Katherine Huang

Software Development Engineer Ii @Amazon

Toronto, ON, CA

Designed and owned scalable backend features supporting global retail expansion, with a focus on detecting, correcting, and preventing revenue-impacting inventory defects across fulfillment processes.Led cross-team initiatives integrating 5+ external systems, automating 10+ manual defect resolution processes with event-driven architectures, projected to save over $40MM annually.Managed services processing requests per minute, triggering long-running workflows to resolve complex inventory discrepancies over several days.Ensured system reliability and performance by designing fault-tolerant workflows for inventory resolution, ensuring durable state management and data consistency across distributed, asynchronous systems.Enhanced system observability by building real-time dashboards to track performance, incidents, and operational KPIs, enabling proactive issue detection and resolution.Mentored multiple engineers, preparing them for SDE I → II promotion, and authored internal best practices for branching strategy and code pipeline management, which have been adopted by 2+ teams.Tech Stack: Java, AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, CloudWatch), React, internal orchestration tools.

University of Vienna

Language Certificate, German B1.2

University of Toronto

Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering

University of Bremen

Research Exchange, Informatik