Oliver Wong

About Oliver Wong

23 years experience in JVM technologies such as Java, Scala, Kotlin, etc.(Since…

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer Ii

   Amazon

   Jan 2014 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) allows independent publishers and authors to publish their books on the Amazon Kindle store. My team is the Kindle Content Inspection and Automation (KCIA) and we write tools to automatically review of books (for illegal, inappropriate, plagiarized, etc. content) where possible, and yet more tools to aid in human review where automation isn\'t possible.The number of backend services our team owns is in the high double digits, and I\'ve worked on essentially all of them, as well as spun up new services to catch newly discovered forms of abuse from publishers, or to start automating processes that were previously manually done by humans.Pretty much everything KCIA does is confidential (we don\'t produce anything that is used by the general public), so instead of following the pattern of splitting out projects from job-positions as I\'ve done for every other company on this list, this entry will also summarize at a high level my project work at Amazon.Technologies used:* Java, Spring, Hibernate, etc.* Client side JavaScript* Ruby on Rails* git* AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, RDS, SQS, SNS, etc.)* Various Amazon-specific languages/scaling/backend/distributed computing technologiesKey Accomplishments:* In my first year, put in charge of improving automation for Kindle book review, reducing costs of rights-review to Amazon by 32%.* Received \"Amazon Inventor\" award for successful patent idea submission.* Gave a very well received presentation on static type checking http://nebupookins.github.io/static-type-checking/* Became main presenter/host of fp-seminar, an Amazon-internal interest group on functional programming and related topics.Responsibilities:* Maintaining (migrating off old technology, fixing bugs, implementing new feature requests, etc.) all existing KCIA services.* Designing and implementing new KCIA services* Finding and implementing process improvements for my team.

Education

• McGill University

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

  2001 — 2005

• Dawson College

  DEC, Pure and Applied Science

  1999 — 2001