Jack Kohn
Senior Software Engineer at Roblox
California, United States
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Top SchoolJack Kohn is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, multi-tenant platforms, currently contributing to Roblox after stints at Lyft and AWS. He helped grow AWS API Gateway from its early days into a mature serverless product and later built business-facing transportation tooling at Lyft. Jack is pragmatic and delivery-focused, comfortable across backend systems and platform reliability, and continues to learn new patterns in distributed systems. Based in California, he combines deep production experience with a background in software engineering from Iowa State University and a history of shipping durable, customer-facing infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Iowa State University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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amazon-web-services
top-1%
aws-lambda
top-1%
amazon-cloudfront
top-5%
Github Skills (64)
serverless-application-model10
aws-lambda10
azure-functions10
google-cloud-functions10
amazon-web-services10
aws-dynamodb10
sam10
serverless-applications10
aws-sam10
aws-cloudformation10
api10
aws10
gateway10
serverless-framework10
transform10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-apigateway-lambda-authorizer-blueprints
Mar 2016 - Apr 2020
Blueprints and examples for Lambda-based custom Authorizers for use in API Gateway.
Contributions:19 commits, 16 PRs, 16 pushes in 4 years 1 month
api-gatewayapiserverlessaws-lambdagateway
jackrk/chalice
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
pythonmicroframeworkserverlessaws-lambdapython-serverless
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