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Damon Summers
Senior Backend Software Engineer specializing in AWS cloud-native data platforms
Columbus, OHSenior Software Engineer (Contract)10 years experienceSeniorHealthcare ITHealthcare AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence
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AWS-focused Python backend/data engineer who builds production analytics APIs and ETL pipelines using API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS, Glue, S3, and RDS. Strong in operational reliability and performance tuning (including SQL indexing/partitioning) and has modernized legacy SAS statistical processing into validated Python services with phased rollouts and stakeholder sign-off.
Experience
Senior Software Engineer (Contract)Highcode Tech
Senior Software EngineerSynkris AI
Software EngineerNetesenz Inc
Software EngineerUniversity of Maryland Medical System
Education
University of Maryland, College Parkbachelor, Computer Science (2015)
Key Strengths
- Designed and operated AWS-native Python APIs using API Gateway + Lambda + Step Functions + ECS
- Reliability engineering: layered retries/timeouts, edge auth, clear error handling, CloudWatch alarms
- Performance troubleshooting in production using logs/metrics; moved heavy synchronous work to async workflows
- SQL optimization via execution plans and targeted composite indexing (reduced query runtime from minutes to seconds; reporting job to <5s)
- Built Glue-based ETL with schema evolution controls, quarantine paths, and fail-fast data quality validation
- Incident ownership for batch pipelines: detected via runtime/failed-job alerts, mitigated downstream impact, and prevented recurrence (rescheduling, smaller batches)
- Modernized legacy SAS statistical logic to Python with parity testing, tolerances, and phased rollout with stakeholder sign-off
- Cost and scaling controls across Lambda and ECS (right-sizing, autoscaling thresholds, spend/usage alarms)
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