Shirom Makkad
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolShirom Makkad is a Software Engineer II at AWS with 10 years of experience building high-scale, production Rust services for Amazon Verified Permissions and designing secure authorization APIs. He specializes in low-latency caching (Redis and on-host refresh-ahead/LRU) and distributed systems reliability, running CI/CD across thousands of hosts and supporting 24/7 on-call with zero planned downtime. Shirom has contributed to Cedar-based open-source authorization tooling and implemented IAM features including OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and AWS KMS. Beyond AWS, he pursues ambitious side projects in AI and computer vision—from an AI for heart disease diagnosis to robotics vision and desktop apps—demonstrating a knack for taking large, open-ended ideas from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityPembroke Hill School
Github Skills (200)
pihole10
noise10
inotifywait10
intellij-plugin10
text-editor10
console10
inotify10
intellij10
led-controller10
balena10
tray-icon9
jetbrains9
todoist9
kakoune9
firefox9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ShiromMakkad/LedFxDocker
Dec 2020 - Oct 2022
A Docker Container for LedFx.
Contributions:46 commits, 3 PRs, 37 pushes in 1 year 9 months
led-stripssound-reactive-ledsbalenadockersound-reactive
ShiromMakkad/docker-pihole-sync
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
A Docker Container To Sync Two Piholes
Contributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years
rsyncsyncsynchronizationinotifyvaultwarden
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