Devin Howard
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDevin Howard is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently leading platform and delivery work at Amazon in the Greater Seattle area. He progressed through SDE roles to principal level, bringing strong systems thinking and a track record of improving deployment automation and developer experience. Devin contributes to open-source tooling—fixing deployment, rbenv/RVM, and git integration issues in the popular mina deployer—and sharpens technical docs in Python OLAP tooling, showing attention to both code and clarity. He holds a Bachelor of Knowledge Integration with Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, blending interdisciplinary problem framing with hands-on engineering at scale. Notably, he pairs deep backend and DevOps expertise with a habit of polishing documentation and developer workflows that often goes unnoticed but materially reduces operational friction.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Knowledge Integration Honours Knowledge Integration & Computer Science, Bachelor of Knowledge Integration Honours Knowledge Integration & Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (22)
deploying10
rvm10
ruby10
automation10
automations10
mina10
cube10
documentation10
git9
data-analysis9
ssh9
rails8
ruby-rails8
html6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mina-deploy/mina
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Blazing fast deployer and server automation tool
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:10 commits, 15 PRs, 36 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Devin primarily focused on improving the deployment and automation aspects of the project. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to command execution and whitespace handling, enhancing the rbenv integration, and ensuring the git push function. They made changes to the deployment configuration files, and tackled issues relating to RVM usage, ensuring a smoother deployment experience.
minablazingdeploymentrailsssh
DataBrewery/cubes
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Light-weight Python OLAP framework for multi-dimensional data analysis
Role in this project:Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Devin primarily focused on correcting typos and improving documentation within the cubes repository. Their contributions involved fixing grammatical errors in various documentation files, including formatters, schemas, and the introduction. They also added documentation for expressions in the aggregates section, clarifying their usage. This indicates a focus on enhancing the clarity and accuracy of the project's documentation.
cubemulti-dimensionaldata-analysispythondata
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