Open to L6 opportunities

Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon5+ years.

I build and own financially critical systems at Amazon scale — billions in licensed asset value automated, billions in payment risk mitigated, and pipelines whose journal entries flow into public quarterly earnings. Zero major incidents. I drive multi-org initiatives from blank page to production, catch security gaps that external audits missed, and deliver 30× performance improvements on inherited broken systems.

By the Numbers

Impact at a glance — scope generalised; exact figures available under NDA.

Multi-$B

Licensed asset value managed by systems I own end-to-end

$Bn+

International payment risk mitigated via pipelines I designed

Multi-$M

GL journal entries automated — flowing into public quarterly earnings

Thousands

Manual finance-ops hours eliminated through automation

30×

Query performance improvement on an inherited system (3 hrs → 6 min)

Customer Obsession Award winner

Top <10%

Performance rating, 2025 — top engineering tier

Heavy

Individual delivery volume — sustained high-throughput in 2025

Flagship Projects

Four examples of the scope, depth, and judgment I operate at.

Amortisation cap enforcement at content scale

Owned the technical design and delivery of an enforcement system spanning a six-figure number of run-of-series content licences across multiple currencies. Coordinated Accounting, Acquisitions, Cost Allocation, and PM stakeholders across organisations with VP-level visibility.

Outcome

Multi-billion in licensed asset value now managed automatically; zero major incidents post-launch.

L6 Signal

Ambiguous, org-wide problem → clear design doc → on-time delivery with full stakeholder alignment.

International SVOD payment pipeline — first of its kind

Designed and delivered a first-of-its-kind international SVOD payment pipeline. Worked directly with Prime Video Business, Finance, Legal, and Accounting teams across time zones.

Outcome

Thousands of manual processing hours eliminated; billions in payment risk now correctly managed.

L6 Signal

Cross-org initiative with no playbook — drove it from blank page to production.

Security gap caught beyond external audit

While delivering an access control enhancement, identified a product-line-specific edit access vulnerability that an external red-team security audit had missed. Proactively flagged and fixed; acknowledged at the VP level.

Outcome

Security gap closed before it reached production; trust established with senior leadership.

L6 Signal

Ownership beyond scope, security judgment, and proactive stakeholder communication.

Reconciliation pipeline — 30× performance

Inherited a long-broken reconciliation alarm. Diagnosed the root cause — hundreds of DB round-trips per run — refactored to batched queries, and migrated to a federated query engine for scale.

Outcome

Runtime reduced from 3 hours to 6 minutes — a 30× improvement.

L6 Signal

No one asked — took it on, fixed the underlying architecture, not just the symptom.

Amazon Leadership Principles — Evidence

Every claim is anchored to a named artefact or outcome.

Customer Obsession

Two-time Customer Obsession Award winner from finance stakeholders; consistently shipped ahead of schedule for accounting partners.

Ownership

Drove a billion-dollar amortisation programme solo through a team-lead absence; owned Sev-2 response for a partner-payment delay incident affecting dozens of contracts.

Invent & Simplify

Built an automated notification pipeline for finance template changes on my own initiative — no one asked.

Are Right, A Lot

Pushed back on a proposed downstream integration after identifying that most required fields were missing or wrong; wrote a full technical assessment that prevented a misaligned build.

Dive Deep

Diagnosed a Hibernate flush-order race condition only reproducible outside debug mode; resolved an n+1 join production outage; designed a federated-query migration path from a constrained warehouse.

Deliver Results

Top-tier annual performance rating; high individual delivery volume sustained across the year; all major projects shipped on time.

Raise the Bar

Certified interviewer (multiple loops); selected as an internal AI Bar Raiser driving AI-native adoption across the team.

Career Timeline

What I'm Looking For

L6 / Senior SDE role at Amazon — or equivalent Staff Engineer at a top-tier company. I'm drawn to systems with real financial or operational consequence: where correctness matters and the blast radius of a bug is measured in dollars, not pixels. Open to London or remote-friendly roles.

What I'm Building

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I don't stop at my day job. Outside Amazon I ship real products — because the best engineers build things, not just maintain them.

Noorlock

Launching

Noorkin product — Android, iOS app, and browser extension to block addictive short-form video feeds.

LeetView

Live

Chrome extension — tracks LeetCode submissions locally, no server, no tracking. Live on the Chrome Web Store.

Carrot Soft

Active

Software & digital marketing studio. Helping businesses grow through product and performance.

emes3ye.com

Live

This site — built with Next.js 14, TypeScript, MDX. Designed, written, and shipped by me.

Ready to talk?

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