Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
San Francisco Bay Area
Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon.com
San Francisco Bay Area
Highly driven web developer with experience in e-commerce and document management/tracking. Seeks to lead engineering effort of new and growing web sites and applications using highly agile frameworks like Django, Ruby on Rails, CakePHP, etc. Strongly committed to software quality, maintainability, customer/user experience, and powerful simplicity.
Languages:
Java (J2SE, J2EE), PHP, JavaScript ( + jQuery, Yahoo! UI), Python
Frameworks:
Django (+Google App Engine), Ruby on Rails, CakePHP
Technologies/Techniques:
MVC, OOD/P, User-centered Design, Scrum
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)
Ported e-commerce widgets from Perl (Mason) to a proprietary J2EE framework. Worked on highly visible features (500K+ pageviews/hour, 40M+ uniques in Q4) providing a rich user experience through JavaScript using the Yahoo! UI library. Ramped-up in internet time with a completely foreign and technically demanding framework; helped train new full-time developers on same framework. Created thoroughly reusable, flexible and lightweight features to support a merchant-agnostic component-based e-commerce platform.
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
February 2008 — May 2008 (4 months)
Write and maintain PHP and Ruby on Rails web applications, tools, and scripts to support other departments within CIT.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2008 — May 2008 (2 months)
Created a business proposal tracking and management system in PHP/MySQL for the Pillsbury Venture Fund at Cornell (a part of the Institute for Hospitality Entrepreneurship). Worked in a team of four.
Main Responsibilities:
-Code quality
-Debugging
-Portability
Features Owned:
-Authentication System
-RSS Feed
-Database access
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2007 — February 2008 (6 months)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
BA, Information Science, Linguistics, 2006 — 2010 (expected)