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Michael Kaufman - Software Development Engineer in Seattle, WA

Michael Kaufman

Mid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile and web platforms

AmazonUC San DiegoSeattle, WA5 Years ExperienceMid LevelWorks On-Site

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iOS-focused engineer who led feature development for Amazon Books/Kindle (e.g., Series & Story So Far recaps, Kindle Memories) and introduced pure Swift packages while building sync and content download systems. Also has full-stack experience (React/TypeScript + Node with REST/GraphQL) and strong AWS operations (CDK/CI-CD, CloudWatch, canaries, autoscaling), plus founder experience at GLXY.ai shipping an early hardware MVP (weight sensors) under tight constraints.

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Key Strengths

  • Led iOS feature development for Amazon Books/Kindle and shipped multiple production features
  • End-to-end ownership across feature build, operational stability, and post-launch measurement (adoption/engagement/stability/GCCP)
  • Designed scalable stateless APIs with efficient DB queries, caching, pagination, and rate limiting
  • Strong AWS production operations experience (EC2/Fargate/RDS/S3/CloudFront, autoscaling, canaries, CloudWatch, CDK, CI/CD)
  • Built maintainable modular iOS components to iterate under ambiguous/changing specs
  • Built ETL and event-driven data pipelines (Scala/Cradle jobs, SQS) supporting campaigns and advanced filtering
  • Startup founder experience; shipped hardware MVP under constraints to hit deadlines and gather early user feedback

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Experience

Software Development EngineerAmazon · May 2022 – Present
Software EngineerOpenText · Sep 2021 – May 2022
Software Engineer InternNorthrop Grumman · Jun 2019 – Sep 2020internship
iOS Software Engineer (Co-Founder)GLXY.ai · Oct 2018 – Feb 2019
New Technologist InternMicrosoft · Jun 2018 – Sep 2018internship

Education

UC San Diegobachelor, Computer Engineering (2021)

Awards

  • Best Use of SendGrid API – HackUCI 2018 (VeriPrint)
  • Best Project – UCSD CSE110 (Spring 2020) (Triton Talk)

Languages

English

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Michael KaufmanMid-Level Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in mobile and web platforms