Joshua Sellers
Seattle,WA
Summary
Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience building and scaling full-stack systems at Amazon. Strong background in Java, JavaScript, and AWS, with experience leading projects, mentoring engineers, and delivering customer-facing features at scale.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
Seattle, USA
07.2022 - Current
- Full stack engineer on the BEAN team - owned search CX and Amazon's fashion product pages
- Directed development of new CX for Amazon fashion page's product images, enhancing video and image quality for better user engagement
- Implemented new ingresses for partner teams through widgets in Amazon search bar, contributing to $100 million in incremental profit
- Project lead for updates to Amazon fashion pages for EU compliance work (met EU escalation deadline)
- Mentored junior engineers, facilitating their promotions and resolving technical problems to strengthen team capabilities
Software Development Engineer I
Amazon
Seattle, USA
02.2020 - 07.2022
- Led CX improvement project for Amazon fashion product pages, contributing to over $20 million in generated profit
- Enhanced CX and usability of Amazon's fashion product pages as full stack engineer on Softlines Detail Page team
- Developed and maintained monitoring tool for Amazon fashion page quality using AWS (S3, EventBridge, Lambda), saving 200 hours of manual checks for PMs annually
Software Developer I - Co-op
Fujifilm
Rochester, USA
06.2019 - 11.2019
- Developer on Fujifilm's Kiosk Photo Transfer App
- Updated software development kit to enable developers to integrate with Fujifilm's image printing backend
- Enhanced photo printing application's customer interface by implementing bug fixes and developing new features
Education
B.S. - Computer Science, Computational Mathematics
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Rochester, NY01.2019
Skills
- Java and Python
- React
- AWS services, CDK, and SDK
- JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
- SQL proficiency
- Full stack development
- Software architecture design
- Project management
- Unit testing
- Mentoring junior developers
Projects
Fantasy Football Tracker, React
- Created a website to track multiple fantasy football teams and reduced manual checks of separate pages. Utilizes the Sleeper API to track real-time data from fantasy football and gives the user a central viewing location.
Calculator Application, Java
- Evaluated advanced mathematical concepts through a calculator app (using the AI tool GitHub Copilot). Built a Swing GUI that allows for user interaction with the calculator to eliminate using the command line.
Discogs Script, Python
- Developed a Python script to automate the manual process of uploading a vinyl collection to the Discogs website. Utilized the SerpApi API to find album names from images of collection via reverse image search (eliminating manual searches for album names).
Timeline
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
07.2022 - Current
Software Development Engineer I
Amazon
02.2020 - 07.2022
Software Developer I - Co-op
Fujifilm
06.2019 - 11.2019
B.S. - Computer Science, Computational Mathematics
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)