Edon Ameti
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Education
Computer Science
University of Washington - M.S.
2013 - 2015
Focus: distributed systemsComputer Science
University of Texas at Austin - B.S.
2009 - 2013
Graduated with honorsExperience
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 averagedeploy 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
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Volunteer instructor for a local nonprofit teaching introductory programming to career changers.
SELECTED PROJECTS
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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.