Austin Wentz
Software Development Engineer II at Interview Kickstart
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Wentz is a Software Development Engineer II with a decade of experience building low-latency, high-scale systems, currently shaping music recommendations for Alexa at Amazon. He combines full-stack product experience with ML-driven personalization—having introduced a multi-armed bandit model and led latency and accuracy improvements across Amazon Music voice interactions. Previously he built supply-and-demand forecasting tools for Amazon Devices and cut his teeth on embedded workflows at Qualcomm and automation scripts in genomics and startup environments. Based in Seattle, he also mentors engineers as a mock interviewer, reflecting a passion for teaching and practical problem-solving. A detail that often goes unnoticed: he focuses not just on model quality but on UX edge-cases—e.g., refining genre/era/mood filters so casual “play music” requests return sensible results.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Purdue UniversityThe Woodlands High School
Github Skills (4)
opentelemetry8
opentelemetry-collector7
aws3
observability2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
AustinWentz/RecipeReady
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:50 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
AustinWentz/austinwentz
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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