understand details about patients' eyes.
  • Stored data retrieved from a web server using Core Data and a SQLite store.
  • Implemented a RESTful API using Flask to serve as the backend for the service.