Hi, I'm Will! 👋🏻

I'm just a simple nerd trying to blog my opinions on the internets.

I'm always learning something new and love sharing my passion with friends and coworkers or (reluctantly) my wife ;).

I have an odd set of technical skills and a non-traditional way of stumbling into the FAANG world. My hope is to contribute back as much I can to help others like myself!

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Work Experience
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  • Jun2023 - Current
    Amazon
    SysDE II

    The AV Products team designs the in-room meeting experience at Amazon, an over 400 million investment, to connect Amazonian’s around the world.

    • Worked with AWS AppSec team to onboard 3rd party cloud vendors for internal use
    • Created a Call Quality Log API to collect millions of logs & room analytics from AV hardware devices for dashboard reports (CDK + python + typescript). IT Ops teams now rely on this data for fleet health reporting and has given them the ability to troubleshoot technical call issues 98% faster querying for call logs in a unified database.
    • Collaborated with IT support & leadership to create a CLI tool to automate tasks with third party cloud API systems. Worked with the vendor directly to improve their APIs and docs.
    • Collaborate with vendors on testing hardware products for conference rooms, bug escalations and roadmaps for future features.
    • Document everything. Threat models, tutorials, wikis, change management processes etc.
  • Apr2021 - Jun2023
    Amazon
    SysDE II

    Provide Telecom services to over a million Amazon employees, managing a global fleet of linux servers, databases and phone hardware.

    • Role included daily usage of AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, ECS, DynamoDb, RDS, Redshift, ElasticSearch, Route53, ALB/NLB, and cloudwatch alarming
    • System design, CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure as code (Cloudformation, AWS CDK) and operational support of our systems
    • Design secure system networks using mTLS/SRTP for SIP based software or devices
    • Create or maintain full stack web applications for our customers (React frontend)
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