j. estefan hu
github.com/estefanhu - linkedin.com/in/estefanhu - estefanhu.com
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status employed
Currently I work at Amazon as a Software Development Engineer II. On my down time I'm learning and building with my current projects.
Where am I located? The rainy and beautiful Seattle, Washington
experience
amazon
software development engineer II
seattle, wa
Sep 2023 - Present
Spearheaded development on business critical services that impacts over 3,600,000,000 users annually.
- Triaged critical tax software, designing and developing optimized solutions in Basic to reduce average query time by 3 seconds, saving over 4,000 hours or approximately $250,000 a year
- Lead overhaul of email pipelines in Java, improving accessibility by 15% for 3.6 billion notifications annually
- Upgraded 12 email template pipelines from Java to React and Node, unifying development strategies
- Spearheaded upgrade of s2s encryption ensuring traffic for microservices, moving from HTTP to HTTPS
goodway group
software engineer
New York, NY - Remote
nov 2021 - jul 2023
Managed and led development of data capabilities hub, which established new standards for both Scientists and Engineers to collaborate on business critical deliverables.
- Designed and delivered complete python infrastructure for the Data Science and Analytics team. Enabling both Scientists and Engineers to collaborate on business critical deliverables.
- Spearheaded development of multiple microservices across multiple teams, assuring ACIDity with our RESTful and GraphQL distributed systems.
- Launched and maintained open source tertiary React component library, allowing for unified component styling across micro front ends.
- Developed, evangelized, and led adoption of machine to machine encryption for microservices in the AWS VPC. By leveraging Redis, Nginx, and JWT we secured our distributed systems and ensured safed connections.
- Contributed to high performing and dynamic teams to deliver full stack solutions. Working hand in hand with end users to deliver user led value in every scrum cycle.
RealtySimple
junior software engineer
Anchorage, AK- Remote
apr 2020 - oct 2021
Designed, developed, and delivered multiple apps and services, working closely with designers, stakeholders, and end users to ship high velocity and battle tested solutions.
- Architected and shipped solutions that interfaced with multiple API's, such as Mapbox, MLS, and OAuth.
- Lead Development of backends services, testing and continuously deploying microservices and lambdas.
- Designed and implemented caching infrastructure with Redis and Golang.
- Collaborated with designers to ship multi page marketing website with React.
- Ran User Research and managed stakeholder expectations using figma, trello and slack.
Muse
software engineer
New York, NY - Remote
jan 2019 - jan 2020
Co-founded and managed technical functions of Angel funded University of Washington startup.
- Directed product design, development, testing, and validation
- Lead interviewing and hiring for engineering roles
technology
languages: Go · JavaScript · JTypeScript · Java · C# · Python · BASIC · PHP · Bash · Perl · SQL · HTML · CSS
tools: React · Next · Node · GraphQL · Django · Spring Boot · .NET
databases: PostgresSQL · MySQL · SQLite · Redis · MongoDB
cloud services: AWS · Vercel · Heroku · Firebase · Railway
devOps: Docker · Kubernetes · Linux · Git · Github · CirclCI · Shell
skill
- Substantial experience with Agile workflows
- Proven communicator, collaborator and leader