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Austin Gentry

Software Development Engineer II, New York NY March 2021 - Present

Operated a Kotlin based service built on AWS Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, ECS, Fargate, Kotlin
Worked with security team to eliminate security vulnerabilities and unblock on time launch of general availability
Improved team integration testing infrastructure to reduce repeated code and improve test reliability
Collaborated with external team to implement new capabilities for interacting with Pull Requests using CodeStar Connections

Software Development Engineer I / II, Seattle WA July 2019 - March 2021

Managed services based on Java, Spring MVC, Apache Tomcat, S3, Route53, Cloudfront, SQS, SNS
Participated and led incident responses as an Amazon Tier 1 resolver and oncall operator
Created feature flag platform based on AWS Appconfig to increase deployment safety for new features
Developed and managed GDPR compliance program for entire AWS Marketing Organization

Full Stack Developer, Philadelphia PA September 2017 to June 2019

Created full stack web application for watershed delineation including Python, Django, Typescript, React, AWS Lambda, and Postgres
Developed software architecture for scientific collaboration, emphasizing modularity and code reuse
Oversaw 5-person team in the refactoring of the Generalized Watersheds Loading Functions–Enhanced model which led to 400% performance increase

Research Assistant September 2016 to June 2019

Built collaborative data pipeline using Jupyter Notebooks, Tensorflow, and Python
Developed neural network classifier for dual input activity classification using Matlab
Used OpenCV to take visual measurements of oscillator performance

Full Stack Developer, Philadelphia PA September 2015 to September 2017 (Part time)

Built proof of concept end to end data visualization using MongoDB, Nodejs, and Typescript.
Developed interactive comment system including database schema, endpoints, and React frontend
Designed testing fixtures for legacy code, bringing application test coverage to above 90%
Participated in sprint planning and agile development task

A. Gentry, W. Mongan, B. Lee, O. Montgomery and K. Dandekar, "Activity Segmentation Using Wearable Sensors for DVT/PE Risk Detection," 2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Milwaukee, WI, USA, 2019, pp. 477-483, doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2019.10252.
Haag, Scott, Gentry,Austin. A Watershed Delineation Algorithm for 2D Flow Direction Grids. AWRA GIS X. Orlando Fl, April 22-25, 2018
Gentry,Austin. Building an Application Programming Interface to Provide Nutrient Hotspot and Concentration Modelling. AWRA GIS X. Orlando Fl, April 22-25, 2018
Haag, Scott, Gentry,Austin, and Shokoufandeh, Ali. “Creation of a Data Model to Retrieve Constrained Watershed Boundaries”. 9th International Environmental Modelling & Software Conference 2018. Submitted for publication March 2018.