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Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
- Delivered cross-region cache consistency with a dual-write architecture and migration support, enabling large-scale regional transitions with zero customer impact.
- Designed fault-tolerant merging of unauthenticated and authenticated cart sessions, preventing cart-state loss and supporting a major service migration with >99.99% success.
- Launched reliability, monitoring and load-testing improvements for multiple customer-facing APIs, improving peak-event readiness, deployment safety and incident response.
- Migrated critical service integrations to secure authentication and encrypted traffic, coordinating a staged multi-team rollout with automated validation to full production coverage.
- Modernized internal dashboards and debugging tools and improved log traceability, reducing investigation time during incidents and production analysis.
- Led technical mentoring, including intern project delivery, cross-team onboarding and knowledge-sharing sessions that scaled best practices across partner teams.
- Resolved dependency risks, streamlined configuration pipelines and reduced manual operational overhead, improving security, stability and service readiness across environments.
- Enhanced the shopping cart's throttling mechanism against bot attacks, keeping the service available without interruption.
- Kept the service documentation and dashboards up to date.
