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Senior Software Development Engineer @ Accelerating the Amazon Instant Video Web team. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) London, United KingdomSenior Software Development Engineer @ Technology lead, Amazon Mobile Web

Senior Software Development Engineer @ Accelerating the Amazon Instant Video Web team. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) London, United KingdomSenior Software Development Engineer @ Technology lead, Amazon Mobile Web

Architected, built, maintained, and improved mobile web applications. Onboarded developers across Amazon onto mobile-facing development atop both Amazon’s and Anywhere’s technology stacks.

Drove down latency to a consistently sub-second click- to-critical-feature customer experience over cellular networks and hundreds of SOA services. Policed, investigated, and resolved regressions from new projects.

Designed and implemented predictive pre-rendering and pre-caching for expensive mobile page transitions.

Pushed and guided teams within mobile and retail orgs into continuous deployment.

Continuously improved our products, customer experience, performance, and revenue through aggressive and continuous automated A/B testing.

Scaled up web services through efficiency gains in optimizing and rearchitecting software, sparing hardware costs for large fleets.

Gained the trust of management to steer our ship in a different direction when projects were going the wrong way, then delivering successes.

Permanent on-call last resort: troubleshot difficult or urgent production bugs, stopping severe customer trust erosion risks on a regular basis.

Mentored staff and senior developers with weekly checkups. Ramped up junior and staff developers.

Interviewed dozens of candidates for my team and others. Encouraged other developers to pursue their interests in side projects, investing personal time to help them with reviews and code contributions.

Gatekeeper for code changes from dozens of developers across different teams through code review, email, and live discussions.

Improved portions of Amazon’s build systems, deployment systems, and web application platform. Updated legacy (10yr+) systems for modern needs, saving expensive rewrites. From October 2012 to September 2014 (2 years) Tokyo, JapanSoftware Development Engineer @ Tech lead, Amazon Mobile Web

Delivered the mobile org’s highest priorities including multiple customer experience redesigns leading up to a unified codebase for web and app front-ends. Routinely drove at-risk projects back on track.

Clean code: transitioned the order pipeline (checkout front-end) to a new data model and set of backend services along with an API that sped up similar efforts for other teams. Continuously improved applications and libraries with similar results.

Hit the ground running: within a month of joining, patched hundreds of components spanning most of the mobile site in a massive services migration. Quickly dove into the team’s codebase and gained the team’s trust with ownership of our core systems. From June 2010 to October 2012 (2 years 5 months) Software Developer @ DSL bytecode, virtual machines, distributed processing, and cloud computing infrastructure. From June 2003 to May 2010 (7 years) Intern @ From May 2004 to June 2004 (2 months) Harvard University From 2005 to 2008 BS, Computer Science @ Northeastern University From 2000 to 2005 Daniel Silva is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Software Engineering, Software Development, Cloud Computing, Object Oriented Design, Computer Science, Software Design, Scalability, Algorithms, REST, Websphere, Perl, Web Applications, Java Enterprise Edition, Scheme