Experience
June 2020 – June 2026
Sr. Software Development Engineer
Amazon · Prime Video
Technical lead for an 80 engineer Prime Video organization, setting architecture and technical direction across studio-facing content delivery, performance, and reporting systems.
- Launched Prime Video's studio API platform, establishing an API-first architecture pattern adopted across 12 engineering teams; grew the platform to 29 studio integrations handling 200+ TPS peak with >99.9% availability.
- Authored a multi-year API (REST, GraphQL, MCP) strategy spanning three organizations, incorporating direct feedback from studios and fulfillment partners, securing senior-leadership investment and establishing API-first development as the organizational standard.
- Led a cross-org effort to unify Prime Video's bifurcated content ingestion pipelines, authoring the architecture and coordinating 8 parallel workstreams across 3 organizations, eliminating 12 SDE-years of annual engineering effort across technical debt, operational support, and duplicate development. Migrated entire Prime Video content catalog of >8MM title parts to unified architecture.
- Built context-aware AI agents incorporating Prime Video domain and microservice knowledge. Enabled Model Context Protocol (MCP) in the API platform and developed an MCP server exposing internal catalog and operational data.
Apr 2018 – June 2020
Software Development Engineer
Amazon · Prime Video
Built systems measuring content performance and calculating partner royalties and payments.
- Drove the cross-team launch of IMDb Freedive, vending entitlements at 1,300+ TPS
- Reduced end-to-end execution time of royalty workflow by 90% and reduced system cost by $200k annually by minimizing API calls and redundant storage, and tuning database throughput.
- Implemented database sharding to eliminate a hot partition in a high-volume royalty transaction system, distributing writes across a configurable number of hash keys and enabling 100x throughput scaling.
- Designed a balance tracking and payment platform providing real-time aggregated balances for 30K+ content vendors.
- Mentored 4 engineers through the design and delivery of promotion projects, and 2 interns through successful internship programs.
Apr 2016 – Apr 2018
Software Development Engineer
Amazon · Flex
Backend engineer for distributed systems supporting the Amazon Flex apps and driver engagement.
- Built a full stack web application automating 1MM monthly bulk emails to Amazon Flex delivery partners, using workflow orchestration for reliable and idempotent delivery and supporting content templating and approval workflows.
- Developed a mobile SDK integrated into the Amazon Flex iOS and Android applications.
- Created in-app survey feature serving 1MM questions monthly and achieving an 85% response rate.
- Implemented a push notification metadata caching layer, reducing dependency API calls by 50% and service latency by 15%.
June 2011 – Jan 2016
Software Engineer
NuDatum Software
Full-stack owner of an enterprise safety-auditing web application.
- Ported a Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Microsoft Access application to a cloud-based enterprise SaaS platform using C#/.NET and MSSQL, serving 1,200+ company sites worldwide in 9 languages. Provided hands-on customer support and data migrations.
- Automated customer data migrations with a configuration-driven migration tool, replacing per-customer script customization and O(n^2) lookups with hash-based O(n) processing; reduced average customer onboarding time from 2 days to 15 minutes.
Education
2014 – 2015
B.S., Computer Science
Florida State University
3.78 GPA
- Minored in Mathematics and Physical Sciences
- Dean's list Spring 2015
2011 – 2013
A.A., Computer Science
Lone Star College
3.89 GPA. Phi Theta Kappa International Honors Society
- Magna Cum Laude
- Dean's List Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013