Umut Orhan

Experience

1. Senior Software Development Engineer

   Amazon

   May 2020 — Present

   Currently working on standardization, intelligence and auditing for Amazon\'s Financial Data processing and reporting pipeline.Partnering with Amazon Search, developed a proof-of-concept to reduce the training duration and cost of LLMs by up to 25%, which later productionized and launced as a new AWS SageMaker feature called Smart Sifting: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/train-smart-sifting.html Tech lead of three core eCommerce and B2B services of Amazon\'s items and offers pipeline: 1) Offer Listings (manages price and other merchandising terms updates of Sellers on items and services sold on Amazon marketplaces), 2) Merchandising Platform (automated offer listing syndication and augmentations for Amazon business programs) and 3) Gating (enforcing business constraints on Seller contributions including brand protection and restricted products).

Education

• Middle East Technical University

  Bachelor of Science (BS)

  2002 — 2006

• Middle East Technical University

  Master of Science (MS)

  2006 — 2008

• Penn State University

  Master of Science (MS)

  2009 — 2011

Skills

• Distributed Systems
• C
• Voip
• Object Oriented Design
• Cloud Computing
• Large Scale Systems
• Compiler Construction
• Performance Analysis
• Software Development
• Software Engineering
• Identity & Access Management (Iam)
• Operating Systems
• Software Design
• Test Driven Development
• Continuous Integration
• Databases
• Embedded Systems
• Java
• Algorithms
• Retail Software
• Scalable Architecture
• C++
• Service Oriented Architecture Design