Gary Slootskiy
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Slootskiy is a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon with five years of professional experience building distributed, full‑stack systems and integrating large language models into production. He leads development of a comprehensive support ecosystem for Amazon Advertising, combining live support, LLM-powered chatbots, and contextual assistance to serve over a million advertisers and hundreds of internal associates. Proficient in Java, JavaScript, and React, he moves between backend architecture and frontend UX, evidenced by his open-source front-end contributions to Swell, a tool for testing streaming APIs. Based in San Francisco, he thrives on designing scalable solutions that reduce friction for both customers and internal teams, and brings a creative background (BFA) to pragmatic engineering tradeoffs.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA at Boston University
English, Russian
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-components9
react-router8
server-sent-events7
websocket7
graphql6
rest-api6
grpc6
api6
wordpress-graphql6
streaming-api6
wpgraphql6
api-rest6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/Swell
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, gRPC, and tRPC..
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:170 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 23 days
Contributions summary:Gary primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, focusing on implementing UI components within the Swell API development tool. Their work involved removing unnecessary state elements and adding React Router to manage navigation within the application's SidebarContainer. The user also introduced new components for handling REST requests, expanding the tool's functionality to test various API endpoints and streaming technologies.
grpcendpointsendpointswellmonitoring
garyslootskiy/Swell
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Swell: API development tool that enables developers to test endpoints served over streaming technologies including Server-Sent Events (SSE), WebSockets, HTTP2, GraphQL, and gRPC.
Contributions:1 release, 46 pushes in 22 days
apieventswebsocketstechnologiesgrpc
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