David Prody
Gilbert,AZ
Summary
Highly skilled Senior Software Development Engineer with notable achievements at Amazon.com, including a revolutionary 20% speed up in AR Robotics frame execution and leading the design of AWS Robomaker's robotics orchestration product. Expert in C++ and cloud solutions, demonstrating strong leadership and problem-solving capabilities. Successfully patented innovative technologies, enhancing Amazon's product offerings and operational efficiency.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Development Engineer (AR Robotics)
Amazon.com
01.2022 - Current
- Reduced release process from 6 weeks to one week
- With a further reduction in team disruption from one week to 4 hours
- Introduced automatic pipeline tests and oversaw their addition to all Gemini release products
- Created a framework that allowed the single threaded Drake simulation to be run across multiple threads with minimal code changes
- This produced a 20% speed up in frame execution time when the first system was placed on its own thread
- Migrated Simulator to Amazons internal cloud
- Eliminating the need for each AR Robotics engineer to have a high performance Ubuntu laptop
- This lowered engineering onboarding time and reduced hardware costs across the division.
Senior Software Development Engineer (AWS Robomaker)
Amazon.com
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Lead cross functional team through design and initial implementation of an Amazon product to orchestrate robotics from multiple manufactures in a variety of warehouse/manufacturing environments
- Design included both cloud and on premise software stacks to support real time control needs as well as ease of monitoring and reporting
- This included real time sensor streaming over both high and low bandwidth WAN connections with fault tolerant caching service for premises with intermittent network connections
- Provisional patent(7924-53300) for a Heterogeneous Robotic Fleet Orchestration System used to back a yet to be release Amazon product.
Senior Software Development Engineer (Kindle Enterprise)
Amazon.com
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Lead team to bring "Your Company Bookshelf" from idea to beta release in one year
- Product was fully launched in 2023
- Coordinated work between multiple retail and business teams including payments, retail website, Amazon Business
- Received Patent(#11,544,754) for novel bulk buy solution that was the backbone of the Amazon's "Your Company Bookshelf" product.
Senior Software Development Engineer (Brand Programs)
Amazon.com
01.2017 - 01.2020
- Grew Brand Program team from a single team of 6 engineers to 4 teams of 10 each
- Lead development of the Brand Policy Enforcement engine that went into production in 2019
- This rules engine handled high volume (1MM/hour) insites and was capable of applying policy actions against any subset of a merchants catalog.
Software Development Engineer (Feed and Report Team)
Amazon.com
01.2014 - 01.2017
- Redesigned feed and report workflow to replace the AWS Simple Workflow Service with Dynamo DB streams and Simple Queuing Service
- This saved 12.5 million dollars per year in operating costs
- System is currently in production and handles over 1 billion feeds per week.
Technical Lead Engineer
Boeing, Training Systems
01.2009 - 01.2014
- Recognized technical expert in all phases of software development
- Assumed lead role of a hardware and software based trainer within one month of joining the program
- Implemented a systems architecture built on Boeing's CSF framework that allowed the program's engineers to more easily integrate third party models into simulation
- Created a virtual wiring harness simulation (ICM) that could read in data from the aircraft wiring tool and create and monitor the entire Chinook wiring book
- This wiring simulation worked with aircraft electrical model and simulated test equipment including a simulated digital multi-meter
- This saved hundreds of hours of manual entry and debugging
- Created a visualization GUI for the ICM data sets using QT and graphviz allowing Engineers to easily see how the data was laid out
- Piloted an Agile software team program that improved the engineering teams morale and efficiency
- Created a unit test framework that allowed for unit testing as well as automatic regression testing of each build
- Led push from Clearcase/Clearquest to Git/VersionOne
- Designed and tested CM processes and workflows for new toolset
- This conversion will save hundreds of man hours due to increased efficiency of daily workflow.
Real Time Simulation Software Engineer
Boeing, Engineering Development Simulator
01.2005 - 01.2009
- Improved design and code quality for the Block III Apache EDS and AR-RPMS programs
- Created UAV model that tracked and engaged OneSAF targets as well as communicated with Apache pilots
- Implemented SRS Voice Recognition Software for AR-RPMS for customer demo in less than 2 weeks
- Lead Block III IG integration work on Quantum Independence IG using a CIGI interface.
Embedded Software Engineer
Boeing, Mission Systems Armament
01.2004 - 01.2005
- Rapidly learned Apache systems software in a role as a software tester
- Wrote and modified C programs that test Apache software to improve readability and maintainability
- Received recognition for outstanding effort on ARC-201 radio program for Kuwait.
Education
Master of Science in Engineering -
Ira Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University
Bachelor of Computer Science -
University Of Montana
Skills
- Programming in C, Java, Python, Ada, OpenGL, Typescript, UNIX Script, SQL, STL, Boost, QT, and MFC in Linux(Red Hat Enterprise), Windows, and SGI target environments
- Designing Cloud based solutions that are scalable, reliable, and cost efficient
- AWS Services including DynamoDB, EC2, Fargate, Lamba, API Gateway, S3, Robomaker, IAM, Elastic Cache, and Elastic Container Registry
- Knowledge of Object Oriented programming practices and application of design pattern in software
- Extensive work in real-time distributed system including integration of COTS and Open Source hardware and software
- Experience in developing and debugging large multi-threaded application on multiple target operating systems
Timeline
Senior Software Development Engineer (AR Robotics)
Amazon.com
01.2022 - Current
Senior Software Development Engineer (AWS Robomaker)
Amazon.com
01.2021 - 01.2022
Senior Software Development Engineer (Kindle Enterprise)
Amazon.com
01.2020 - 01.2021
Senior Software Development Engineer (Brand Programs)
Amazon.com
01.2017 - 01.2020
Software Development Engineer (Feed and Report Team)
Amazon.com
01.2014 - 01.2017
Technical Lead Engineer
Boeing, Training Systems
01.2009 - 01.2014
Real Time Simulation Software Engineer
Boeing, Engineering Development Simulator
01.2005 - 01.2009
Embedded Software Engineer
Boeing, Mission Systems Armament
01.2004 - 01.2005
Master of Science in Engineering -
Ira Fulton School of Engineering Arizona State University
Bachelor of Computer Science -
University Of Montana