Austin Jenchi is a Software Development Engineer II based in Seattle with 12 years of experience building scalable backend services and real-time systems at Amazon Ads, where he has designed high-throughput features and operational tooling serving hundreds of thousands of TPS. He brings a full-stack mindset—proficient in Java, TypeScript, AWS CDK, Lambda, Spark and embedded C++—and a track record of shipping horizontally scalable serverless systems and improving data accuracy under production constraints. Outside of ads, Austin has deep robotics and computer vision experience from leading software work for University of Washington RoboMaster teams, authoring and maintaining the open-source Taproot framework that helped a community of teams accelerate development. He also has a history of teaching and mentoring through university TA roles and volunteer work with FIRST Robotics, reflecting a talent for translating complex technical concepts to others. Pragmatic and curious, he combines production-grade engineering at cloud scale with hands-on robotics and community-driven open source.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Geography - Data Science, 3.61, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Geography - Data Science, 3.61 at University of Washington
High School, 3.6, High School, 3.6 at Eastlake High School
Contributions:14 PRs, 36 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 5 months
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Austin Jenchi - Software Development Engineer II at Amazon