An Ta

About An Ta

I\'m passionate about working with data and building low-latency, highly available services that scale to millions of documents- I have extensive experiences building data products at AWS. I embrace AI in my everyday work and use every chance I have to learn new things- I have worked in both startup and large enterprise environments. I\'m generally known as a detailed-oriented, persistent and reliable partner.

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Jan 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Contributed to major product launches: Amazon Datazone (2023), Amazon Sagemaker Unified Studio (2025)- Helped build a type system and search engine from scratch at Amazon scale, powering critical functions of Datazone and Sagemaker Unified Studio spanning multiple AI, data and analytics verticals- Drove the development and release of Accelerator, a (patent pending) component that speeds up search and index operations by 50% while reducing S3 Get calls by 10X- Performed extensive load/performance test at Amazon scale and removed bottlenecks to reduce indexing time for 1M+ documents from 23+ hours to 2+ hours- Led the initiative to reduce accelerator failure detection time from 10 minutes to a few seconds, provided the design and guided a team member to complete the implementation- Created comprehensive metrics and easy to use dashboard to monitor accelerator performance. Wrote detailed runbook for oncall engineers to troubleshoot issues- Delivered features to improve log traceability, reduce cost and debugging time and meet AWS standards- Automated time-consuming tasks with scripts, reducing team effort on operations

Education

• Ho Chi Minh Open University

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2006 — 2010

• Vietnamese-German University

  Master’s Degree, Business Information Systems

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Wix
• Wcf
• Entity Framework
• Web Api
• Ruby on Rails
• Jira
• Asp.net Mvc
• Junit
• Css
• Sharepoint
• Cucumber
• Sql
• Asp.net
• Team Leadership
• Oracle
• Ajax
• Windows Communication Foundation (Wcf)
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Microsoft Technologies
• Visual Studio
• Angular.js
• Backbone.js
• Software Estimation
• Knockout.js
• Rspec
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Linq
• Scala
• Teamwork
• Web Services
• Silverlight
• Javascript
• Uml
• Html 5
• Software Development
• Scrum