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Eric King

Shoreview,MN

Summary

Software Development Engineer with extensive experience at Amazon, specializing in front-end development, and scalable system design. Led the development of an internal Amazon interview scheduling tool which has been used to schedule over 9 million interviews. Adept at microservices architecture and fostering team collaboration, I thrive on delivering innovative solutions that enhance user experience and operational efficiency.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon
Minneapolis, MN
10.2023 - Current
  • Led the engineering team in the development of a new interview scheduling application: Hire Scheduling Tool. This application has successfully scheduled over 9,000,000 interviews since its launch.
  • Designed and developed a system for caching Amazon employee Outlook schedule data in the Hire Scheduling Tool to enhance the scalability and user experience of the scheduling application.
  • Played a key role in implementing a strict Content Security Policy in a highly visible internal website, hire.amazon.com.
  • Created monitoring dashboards and alarms to improve development operations and immediately notify the team of service degradation.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
Minneapolis, MN
05.2022 - 10.2023
  • Contributed to the organization-level migration process of legacy, monolithic software to microservices.
  • Designed and developed a system to send automatic text notifications to Amazon candidates for upcoming recruiter calls.
  • Designed and developed the user preferences UI for Amazon recruiters.
  • Deployed highly available and scalable web applications with AWS resources.

Senior Solutions Developer

Four51/Sitecore
Minneapolis, MN
04.2019 - 10.2023
  • Led a development team in the redesign and rebuild of the client's e-commerce website in the React framework. Successfully launched a new site in February 2022.
  • Promoted in March 2022, following the successful completion of the client e-commerce redesign project.
  • Designed a process to check users' carts for eligibility for potential promotions, and automatically apply eligible promotions at checkout.
  • Implemented a FedEx shipping integration to retrieve and display shipping methods and rates for users to select during checkout.
  • Worked with clients and colleagues to test and deploy applications via Azure DevOps release pipelines.

Business Intelligence Analyst

Deluxe Corporation
Shoreview, MN
02.2015 - 04.2019
  • Provided business leaders with a detailed analysis of business trends. Developed data-driven solutions to complex, strategic questions.
  • Performed a deep-dive analysis of customer lifetime value. Used an exponential decay model to estimate the average lifetime of customers to drive a more effective marketing strategy.
  • Created an interactive Price Increase Dashboard with Tableau visualization to model and display the potential outcomes of the proposed price increase.

Human Resource Analytics Intern

Deluxe Corporation
Shoreview, MN
05.2014 - 09.2014
  • Worked alongside leaders in Human Resources to uncover trends related to employee development and success.
  • Constructed statistical models to develop profiles of the most successful employees.
  • Presented analysis to Director of Human Resources.

Education

Coding Bootcamp - Software Engineering

University of Minnesota
Saint Paul, MN
03.2019

Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics and Statistics - Mathematics

St. Olaf College
Northfield, MN
05.2014

Skills

  • React
  • Amazon Web Services
  • AI prompt-based development
  • Java
  • Object-oriented programming
  • GraphQL APIs
  • REST APIs
  • Web accessibility
  • Continuous deployment
  • Responsive design
  • Microservices architecture
  • Code reviewing
  • Performance monitoring
  • Content security policy
  • Unit testing
  • Integration testing

Other Projects

  • SportMeet (03/2019), Leveraged MERN tech stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) along with Google Maps API and Auth0 to create final Coding Bootcamp project. https://sport-meet-c8c695609c43.herokuapp.com/
  • Model284 Sports Analytics Website (04/2016 - 01/2018), Built an R Shiny app for visualizing a player's performance at the NFL Combine relative to their position (https://model284.com/nfl-combine-tool/). Authored other articles and content explaining results and implications of data analysis.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon
10.2023 - Current

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
05.2022 - 10.2023

Senior Solutions Developer

Four51/Sitecore
04.2019 - 10.2023

Business Intelligence Analyst

Deluxe Corporation
02.2015 - 04.2019

Human Resource Analytics Intern

Deluxe Corporation
05.2014 - 09.2014

Coding Bootcamp - Software Engineering

University of Minnesota

Bachelor of Arts, Mathematics and Statistics - Mathematics

St. Olaf College
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