Promoted to Senior Engineer (Q4 2022). Currently architecting data processing systems for the Fire TV Catalog. Previously led high-scale full stack device to server delivery for Fire TV Partner Integrations. Championing agentic coding tools to accelerate delivery.
Continue Watching Integration - Built new partner integration for 3P streaming apps to add titles to a common Continue Watching row.
• Led technical design of system to collect watch data from partner apps and upload for use in Fire TV experiences.
• Led development of on-device Rust service to efficiently process data and handle new features on commodity consumer hardware with less than 3MB memory footprint
• Built a cost-efficient distributed backend system on AWS to process up to 300,000 transactions per second while handling sensitive user and partner data
Live TV Integration - Improved and operated the existing Live TV integration on Fire TV
• Oversaw launches of 20+ Live TV (e.g., DirecTv) partners
• Enhanced monitoring capabilities to identify customer-impacting issues in real-time
• Improved latency by 50% in Live TV voice commands “tune to channel" voice command by optimizing Java services stack.
• Built up developer resources including significant improvements to the reference app for developers as well as writing a step-by-step integration guide.
• Acted as technical expert for Amazon in negotiations with top US content providers (e.g., Netflix, HBO, etc.) business and engineering teams to drive adoption of integrations
• Raised team technical quality bar through individual mentorship, leading by example and building mechanisms to foster healthy engineering culture
• Mentored individual engineers leading to two promotions from junior to mid-level
• Whittled down unnecessary process to boost team productivity