Responsible for developing backend systems that power the home feed of the Alexa Mobile app

• Hold weekly office hours to assist students with understanding conceptual problems and projects

• Facilitate weekly discussion section to teach and review relevant concepts such as server- and client-side dynamic pages, networking, Google File System, and MapReduce

• Collaborate with other staff members to refactor project code, update project specifications, and write and grade exams

• Developed a feature for the Alexa Mobile Android app focused on increasing user engagement and retention

• Attended formal design review meetings with senior SDEs to review system architecture

• Created a full unit test suite and achieved +85% line coverage

• Integrated with Amazon’s proprietary feature-gating system to enable a gradual rollout to customers in Fall 2020