Amazon Web Services
Software Development Engineer
Seattle, Washington
2017-Present
I started my full-time software engineering career at Amazon Web Services out of college. At Amazon Web Services, I've learned what it means to run critical systems at the scale of the largest cloud provider. The scale of systems at Amazon has given me a unique perspective and knowledge that informs every design I work on. Amazon has also given me significant experience in high-pressure operational events, driving resolutions, and effectively communicating status. This experience has taught a valuable lesson as well: always build resillient systems.
Serverless Compute
2022-Present
In 2022, I switched organizations in AWS to work on a greenfield project in AWS Severless Compute. This project has given me exposure to technologies like Linux container internals, container orchestrators like Kubernetes and ECS, and container runtimes like Docker and containerd. As a greenfield project, my work has consisted of engaging leadership across multiple organizations to understand business problems and collaborating with the team to define functional requirements and create design proposals for the system architecture. The highly ambiguous nature of the project has honed my experience de-risking and disambiguating portions of the project with a high-level of unknowns while still contributing to regular progress and delivery.
VPC NAT Gateway
2019-2022
I served as the technical lead on the AWS VPC's NAT Gateway team. This included delivering multiple public feature launches, including Multiple IPs on NAT Gateway, NAT Gateway Tag-on-Create, and NAT64, and mentoring interns through projects including Choose your Private IP on NAT Gateway and Private NAT Gateway. Through these multiple projects, I defined a new feature launch process to standardize our release cycle and make delivery timelines more predictable, which continues to be the standard for the team feature launches.
I also drove significant operational improvements and revamps across our entire technical stack. This included significant automation in our region build processes, modernization of our EC2 Control Plane integration, and expansion of our integration test suites. These projects were mostly self-started. I identified pain points across the platform, bother customer and business needs, and implemented solutions to resolve them. These improvements set the standard by which the team still holds itself to in terms of operational posture.
AWS Hyperplane
2017-2022
AWS Hyperplane is the Distributed Network Functions Virtualization Platform that powers NAT Gateway, NLB, and EFS. I started my career on the Hyperplane Control Plane, growing from a junior engineer out of college to technical lead, becoming a subject matter expert on critical components for the platform.
As a technical lead, I was responsible for creating or evaluating system designs to be incorporated within our existing components, performing implementation work, and delegating portions of the project to coworkers for completion. Publicly, this included the Hyperplane work to support the launch of UDP on NLB.
I also led the work on multiple internal features and optimizations for Hyperplane. I designed and implemented workflows to improve our utilization of EC2 capacity offerings. I created a system to maintain appropriate isolation between parts of our fleet to improve customer experience and reduce blast radius of potential customer impact. I also updated the internal processing system to improve health check propagations for AWS's Network Load Balancers. All of this work involved cross-organizational coordination and collaboration, requiring effective requirements and status communication.
I also briefly served in a management position as well, leading a team of 5 engineers. This work included task prioritization, sprint planning, status communication, career development (successfully promoting two engineers), and leading the team's annual planning process.
The Boeing Company
IT Intern
Bellevue, Washington
Summer 2016
In the summer of 2016, I completed a 3 month internship at Boeing as part of their IT organization.
Systems Integration
I worked in the Systems Integration department of Boeing's IT. While there, I reduced operating costs by creating a Powershell and C# application to automate the management of Windows servers. I advised and mentored fellow interns on their projects, helping them work through technical issues and identify design improvements. I also led a hackathon team that helped identify solutions for improvements to Boeing Factory processes.