Ameen Ateeqi
Software Engineer II at Prime Video & Amazon Studios
Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmeen Ateeqi is a full-stack Software Engineer II with eight years of experience building reliable cloud-native systems, currently contributing to Ads CX at Prime Video & Amazon Studios. He has a strong AWS and observability background from time at AWS and notable open-source contributions to amazon-cloudwatch-agent and the OpenTelemetry Collector, where he implemented log retention, cwlogs exporter support, and ECS task placeholder handling. Comfortable across backend, DevOps, and front-end stacks (React/Node/TypeScript), Ameen blends systems-level Go work with CI/CD and infrastructure automation. Based in Maryland, he brings practical production experience from high-scale environments and a Computer Engineering foundation from the University of Maryland. An attentive problem-solver, he often focuses on edge-case correctness in logging and retention behavior—an underappreciated but critical part of observability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (17)
aws-cloudwatch10
testing10
amazon-cloudwatch10
go-testing10
go10
aws10
opentelemetry10
logging10
cloudwatch10
error-handling9
configuration-management8
devops7
cicd6
kubernetes-pods5
dockers5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
CloudWatch Agent enables you to collect and export host-level metrics and logs on instances running Linux or Windows server.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 8 commits, 14 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ameen primarily focused on enhancing the CloudWatch Agent's functionality by implementing and refining the retention policy feature for log groups. Their work involved modifying code to incorporate retention settings, validating configurations, and handling potential errors. They also contributed to testing and bug fixes related to log handling, including tests for retention policy application, and resolving duplicate retention issues. Additionally, the user made changes to the agent's build processes and configuration, indicating some DevOps involvement.
instancescollectwindows-serverexportagent
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
Contrib repository for the OpenTelemetry Collector
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 9 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ameen contributed to enhancing the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib repository with support for AWS ECS task definition placeholders in log stream names, and enabled the awscloudwatchlogsexporter. The user implemented the integration with the awscloudwatchlogsexporter and made the changes to the cwlogs package. The contributions included modifications to various configuration files and test cases, showcasing a focus on AWS logging and infrastructure.
contribopentelemetry-collectortracingtempoobservability
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