Smit Patel
Seattle
Summary
Dynamic Software Development Engineer II at AWS Security Hub with expertise in native AWS and scalable application design. Proven track record in implementing robust features and enhancing service security. Strong collaborator with a focus on comprehensive feature implementation and test-driven development, ensuring high-quality software delivery.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer II (L5)
AWS Security Hub
08.2022 - Current
- Collaborated with engineers and stakeholders to build out robust features that are being actively used by customers worldwide
- Owned several key components of different features and established myself as a subject matter expert in all fields worked on
- Designed several distributed architectures implemented and deployed to production using native AWS applications
- Consistently active in maintenance and operational tasks to maintain the health and availability of the service
- Worked directly with security engineers and remediated potential security gaps within our service's configuration
Research Assistant
USC Information Sciences Institute
01.2019 - 10.2020
- SpaceAware: Dedicated to building a knowledge graph of satellite data to catalogue and identify anomalous behaviors of satellites in Earth's Orbit
- Collaborated with key researchers on the project to gather requirements and brainstorm solutions
- Built out frontend UI and API layer for the SpaceAware project using ReactJS and Python Flask libraries
- Developed novel visualization method to draw connections between named entities in large datasets of news articles. Made use of Named Entity Recognition and Fruchterman-Reingold graph layout to show connections across thousands of scraped news articles
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA05-2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA05-2021
Skills
- Expertise in Native AWS
- Proficient in Major Development Languages
- OOP Development Experience
- Test-Driven Development
- Web Application Engineering
- Scalable Application Design
- Comprehensive Feature Implementation
- Software Integration Testing
Accomplishments
- Key developer in the Central Configuration feature of Security Hub. Was a major contributer from design to implementation and am actively maintaining the feature today
- Aided in launching the new Security Lake service to AWS in 2022/2023
Timeline
Software Development Engineer II (L5)
AWS Security Hub
08.2022 - Current
Research Assistant
USC Information Sciences Institute
01.2019 - 10.2020
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
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