Seattle, Washington, United States
• Developed the platform that served and rendered the Amazon homepage worldwide on all devices.
• Led mobile homepage platform migration from Perl to Java, which impacted over 1 billion weekly homepage requests, rendered content 5x faster below-the-fold, and reduced the above-the-fold latency by 5% for mobile app and 20% for mobile web. (Java/Spring, TypeScript, JavaScript.)
• Mentored a team of 6 former Perl/Mason engineers, 2 new engineers, and 1 intern.
• Improved reliability by building intelligent fallback behavior for service outages, an in-memory flight
recorder for debugging, and comprehensive performance, outage, and integration test suites (WireMock).
• Performed on-call duties for Amazon’s largest peak events (Prime Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday).