Jonathan Paulson
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Paulson is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, focused on designing and scaling backup and restore solutions for Amazon Aurora's distributed storage system. With a Computer Engineering degree from UIUC and over two years of hands-on AWS experience (plus prior internships), he brings deep expertise in distributed systems, databases, and OS design to ensure high availability and data durability at cloud scale. He has practical hardware and systems chops—having built a Linux OS, a RISC-V out-of-order processor, and an efficient FPGA Fire Module—reflecting a rare blend of software, architecture, and hardware skills. His background also includes robotics and sensor-fusion work from Aerospace, giving him a systems-thinking approach to complex integrations. Colleagues would describe him as someone who tackles large-scale reliability challenges with engineering rigor and a maker’s curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (12)
youtube10
java10
python9
data-structure9
cpp9
algorithm9
multiplayer8
graph6
bigdecimal6
big-o6
text-files6
parsing6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jonathanpaulson/grabby_aliens
Dec 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:1 review, 65 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
jonathanpaulson/minions
Jun 2016 - Aug 2021
Multiplayer team tactics game on a hex grid
Contributions:4 reviews, 288 commits, 20 PRs in 5 years 2 months
multiplayer
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