David Wolak
SDE 1 - Amazon Robotics
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Wolak is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland with a track record of designing and operating large-scale, production-critical systems at Amazon Robotics and Slalom. He specializes in distributed systems, cloud-native AWS services, and automation—having built actor-based orchestration for 750,000 drive units, AWS Fargate/ElastiCache-backed services, and an IoT safety feature that shrank firmware update cycles from months to minutes. Comfortable across languages (C++, Python, C#, Java, JavaScript) and frameworks, he pairs backend engineering with DevOps practices like CDK-driven infra, pipelines, and on-call incident response. Early internships show a pragmatic tester and integrator mindset (Jest/Cypress, Bamboo, Sonar) and a long-standing hobbyist interest in robotics and automation, evidenced by robotics-focused schooling and personal projects.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Robotics, High School Diploma, Robotics at Hillsboro High SchoolBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, 3.16 GPA, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, 3.16 GPA at Portland State Universty
Github Skills (2)
capstone9
spring5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wolakdav/Personal-Website
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:1 release, 16 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
wolakdav/DndCharacterSheet
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 2 months
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