Colin Heinrichs is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon in Seattle with a decade of hands-on experience building production systems since his internship in 2017. He progressed through roles from intern to SDE I and now SDE II, bringing deep institutional knowledge of Amazon’s engineering practices and large-scale service development. A Software Engineering graduate from Iowa State University, he combines strong academic foundations with practical expertise shipping reliable, customer-facing software. Colleagues know him for steady technical ownership and the ability to translate complex requirements into maintainable code. Despite being based in a major tech hub, he retains a pragmatic, engineering-first approach honed across multiple Amazon teams.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Graduate, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Graduate at Iowa State University
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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Colin Heinrichs - Software Development Engineer II at Amazon