Amazon

Software Development Engineer II

Working on enabling billions of customers enjoy their shopping journey on Amazon, directly from Search

Software Development Engineer I

- Delivered an automated filtering and auditing system for Amazon's wearable products, entirely managed with a single infrastructure based on AWS CDK (Lambda, Cloudwatch, S3) with Typescript, as well as internal processing platforms.
- Created ETL jobs based on Spark, with queries being exclusively managed in code with Java and Scala, allowing to have unit and integration tests in an full CI/CD fashion.
- Finished with 1st place in GraphML mutagenic classification task, top 0.3% in product matching task with multimodal tabular data, top 2% in NLP product safety identification task, all of which were internal machine learning competitions across Amazon, worldwide.

Software Development Engineer Intern

- Developed a large-scale image processing data pipeline for fashion-related items by creating and managing AWS resources such as EC2, Lambda, SQS, CloudWatch, DynamoDB and S3 with the AWS CDK and TypeScript.
- Reduced by x60 the processing time of images by parallelizing the execution of Python jobs and taking advantage of AWS Step Functions and AWS Batch processing.
- Delivered an automated and asynchronous pipeline workflow by adding CI/CD as well as unit and integration tests.

Air Liquide

- Contributed to the retro-engineering of an internal reporting solution by identifying key business partners and analyzing 193 reports through Google Apps scripts and Excel processing. 
- Improved customer experience by producing fully operational documentation for a principal client software and by interpreting end-user’s needs with Google Forms and Google Slides. 
- Increased back-end performance by inspecting the frequency and time of execution of SQL reports.

Solution & Data Intern

Envato

I have done freelancing on the Envato platform which consisted in Photoshop actions and Designs.

Freelance

SDE & AI @Amazon | Simplifying software engineering, system design, and generative AI | Building Hungry Minds: the newsletter to stay ahead in software 👇

Tell me about the last time you felt growing as a software engineer. Really.

𝙽𝚞𝚕𝚕𝙿𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝙴𝚡𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗? Here's why:

We all face information overload as software engineers. 
There's too much content and too little time.
You have to stay relevant, but it's hard.

Right now, you're either working or taking a break.

You are hoping to get a dopamine shot from scrolling your feed.

You can find:

💡 A practical tip to implement
📚 An inspirational quote
😆 Something funny

And then what?

→ Scroll past it? 
→ Forward it blindly to a friend?
→ Forget about it in the bookmarks?

The harsh truth: nothing.

What you consume passively doesn't make you learn.

How do I know?
It was the same for me for years.

How do you stay updated with AI, stay relevant in the job market, and continuously grow?

That's the problem I set out to solve with Hungry Minds - a free weekly newsletter to help software engineers learn and stay updated, without the noise.

I'm doing that by:

1. Writing to you daily on LinkedIn to 40K+ followers and over 5M impressions last year
2. Compressing 1 week of software deep dives and trends in 1 free newsletter issue
3. Sharing my thoughts and learnings being promoted to SDE II in 1.5y at Amazon

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DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.

My career background:

I'm currently an L5 software engineer at Amazon in Madrid, working on core Search CX and Personalization. 
In 2022/2023, I delivered 2 successful billion-scale projects with multiple teams across different time zones.

I have worked with multiple code languages (although this doesn't make a difference), and with tech stack in the lines of AWS CDK, React applications, scheduling systems, backends with GraphQL, and simple AI applications.

My education background:

- I finished a Master's in Machine Learning and AI with l'Ecole Polytechnique and IPP
- I completed a Master's in Computer Science and Data Science with ESILV Paris
- I got a Master's in business development and marketing with EMLV Paris

Alexandre Zajac

You can’t catch fish with a broken net.

And you can’t ship a product with a broken pipeline...


When tickets dry up or the market slows down,
most engineers take a nap.

But the senior engineer?
They see an opportunity.

They use that time to build velocity for later.

While others wait, they:

↳ Refactor that legacy module.
↳ Finally fix the recurring tickets.
↳ Fix the flaky tests slowing down CI.
↳ Automate the manual deployment steps.
↳ Update the documentation no one reads.

Don't wait for the "perfect time".
It never comes.

The storm IS the perfect time.

Build the net now. Catch the fish later.


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