Molly Hayward
Software Engineer II at Amazon
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMolly Hayward is a Software Engineer II at Amazon working on Alexa with nine years of experience and a First-Class MEng in Computer Science from Durham University. She progressed from an S3 intern to full-time Amazon engineer and now holds a senior individual contributor role, demonstrating strong cloud and voice-assistant domain exposure. While at Durham she taught first-year web and JavaScript programming, reflecting a knack for clear technical communication and mentoring. Known on GitHub simply as "SDE," she combines solid academic results (85% BSc average) with practical delivery in large-scale systems. Colleagues would describe her as a reliable implementer who bridges academic rigour and production-grade engineering.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, First-Class Honours, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Science, First-Class Honours at Durham University
Github Skills (22)
natural-language-processing9
audio9
nlp9
speech-recognition8
python8
deep-learning8
machine-learning8
llm8
pytorch8
machine-learning-models7
transformers7
multimodal7
transformer7
gemma6
inference6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mollha/StereoVision
Nov 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:13 commits, 1 push in 7 months
mollha/DUWIT
Jun 2020 - May 2021
Durham University Women In Tech website created as part of the Hack Girl Summer Hackathon
Contributions:1 review, 36 commits, 24 PRs in 10 months
website-techreactgirldurhamwomen
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