Gianna Sheffield

[May 2025 - Present] I joined Project Kuiper as the SDM of the eCommerce Privacy charter. [Oct 2021 - May 2025] After leading the Used shopping experience space as a SDE, I transitioned to a Software Development Manager (SDM) role and built a team focused on improving customers ability to purchase Used items on Amazon. I grew my team from 2 SDEs to 6 SDEs and expanded the Used shopping experience charter to include 5 additional retail website pages built on a variety of tech stacks. In Q2, 2024, I was promoted to SDM III after successfully growing my team, promoting teammates, and expanding my charter. [Jan 2019 - Oct 2021] As a SDE in WW Returns & ReCommerce (WWRR) organization, I was a strong believer in their mission to Make Zero Happen (Zero Defects, Zero Cost of Returns, Zero Product Waste, and Zero Net Carbon, at scale). I had worked on a variety of projects mostly within the areas of Pricing, Listing, and Customer Shopping Experience for Used offers. I'm passionate at improving the shopping experience for customers who are purchasing Used items because buying Used is one of the best ways we can achieve Zero Product Waste. In Q4 2020, I was promoted to SDE 2. [July 2017 - Dec 2018] As a new hire out of university, I started working as a Software Development Engineer (SDE) in Amazon Business where we provided trusted businesses with the ability to order in bulk and launched Amazon Business Prime.

The assistantship required development on the ComPASS website, which is in affiliation with the Preference of Everyday Living Inventory (PELI) project, to improve resident care in Ohio nursing homes. We followed the agile methodology, while using Ruby on Rails, HTML, and CSS. The development also included writing automated testing programs using RSpec, Capybara, and Selenium.

January - May 2016: Assisted a professor by grading minor and major assignments. Courses: Introduction to Bioinformatics (CSE 256); Compilers (CSE 474/574). August - December 2017: Attends class labs and holds weekly office hours to help students with assignments. Assists professor by grading in-class exercises, labs, and homework. Course: Systems I (CSE 278).

Worked on a team to develop mobile applications on the iOS platform using Ruby on Rails, Javascript, and HTML. Communicated with clients and organized stand-up meetings in order to follow Agile methodology.

Worked with students taking CSE 274 (Data Structures and Abstractions) with writing programs and understanding data structures, such as Linked Lists, Hash Tables, and more. This was over the winter term and was a three-week intensive course.

Wrote automated testing scripts for regression test cases. Programmed using Ruby, RSpec, Selenium WebDriver, and Capybara.

Mathematics Minor. University Honors Program. Undergraduate Summer Scholar (Summer 2016). President's Distinguished Service Award Recipient (2017). Senior Service Award Recipient (2017).