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Christopher Wright

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Overview

I'm a bioengineer turned computer scientist with three years of professional experience. My bread and butter is the backend; designing and building serverless architectures on AWS services.

Work Experience

Software Development Engineer II, Twitter, August 2021 - Present

• Tweeting, mostly...

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Video Shopping, July 2020 - August 2021

• Architected and built video validation feature to catch defective videos uploaded to Amazon. Written in Java, and still in production, the lambda has evaluated over 2 million videos based on size, length, and completeness. The feature drove a reduction of the defect rate of videos shown on Amazon.com by 0.5%.
• Architected and built GDPR compliance for videos shown on Amazon.com. The service is written in Java using AWS services such as Step Functions, Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, and SNS. It processes between 2,000 and account deletion requests 5,000 requests per day.
• Worked with team members to deliver a manual review and approval system for Influencer’s applying to earn commissions on Amazon.com. Completion of this feature drove an immediate ingress of 2,000 videos to our catalog, and the approval of 300 influencers.

Software Development Engineer, Bright Machines, March 2019 - July 2020

• Created recipe management service (code to control the behavior of the machine). Utilized TypeScript, SQLite, and Swagger.
• Built and maintained tooling for driver developers. Primary use case enabled code generation of repositories.
• Designed and implemented a topology service. The service enables CRUD operations on the organization of machines in factories using GraphQL.
• Developed a driver in Structured Text and C# to enable usage of a pneumatic gripper.

Software Development Engineering Intern, Trainiac, Summer 2017

• Implemented referral program for personal trainers which allowed a trainer to refer their own clients for a cash bonus. Owned both design and implementation. Technologies included Mongo, JavaScript, and Swift.

Education

I have a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Bioengineering from Santa Clara University. Some of my favorite classes were Cryptography, Theory of Algorithms, and Biomaterials. I designed a device to reduce rate of hip dislocations following total hip replacement surgery for my senior design project.