Jesse Ashmore

Software engineer with 5+ years of experience wrangling data, teams, and user interfaces.

Email

mail@jesse.ie

LinkedIn

jesse-ashmore

GitHub

JeeZeh

Website

jesse.ie

Experience

Amazon — Software Development Engineer II, SDE-I, SDE Intern

Central Reliability and Response Engineering (Dublin; 2019, 2020–2025)

Staff Engineering

  • Reduced cost-to-serve for new and existing front-end products across an organization of 30+ engineers; proposed and drove strategy to adopt a multi-tenant web framework, API access model, and shared component library.
  • Drove software development best practices across the organization through technical writing, presentations, and consultation (ADRs; front-end engineering office hours; testing; process adoption and standardization).
  • Identified and remedied business goal visibility and communication issues between leadership and ICs by standardizing processes for collection, review, and reporting of business updates.

Tech leadership and individual contribution

  • Mentored 3 engineers through successful promotions to SDE2.
  • Led design and productization of graph data system and complementary API layer (Amazon Neptune; API Gateway; Amazon ECS) serving core incident response and management teams for the Amazon E-commerce business.
  • Led multiple technical incident postmortems helping teams identify and close software resiliency gaps.
  • Championed documentation as a first-class citizen of software process; built tooling for data schema generation, exploration, and querying through agentic AI tooling (graph ontology and Gremlin query agents).
  • Organized and led multiple hackathons and professional learning weeks for teams in Dublin.
  • Accelerated team delivery and maintained high standards as a YoY top author and reviewer in team code review process.

Skills

Languages

  • Java
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Python
  • Rust
  • SQL
  • Gremlin Query Language

Technologies and paradigms

  • Graph databases (Amazon Neptune, Apache TinkerPop)
  • Data lakes (AWS Glue, Lake Formation, Athena, S3)
  • Time-series event systems (OpenSearch, SQS, SNS)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (AWS CDK, CloudFormation)
  • CI/CD and monitoring (deployment pipelines, AWS CloudWatch, reliability best practices)
  • Unit and integ testing (JUnit, Pytest, Jest, Cypress, Mock Service Worker)

Education

BSc (Hons) Multimedia, Mobile & Web Development — Computer Science

Maynooth University, Ireland (2016-2020)

Personal projects and interests