Ari Madian

Professional Experience

Software Engineer Aug 2022 – Present
Amazon
  • Designed, implemented, and deployed 7 data processing pipelines using Spark, Scala, and Python on AWS Glue, collaborating with PM, BI, and engineering teams to process billions of records monthly and measure feature development ROI, among other KPIs
  • Authored and drove approval of 3 technical design documents for a new employee listening service through design reviews with product, leadership, and engineering, one for React frontend architecture, one for Java API contracts, and one for a standardized data type model for the APIs
  • Led campaign to migrate my team's services handling 100k+ API calls/day from hardware to software load balancers with zero downtime
  • Led design, implementation, and deployment of customer onboarding automation features. Stack included AWS Glue pipelines, React frontends, Java backends which so far have saved an estimated 8 months of dev time each year
Software Engineer Intern Jun 2021 – Sep 2021
Amazon
  • Designed, developed, and deployed two experimental features for employee listening systems in fulfillment centers globally, collaborating with data and business intelligence teams to analyze user interaction data from 5,000+ associates per experiment
  • Resolved backlog items and implemented operational excellence improvements to enhance system reliability and reduce technical debt
Google Summer of Code Student (Intern) May 2019 – Aug 2019
Creative Commons
  • Made free and simple copyright/copyleft licensing more accessible to millions by revamping an outdated website with a focus on UX, accessibility, and educational experience
  • Created wireframes and UI/UX prototypes, conducted usability testing and accessibility audits
  • Designed and built a new website with Vue/VueX, Jest and Nightwatch for testing, along with i18n for internationalization

Projects

NZXTSharp | GitHub
C#, .NET, Serial/HID Communication
Open source .NET SDK for NZXT PC components with ~14.1k downloads on nuget.org and 53 GitHub stars. Designed efficient and scalable SDK by reverse engineering serial and HID communication protocols

Education

Bachelor of Science in Informatics June 2022
University of Washington

Technical Skills

Languages: Java, Scala, Typescript/JS, Python, Ruby
Tools & Cloud: AWS Suite - particularly Glue (Scala Spark and PySpark), S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, EKS, ECS + Fargate, API Gateway.