Jess Izen
Senior Software Development Engineer (SDE3) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJess Izen is a Senior Software Development Engineer with seven years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems, currently focused on advancing Rust platform and language capabilities at AWS. Based in Seattle, Jess has driven Rust services and libraries for AWS WAF bot and fraud control and now works to improve Rust ecosystem performance, build speed, and ergonomics both inside Amazon and in open source. Prior roles span full-stack and backend development—from SSO and GraphQL integrations at GE to greenfield serverless and mobile projects—showing a practical fluency across Node.js, AWS, PostgreSQL, and modern frontend stacks. Early leadership experience running operations and tech for a courier startup hints at strong product instincts and operational discipline that inform their engineering decisions.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (94)
http10
http-client10
code-generation10
middleware10
lambda10
rust10
tower10
aws-lambda10
aws-sdk10
counter10
aws-sdk-rust10
asynchronous10
networking10
aws10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jlizen/vacation
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
Vacation: give your (runtime) workers a break
Contributions:52 reviews, 8 PRs, 66 pushes in 1 month
jlizen/aws-lambda-rust-runtime
May 2025 - Mar 2026
A Rust runtime for AWS Lambda
Contributions:71 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
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