Software Development Engineer II

At AWS, I work for a team that manages the publicly available EBS direct APIs. These APIs, which are called billions of times per day, allow customers to read/write block-level data directly to Snapshots. I implemented new features, investigated fault and latency spikes, responded to alarms, and made bug fixes for this service when needed.

A few tasks for this team that I tackled personally include:

• Investigated a resource leak that caused >$1mil/month in AWS EBS resource costs. I implemented a solution to prevent future leaks, and safely deleted 23,000 EBS volumes totaling 11 PB.
• Optimized code which led to a 35% reduction in average latency for the ListChangedBlocks API.
• Implemented infrastructure down-scaling policies which led to >$10,000/month in cloud cost savings.
• Expanded EBS direct APIs product into 5 new regions. Led a team of 3 engineers as we created pipelines, built cloud infrastructure, and deployed service code to support new regions. Designed and implemented automated solutions to streamline region build, reducing effort from 8 weeks to 3 weeks.
• Mentored 3 new hires as they onboarded with Amazon. I introduced them to the company, supported their onboarding, and provided technical guidance for their work to help them become successful contributors.

While working on these APIs, I have learned what software fundamentals are necessary to keep a distributed service running at high scale. We follow best practices to ensure that our service is highly available, and that we can quickly recover in the case of unexpected failures.

Cloud Networking Intern

At P&G, I learned the ins and outs of a large corporation working in the headquarters of a globally recognized Fortune 100 company. I rebuilt networks within AWS and Azure to reclaim over 100,000 IP Addresses that were not being properly utilized. I also developed scripts to automate movement of resources in Azure while ensuring the consistency and functionality of apps.