Patrick Margey

About Patrick Margey

I am one of the few tech managers who has diverse international work experience. Where I…

Experience

1. Software Development Manager (Sdm Iii)

   Amazon

   Jan 2017 — Present

   Currently working within \'Amazon Photos\', I am heading up the \'Storytelling\' team. The storytelling team curates joyful photographic customer moments and weaves them into majestic short video(s) to help them relive their experiences. We use an assortment of Machine Learning techniques to bring the best curated photos to the fore, from which we vend these photo collections to our highly performance apps in Web, iOS, Android and FireTV. These Apps are developed using cutting edge frontend stacks in Swift, Kotlin and React Native and are used by a large customer base. We operate at large scales using best of breed backend services and we move fast to delight our customers. Software Development Manager -\'Amazon Music\' personalization (previous) Worked for Amazon Music where I managed the personalization and tagging teams to build the next generation recommendation services to compete against Spotify and Apple Music Software Development Manager -\'Sponsored Products\' Advertising (previous) Previously, I managed the Amazon’s core Sponsored Products advertising serving fleet and its primary function is to offer up contextually-relevant sponsored product items (rendered as ads) for shoppers in response to the Retail Search Platform and Detail Page sending search queries to our ad serving fleet along with the context of where the ads will be placed. The Ad serving fleet also consists of the syndication program which is where SSPA serves sponsored products on external sites outside of Amazon.

Education

• Waterford Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science

  1994 — 1998

• Letterkenny Institute of Technology

  Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science

  2004 — 2006

Skills

• Enterprise Architecture
• IT Strategy
• Project Planning
• Asp.net Mvc
• Ant
• Management
• Html 5
• Jsp
• Soa
• Software Design
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Sql
• Mobile Applications
• Integration
• Weblogic
• Solution Architecture
• Spring
• Architecture
• Object Oriented Design
• Ejb
• Etl
• Php
• Tomcat
• Requirements Analysis
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Cloud Computing
• Scrum
• .net
• Spring Mvc
• Software Development
• Javascript
• Xml
• Web Services
• Websphere
• Business Strategy
• Strategy
• Web Applications
• Hibernate