Isaac Bowen
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIsaac Bowen is a software development engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in distributed storage and workflow systems, currently building Amazon’s Herd workflow engine in Seattle. He holds BSE and MSE degrees in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and brings a strong systems background from internships at Google and Capital One. Isaac’s work spans designing scalable, geo-replicated data pipelines and building fault-tolerant, multi-process services—skills he honed both as a Herd engineer and as a GSI where he authored a MapReduce project and its test suite. Practical and hands-on, he has moved monolithic web apps to RESTful services and automated monitoring and data validation tooling, often focusing on making complex backend systems more observable and robust. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who pairs deep technical rigor with a knack for turning educational projects into production-quality infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BSE, Computer Science, 3.55, BSE, Computer Science, 3.55 at University of Michigan
English
Github Skills (6)
insert7
key-value5
paxos5
key-value-store4
concurrent4
php1
Github contributions (5)
irbowen/b_trees
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:103 commits, 12 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 month
concurrentstudyingworkloadsinserttrees
irbowen/Sharded_Key_Value_Store
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:4 releases, 175 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
paxosshardedbackedkey-value-storekey-value
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