anthony santos

software development engineer

About

I’m a software engineer in the Seattle area specializing in large-scale distributed systems. I’m also interested in machine learning and programing language design.

Country

united states

City

seattle

Industry

computer software

Skill

java, software engineering, distributed systems, python, c, computer science, linux, algorithms, machine learning, eclipse, html, unix, microsoft office, css, xml, git, fiscally responsible, software development, programming, amazon ec2, ruby, perl, amazon web services, amazon sqs, bash, red hat linux, artificial neural networks, amazon s3

Experience

teaching assistant and tutor

carnegie mellon university

2012-8 - 2013-6 · 11 mos

Teaching Assistant and private tutor for Dave Andersen's 15-440 Distributed Systems.

software engineering intern

opower

2012-6 - 2012-8 · 3 mos

I worked on the web application team as a back-end engineer. My project enabled electric utility customers to view their energy usage by price tiers, displayed as a stacked bar graph.

research intern

carnegie mellon university

2011-6 - 2011-8 · 3 mos

As a research intern on the SimStudent project, I conducted computer learning simulations, streamlined the simulation workflow to use oracle-derived solutions, and made adjustments to the core learning code.

intern

world omni financial corp

2008-5 - 2008-8 · 4 mos

Summer high school job at an IT department. I wrote VBA scripts for Excel to automate project management tasks and import data.

software development engineer

amazon

2013-7 - Present · 13 yrs 3 mos

Current: AWS EC2 Spot Fleet - lead development on an API to allow customers to modify their EC2 Spot Fleet requests, enabling them to dynamically scale their fleets. Previous: Personalization Platform - improved the accuracy of real-time behavioral data tracking on amazon.com via a client-side javaScript callback, improved the best-sellers rankings on zappos.com to adjust to seasonality, and helped design a best-seller ranking platform for Amazon subsidiaries.

Education

belen jesuit preparatory school

mathematics

2001-1 - 2008-1 · 7 yrs 1 mo

carnegie mellon university

computer science

2008-1 - 2013-1 · 5 yrs 1 mo

BS in computer science with a strong focus on distributed systems and machine learning. I also minored in history, and still love the subject. Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma