Jake Jacob Dawley-Carr Carr

About Jake Jacob Dawley-Carr Carr

I am a customer-obsessed engineer who loves to mentor and learn new things.Keywords: routing, storage, availability, security

Experience

1. Principal Software Development Engineer

   Amazon

   Jan 2006 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Seattle, WA - Java, distributed systems. Big projects I\'ve worked on:* Designed and was team lead for company-wide service registry. I generated an evolving directed graph of Amazon\'s service oriented architecture by sampling network connections with a software sensor I wrote and deployed on every host (Cartographer)* Designed and was multi-team lead for a company-wide RESTful configuration store. Ran schema governance meetings for company business objects (Sofa)* Moved internal teams to Amazon\'s cloud. I temporarily embedded myself into a team, understood customer requirements, and wrote test cases and code. I discovered storage migration best practices and missing functionality in existing storage solutions. I drove feature requirements to Amazon storage vendors (Red Pill)* Technical task force member where we increased Amazon availability by moving all relational storage to NoSQL. I worked closely with individual teams to rework data models, produced best practices documents, and gave company wide talks.(Rolling Stone)* Part of various company-wide working groups including understanding the Amazon object model (role: member), understanding rules engine (role: lead), website latency reduction (role: member), and understanding storage (role: lead)* Current specialization: secure storage, distributed systems, availability* Significant mentorship and recruiting, including international (half my team is in India)* Multiple internal talks with 100+ attendees

Education

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  1992 — 1998

Skills

• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Computing
• Storage
• Database Design
• Java
• Embedded Systems
• Mentoring
• Technical Recruiting
• Information Security
• Scalability
• Software Design
• Hibernate
• Agile Methodologies
• C++
• Perl
• Rest
• Unix
• Software Development
• Object Oriented Design
• Spring
• Integration
• Software Engineering
• Embedded Software
• Linux
• Telecommunications
• Spring Framework
• Representational State Transfer (Rest)
• Nosql