Preston Tamkin
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPreston Tamkin is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with over a decade of experience designing and shipping cloud-native services and developer tooling at AWS. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Amazon and AWS since 2012, contributing to game and mobile analytics, SDKs, and cloud integrations, and now focuses on architectural leadership and delivery at scale. Preston is an active contributor to the popular aws-amplify project, improving XR/Sumerian integration and demonstrating attention to SDK credentialing and HTTP header handling in front-to-back integrations. His background spans C++, Java, and full-stack JavaScript work, with hands-on experience from early systems administration and VMware migrations to leading technical strategy as a CTO. Colleagues value his blend of pragmatic system design and low-level implementation depth, especially in scenarios that bridge client SDKs with cloud service credentials.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (8)
javascript10
react10
aws-amplify10
cloud-infrastructure9
infrastructure9
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-js
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
A declarative JavaScript library for application development using cloud services.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Preston focused on enhancements within the `aws-amplify/amplify-js` repository, particularly in the `xr` package. Their contributions centered on improving the integration of the Sumerian provider, which involved updating the `loadScene` function to handle optional parameters and modifying the user agent header. The changes included setting SDK overrides for Sumerian to use Amplify credentials and correctly passing headers to the fetch command.
pwaamazon-cognitoawsaws-mobilestorage
prestomation/amazon-sumerian-hosts
Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:4 releases, 10 PRs, 48 pushes in 8 months
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