Amazon Robotics

After spending most of 2023 pursuing my start up turned passion project Living Ancestry, it was time to return to the industry. In February 2024, I joined Amazon as a contractor within the Amazon Robotics Team, specifically working on the Vulcan project. My role focused on backend engineering with an emphasis on redesigning and creating new microservices to support the organization's goals.

My primary project was to create and develop an integration testing framework to validate the correctness of services within Amazon Robotics. Leveraging Docker Compose and internal tools, this framework ensured that new code maintained compatibility with existing systems. Key testing scenarios included:

• Validation of individual service functionality.
• End-to-end flow from data ingestion to item delivery.
• Ensuring no existing test cases were broken by new changes.

The testing framework was seamlessly integrated into Amazon's CI/CD pipelines using AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). I delivered a custom CDK construct to automatically trigger the testing framework whenever changes were made to relevant pipeline packages. This ensured confidence in deploying updates to production without service interruptions.

Working in the Amazon Robotics Team provided me with invaluable experience in:

• Designing scalable microservices.
• Building robust integration testing solutions.
• Enhancing deployment pipelines for reliability and efficiency.

Overall, my time at Amazon allowed me to strengthen my backend engineering expertise while contributing to innovative solutions in a high-impact domain.