Oliver Gillespie
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOliver Gillespie is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of professional experience building production services at Amazon Web Services after progressing from software engineer roles at AWS and internships at Amazon UK and Polylytics. Trained as a Mechanical Engineer (MEng) from the University of Bath, he brings a systems-oriented mindset to software problems, blending engineering rigor with practical cloud-scale development. At AWS he has evolved from intern to senior engineer, indicating strong delivery and domain growth within large, high-impact teams. Based in England, he pairs hands-on coding experience with an appreciation for hardware-informed design from earlier mechanical engineering and robotics work. Notably, his career path reflects a consistent commitment to shipping reliable cloud services inside one of the world’s largest infrastructure providers.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
St Alban's Catholic High SchoolMaster of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering, Master of Engineering (MEng), Mechanical Engineering at University of Bath
French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (50)
asynchronous10
java-native-interface10
jvm10
corretto10
java10
openjdk10
crate10
rxjava10
compiler10
rust10
intellij-platform10
amazon10
netty9
rust-lang9
jce9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
olivergillespie/jdk
May 2022 - Jun 2026
JDK main-line development
Contributions:69 pushes, 31 branches in 4 years 1 month
openjdkjavajvmjdk
olivergillespie/corretto-jdk
Jan 2022 - Aug 2025
Corretto 15 and subsequent Feature Releases.
Contributions:7 pushes, 23 branches in 3 years 7 months
correttosubsequent
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