Tony Kappen
Software Engineer II AWS Cognito at Amazon
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Kappen is a software engineer with 8 years of experience specializing in cloud infrastructure and identity services, currently contributing to AWS Cognito at Amazon. He has a strong track record of shipping security-focused features—most notably a secure email MFA that added ~400,000 new billable monthly active users—and automating cross-region, cross-account DynamoDB replication to save over a month of engineering time annually. Tony’s background spans applied research and production systems, from duplicating search requests for ElasticSearch model training to lifting binaries into LLVM IR, showing comfort with both low-level tooling and large-scale distributed services. He consistently improves reliability and developer productivity through automation and thoughtful refactors, having eliminated manual processes and hardened critical verification paths. Based in Vancouver, he pairs rigorous academic training from Waterloo with hands-on product impact inside Amazon’s identity ecosystem. Outside product metrics, he brings a knack for turning research prototypes into maintainable production components.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Malayalam, English
Github Skills (61)
database10
go10
golang10
cat10
javascript9
python9
open-source9
convolution9
numba8
finite-element-analysis8
scientific-computing8
uniq8
numerics8
tee8
lift8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mrKappen/mrKappen.github.io
Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
mrKappen/flappyBirdAI
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 28 issues in 1 year 11 months
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