Amazon — Software Development Engineer II, SDE-I, SDE Intern
Central Reliability and Response Engineering (Dublin;
2019,
2020–2025)
Tech leadership
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.
Mentored 3 engineers through successful promotions to SDE2.
Individual contributions
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 top
author and reviewer in code review process.
Advent of Code (GitHub): Over 150+ solutions to problems between 2015-2025 (Rust, Python, Java, TypeScript).
YouTube Autosub Explorer (GitHub): Index and search dialogue transcripts for YouTube playlists with
1000s of videos and months of audio (React, Node/Express, TypeScript, FlexSearch).
jesse.ie: personal
website for blog posts and links to creative portfolios.