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Zachary Dodge

Front End Engineer II at AWS

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Zachary Dodge

Front End Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

As a Front End Engineer II at Amazon Web Services with a Masters in Mathematics, I have 9+ years of experience in programming and engineering. I have designed and implemented crucial features for a website with tens of thousands of daily active users, including creation of a feature flag service, implementing smarter website routing logic, decreasing unit test time and development server startup time by 60% and 50% and continuous integration and deployment for micro-frontend packages.

Tech

HTML5

Git

React

Typescript

CSS

AWS CloudFront

AWS Lambda

AWS

GraphQL

SQL

Python

Rust

Haskell

C/C++

Experience

Amazon Web Services

Front End Engineer II

August 2021 - Present
  • Designed and implemented a feature framework for a website with thousands of users
  • Implemented and used a feature flag framework for releasing dark mode for thousands of users
  • Implemented smarter front-end routing logic to save 98% bandwidth on consecutive page loads
  • Decreased unit test time for our website by 60% overall
  • Decreased development server startup time by 50%
  • Designed and implemented initial availability monitoring for an adjacent team
  • Developed several front-end modules and components exposing information used by several hundred users per day
  • Lead work to fix search results empowering several thousand users per day
  • Designed and implemented a micro-frontend architecture for an internal service now extrapolated and used by 11 other tools
  • Designed and implemented components exposing a unique view into data used by several hundred users per day
  • Designed and implemented test automation for our micro-frontend packages
Cornerstone Systems Northwest Inc

Software Developer

May 2019 - August 2021
  • Designed and implemented an architecture for a survey web application
  • Designed visuals for the United States Preventative Services Task Force 2020 recommendation publication
  • Updated and maintained the Tobacco Policy Effects site: https://tobaccopolicyeffects.org/
Total Recall Inc

Software Developer

June 2011 - September 2015
  • Designed, installed, tested, and maintained various software systems
  • Programs created helped Total Recall Inc be more efficient and provided a better service for the customers
  • Clearly and regularly communicated with management and technical support colleagues
  • Tested, maintained and recommended software improvements to ensure strong functionality and optimization
  • Independently installed, customized and integrated commercial software packages
  • Facilitated root cause analysis of system issues
  • Worked with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing code and/or perform unit testing
  • Identified ideas to improve system performance
  • Resolved complex technical design issues

Education

Western Washington University

Master of Science - Mathematics

2017 - 2019
Western Washington University

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics

2015 - 2017
Tacoma Community College

Associate of Science

2013 - 2015