Dawit A.

About Dawit A.

Senior software engineer working on Tier-1 checkout systems that power both digital experiences and 400+ physical stores. My focus sits at the intersection of performance, system architecture, and delivery, ensuring customers can reliably check out regardless of traffic spikes, regional failures, or offline scenarios.I currently support mission-critical checkout services with direct revenue impact, where resilience and correctness matter as much as speed. My work spans multi-region architecture, offline capability, and checkout performance, with a strong emphasis on designing systems that fail gracefully and recover quickly.Over the past year, I’ve led and contributed to several high-impact initiatives, including migrating Tier-1 services from legacy ECS to Kubernetes with zero downtime, redesigning proxy logic to support multi-region resilience, and delivering offline checkout capabilities across hundreds of stores under tight timelines.I’m comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments — leading design reviews, advocating for operational excellence, and partnering closely with product, SRE, and platform teams to ship reliable systems at scale.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Nordstrom

   Oct 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Own and support Tier-1 checkout services serving both e-commerce and 400+ retail stores, where availability and performance directly impact revenue- Led design reviews and implementation efforts to improve multi-region resilience, reducing single-region failure risk for critical checkout paths- Migrated Tier-1 services from legacy ECS to Kubernetes (NSK) with zero downtime, improving scalability, latency, and operational efficiency- Designed and delivered offline checkout capabilities for hundreds of stores, enabling continued operation during network disruptions- Partner closely with SRE and platform teams to strengthen BCDR readiness, operational playbooks, and production safety.

Education

• Arbaminch University

  Bachelor's degree, Civil and Urban Engineering

  2011 — 2013

• Shoreline Community College

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Computer Science

  2014 — 2015

• University of Washington Bothell

  Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer science and software engineering

  2016

Skills

• Customer Service
• Computer Maintenance
• Microsoft Office
• Computer Hardware Assembly
• Computers
• Advertising
• Digital Printing
• Java
• Netbeans
• Adobe Photoshop
• Graphic Design
• Microsoft Excel
• Construction Site Management
• Javafx
• Microsoft Word
• Training
• Html
• Leadership
• Teamwork
• Sql
• Programming
• Javascript
• Angularjs
• Ionic Framework
• Web Services Api
• Woocommerce
• Json