Oliver Leung
Backend Software Development Engineer, Amplify Hosting at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolOliver Leung is a backend software engineer with eight years of experience currently building developer-facing deployment and hosting services for AWS Amplify. He designs resilient, production-grade systems—implementing DDoS detection/mitigation on CloudFront, CloudFormation-driven fixes, and CloudWatch monitoring—to help teams safely ship full-stack web apps at scale. Comfortable across Python, TypeScript, and AWS ML tooling, he previously built an information-retrieval model on SageMaker to auto-surface similar GitHub issues and automated responses via GitHub Actions. An advocate for open source, he developed a Python package used by environmental engineers worldwide and coordinated contributors to real-world infrastructure projects. Based in Washington, D.C., he blends cryptography interest and practical ops improvements to reduce developer friction and accelerate delivery.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Mathematics and Computer Science at Cornell University
Spanish, Chinese
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Github Skills (130)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
oliver-leung/dotfiles
Apr 2020 - Feb 2024
Where I store my Unix dotfiles!
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
unixlinuxbashasdfdotfiles
oliver-leung/night-bite
Feb 2020 - May 2020
Presented by SOYA Studios! (CS/INFO 3152 Group 11)
Contributions:4 releases, 188 commits, 77 PRs in 2 months
reacttypescriptsoyastudios
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