Summary
Neil Fritz is a senior software development manager with a decade of leadership building large-scale web services and integrations across Amazon, AWS, Bright Machines, and higher education. He blends hands-on engineering (J2EE, Spring, Java, Python, RabbitMQ, MongoDB/CouchDB) with product-driven team building, having grown teams from single engineers to 40+ and delivered services that process hundreds of petabytes and schedule 650K meetings/year. At AWS he founded Prelude, creating $20M/year value by designing a serverless scheduling product; at Amazon he’s led platforms from Alexa messaging to Photos and now LLM-powered HR assistants using Bedrock, LangChain, and internal RAG systems. He’s equally practiced in operational excellence—establishing SDLC, on-call rotations, runbooks, telemetry, and migration strategies that cut costs (e.g., $30M/yr savings on face clustering). Based in Greater Seattle, Neil pairs deep systems and integration experience with pragmatic product focus, and frequently bridges robotics, cloud, and ML/LLM tooling in production.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Arizona State University