Jobs

(2022-present)

• Software engineer at Amazon Ads (Core bidding tech)
  • Langues: Java (mainly), Kotlin, Python
  • Infra: Lambda, ECS, EC2, Kafka (both self hosted & MSK), Kinesis, RDS (Postgres), DDB, Redis
    • My team owns ~10 services and have spent the last year migrating to a new tech stack so I have intimate experience with all of these
  • Frameworks/Libaries/Concepts: Rest, Jackson, Spring, Dagger, Guice, Jackson, Gson, Mockito, PowerMock, CDK, ETL, CRON

(1999-2022)

• Unemployed

Interests

• Finance
  • Traditional markets, prediction markets, crypto
• Gambling
  • Poker, sports betting, crypto
• Music
  • Kanye West, Lana Del Rey
• Movies
  • Everything, but see frames for an idea of what I like
• Books
  • History, philosophy, finance, political

Beliefs

• Working harder > working smarter
• Java and the JVM generally is great
• SQL > NoSQL (only bad schemas lead to scaling problems)