Senior Software Engineer · Amazon · San Luis Obispo, CA

Senior SDE and tech lead building agentic AI, ML Ops, and Big Data systems at Amazon. Led multiple cross-org initiatives from architecture to long term impact with ML models across thousands of instances, Data pipelines processing over 1 PB of data weekly, and over $3B of Advertising spend influenced.

8+years building
at scale
50+person org influenced
1000+node ML & data systems

Work Experience

2022 — Present

Amazon Ads

Senior Software Development Engineer

Tech Lead for Agentic, ML Ops, and Data Platform
Amazon Advertising Partner Tech Org

  • Architected and delivered Partner Knowledge Base; wrote doc, spun up project, aligned across 6 different tech and product teams, got executive sponsorship, and created a durable pattern for knowledge sharing with Agents across the Partner Tech org. Built on MCP, Strands, AWS AgentCore, and Bedrock.
  • Rearchitected org's MLOps platform, cutting time to production from 3 months to 2 weeks and delivered 12 models in 6 months vs the 1 model in 2 years prior. Built serverless AWS Batch infrastructure scaling across thousands of machines, turning annual causal models requiring months of scientist involvement into weekly jobs with less than 1 failure per week across entire infrastructure. Made models CI/CD raising the quality bar and preventing regressions from sneaking in. Trained up scientists on new workflow, both speeding up and making their work more reliable.
  • Revived ML Ops initiative solo after it had sat idle for a year. Demonstrated impact within a month, and used its success to establish a permanent AI/ML/Data platform team that has grown to seven engineers. Served as the tech lead and interim manager, partering directly with product and leadership.
  • Designed and built a generic Spark data precompute pipeline which processes over 1 PB of data each week and has influenced more than $3B in advertiser spend in 5 years. Handles arbitrary queries, transforms, indexes, archival, and federated ownership of datasets.

2018 — 2022

Amazon & AWS

Software Development Engineer

Shipped greenfield products and foundational distributed infrastructure across Advertising, AWS, and Books.

  • Worked cross org to build Retail & Reporting APIs for Amazon Vendors as part of a goal to drive $2B more revenue.
  • Operated and developed core distributed locking and durable log services that power S3, DynamoDB, and SNS.
  • Expanded Kindle's Print on Demand to new B2B channels and markets, delivering special offers through Amazon Business and launched Kindle's first Canadian print cell.

Personal projects

Production Grade Passion Projects

Each project was and is being built as something I can use and share with others. They are all zero to one, by me, in my spare time outside of work. Every app has leveraged AI to accelerate delivery but not replace thinking and with each one I've learned something new.

Private personal finance

Charoite

A Swift native, fully featured finance app for macOS and iOS that executes completely on device and utilizes CloudKit for storage. Supports account syncing, transaction classification, budgeting, and family sharing. Now our family's personal finance app.

  • My first mobile app ever, 0-1 on designing, developing, and releasing an iOS App.
  • Architected multi-device, multi-user sharing utilizing CloudKit.
  • Utilized SimpleFIN Bridge for financial account imports.
  • Rapidly iterated with an on-phone workflow using Codex allowing me to make and test changes from anywhere.
  • Swift
  • Core Data
  • CloudKit

Trading card intelligence

Pack EV

A Magic: The Gathering pack expected-value website that turns pricing and pull-rate data into clear product comparisons and historical trends.

  • Built the full data pipeline and interactive experience, from Scryfall ingestion and validated EV calculations to card-level contribution and distribution visualizations.
  • Fully static web page, hosted on Cloudflare Pages for maximum performance, security, and zero cost hosting.
  • Imports of new sets are fully automated through agentic workflows.
  • Cloudflare
  • TypeScript
  • Agentic Computer Use

Democratized Reviews for Good

deinfluence.fyi

A platform for bringing real human feedback back to the internet. Each review focuses on relative comparisons and contribute to a global ranking based on a probabilistic model. Utilizes an Astro on Worker architecture for frontend and Workers + Neon for the database.

  • Astro on Workers Frontend
  • Workers + Neon Backend
  • Cloudflare R2 + Images for media hosting
  • Rich Moderation & Adminstration workflows
  • Bradley-Terry-Davidson Model used for ranking
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Neon
  • PostgreSQL
  • Astro
  • Cloudflare R2

Toolkit

Technologies in my skillset

AI

  • LangGraph
  • Strands
  • Bedrock
  • AWS AgentCore
  • MCP

Data

  • DynamoDB
  • OpenSearch
  • EMR/Spark
  • Athena/Trino
  • Neon
  • PostgreSQL

Infrastructure

  • AWS
  • CDK
  • Lambda
  • Batch
  • Step Functions
  • Cloudflare

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • Kotlin/Java
  • Python

About

A builder that
leads by example

I love solving large scale technical challenges.

That has taken me from core distributed services inside AWS to petabyte-scale data pipelines & MLOps platforms in Ads, and now agentic products.
I care about clear interfaces, thoughtful operations, and helping teams do their best work.
I believe AI is an amazing force multiplier, but that you need the right people in place to really leverage it.
I know that the best way to lead is with sincerity, kindness, and an open mind.

Education

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

B.S. Computer Engineering · 2018 · GPA 3.9 · Summa Cum Laude

Best Capstone Project of the year for scaling computational chemistry for Zika virus drug research.

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