Summary
Tennyson Holloway is a Software Engineer II with 12 years of experience building high-throughput, distributed systems at both startups and Amazon, where he designed microservices that process billions of offers daily and helped accelerate tier-1 deployments with Continuous Delivery. Comfortable across Java, JavaScript, AWS, and modern development practices, he has a track record of keeping mission-critical services stable during Prime Day and other peak events. Earlier roles include full-stack product development and HCI research—he helped build LearnToMod.com and earned an NSF grant for VR work—bringing a blend of product-minded engineering and research curiosity. Based in Seattle and trained in mathematics and computer science at UC San Diego, he also mentors newer engineers and drives pragmatic modernization of legacy systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego