Oliver Leung
Backend Software Development Engineer, Amplify Hosting at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolOliver Leung is a backend software development engineer at AWS Amplify with eight years of experience building scalable, cloud-native web applications. He specializes in robust backend systems, including DDoS detection on CloudFront, real-time operational monitoring with CloudWatch, and infrastructure automation using CloudFormation, Lambda, and DynamoDB to empower developers deploying full-stack apps on AWS. An active open-source contributor with a passion for cryptography, he also led the AguaClara Infrastructure Design Engine open-source Python package used by over 100 environmental engineers and helped secure EPA P3 funding for wastewater tech projects. During an AWS internship, he built an information-retrieval model to detect similar GitHub issues and deployed inference APIs via SageMaker, Lambda, and API Gateway, showcasing ML-to-ops integration. He holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science and an MEng in Computer Science from Cornell University, and is based in Washington, DC, blending rigorous academic training with hands-on production engineering.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Cornell University
Spanish, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (138)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
oliver-leung/dotfiles
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
Where I store my Unix dotfiles!
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
unixlinuxbashasdfdotfiles
oliver-leung/night-bite
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Presented by SOYA Studios! (CS/INFO 3152 Group 11)
Contributions:4 releases, 188 commits, 77 PRs in 2 months
reacttypescriptsoyastudios
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