Johnathon Schultz
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohnathon Schultz is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native systems, currently at Amazon after a long tenure at Twitch. He specializes in distributed systems, developer experience, and infrastructure-as-code with deep AWS and CDK expertise, having founded Twitch’s CDK Bar Raisers SIG to raise platform-wide standards. He has led migrations and architectural redesigns that doubled availability (to four 9s), halved infrastructure costs, and recovered up to a million ad opportunities per day by eliminating critical bottlenecks. Comfortable as both a technical lead and hands-on implementer, he blends SRE discipline with backend engineering to enable zero-downtime platform migrations and robust developer tooling. His background in monitoring, release engineering, and multi-agent AI research gives him a rare mix of operational rigor and systems-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Information Science at Cornell University
English
Github Skills (54)
development-kit10
linux10
trend10
ruby10
homebrew10
aws10
macos10
package-manager10
aws-cloud9
bravado9
terraform9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
cloud-development-kit9
infrastructure-as-code9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
johnschultz/dotstash
May 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 11 months
vimstashfirendsdotfileszsh
johnschultz/dotstar.plus
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:51 pushes in 29 days
moonone-columnjekylljekyll-theme
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