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Edon Ameti

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Education

Computer Science

University of Washington - M.S.

2013 - 2015

Focus: distributed systems

Computer Science

University of Texas at Austin - B.S.

2009 - 2013

Graduated with honors

Experience

Northwind Technologies

Senior Software Engineer

March 2021 - Present

San Francisco, CA
Led the decomposition of a 900k-line Java monolith into 14 independently deployable services, reducing average
deploy time from 45 minutes to under 7.
Designed an event-driven order pipeline on Kafka processing 12k messages per second at peak with exactly-once
semantics.
Introduced structured tracing across the platform, cutting mean time to resolution for production incidents from 90 minutes to 22.
Reduced annual AWS spend by roughly 1.4M through rightsizing, spot fleet adoption, and query-level optimization
of the reporting database.
Mentored six engineers, three of whom were promoted within two review cycles.

Contoso Data Systems

Software Engineer II

June 2018 - February 2021

Seattle, WA
Built the multi-tenant billing service handling 3M invoices monthly, with idempotent retries and full audit history.
Migrated the primary datastore from MySQL to PostgreSQL with zero customer-visible downtime using dual-write
and backfill verification.
Owned the public API, growing external integrations from 40 to 310 partners while keeping p99 latency below
180ms.
Authored the internal API design guide still used across the engineering organization.

Fabrikam Labs

Software Engineer

July 2016 - May 2018

Austin, TX
Developed React and TypeScript dashboards used daily by 2,000 internal operations staff.
Implemented a caching layer that reduced average dashboard load time from 4.1s to 700ms.
Wrote the automated regression suite that raised release confidence and cut manual QA time by half.

Bluepeak Software

Junior Developer

August 2015 - June 2016

Austin, TX
Maintained legacy PHP services while incrementally porting endpoints to a Node.js gateway.
Automated nightly data reconciliation, eliminating a recurring four-hour manual process.

Skills

Java

Go

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Spring Boot

Node.js/Express

gRPC

GraphQL

REST

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Redis

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Snowflake

AWS (EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda)

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

observability

load testing

incident response

code review

Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

2023 -

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

2022 -

Northwind Engineering Excellence Award

2023 -

Speaker, KafkaSummit 2022 - "Exactly-Once Without the Headache"

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Languages

English

Native or Bilingual proficiency

Spanish

Professional working proficiency

Hobbies

long-distance cycling

analog photography

ADDITIONAL

  • Volunteer instructor for a local nonprofit teaching introductory programming to career changers.

SELECTED PROJECTS

  • Ledgerly - Open Source Double-Entry Accounting Engine Go, PostgreSQL, gRPC | 3.4k GitHub stars A transaction engine with strict double-entry guarantees and a pluggable reporting layer. Used in production by several small fintech teams. Tracewell - Lightweight Distributed Tracing Collector Java, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes A low-overhead collector designed for teams that need span sampling without running a full observability stack.