Zakk Lefkowits
Sr. Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZakk Lefkowits is a senior software engineer at Amazon Fire TV with 11 years of experience and a six-year focus on distributed systems, mobile-cloud architecture, and data engineering at scale. He architected and launched the Discovery Catalog data platform from scratch and led the device & partner launch of the Continue Watching row, consistently choosing robust architectures that trade short-term convenience for long-term velocity. Zakk pioneered agentic engineering within Fire TV—authoring a shared agent definition adopted across multiple teams and operating a human-gated autonomous pipeline that roughly tripled his peer-reviewed production output. He has shipped low-footprint Rust on-device middleware to 100M+ devices and built high-throughput cloud ingestion pipelines handling 200k+ TPS while owning privacy and experimentation surfaces. Trusted by VP leadership, he combines hands-on delivery (solo production launches in months) with org-wide evangelism and tooling that measurably increase developer velocity. Based in Richmond, VA, he’s happiest talking distributed systems, agentic engineering, and remote-first AI product workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia Tech
Github Skills (28)
amazon9
angular8
react8
aws-cli8
command-line-interface8
aws8
typescript8
amazon-web-services8
javascript8
nodejs8
cli7
entity5
web-performance4
web-framework4
database4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zakkl13/zakk.io
Oct 2015 - Mar 2019
Full source code for http://zakk.io *Currently Under Development*
Contributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 28 pushes in 3 years 5 months
under-development
zakkl13/PKT
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:78 pushes in 10 months
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