Osman Ozdemir

Amazon Web Services, New York, NY

• Pioneered the development of the Customer Profiles product, implementing the UI using TypeScript and React, achieving a successful launch within a tight three-month timeline for Re-Invent 2020.
• Revamped the client-side codebase, introducing a modern stack complemented by robust pipelines, integration tests, and canary tests, enhancing code quality and deployment efficiency.
• Engineered AWS infrastructure components, including S3 Buckets, ECS Fargate instances, and DynamoDB Tables, utilizing AWS CDK for streamlined infrastructure as code.
• Developed a shared component library, packaged as an npm module, facilitating reuse across multiple AWS consoles, promoting consistency and reducing development time.
• Expanded the Customer Profiles product by integrating new features, notably enabling connections to streaming APIs via EventBridge, enhancing real-time data processing capabilities.
• Led a project to create a component library and drag-and-drop designer for Amazon Connect, empowering customers to design interfaces for their agents, thereby improving user experience and customization.
• Mentored new hires and peers on frontend best practices and AWS CDK, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning.
• Authored comprehensive unit tests with Jest and React Testing Library, integration tests with Cypress, and canary tests with Puppeteer, significantly improving test coverage and reliability.
• Conducted over 90 interviews, successfully hiring more than a dozen skilled frontend engineers, contributing to the growth and strength of the AWS engineering team.

Enigma Technologies, New York, NY

• Sole Frontend Engineer responsible for transforming the fully client-side application (enigma.com) into a server-side rendered application, enhancing performance and SEO.
• Collaborated closely with design and product teams to develop a suite of React components, improving user interface consistency and functionality.
• Created a visual demonstration of the Enigma Small Business API, effectively showcasing product capabilities to clients and stakeholders.
• Established a comprehensive Cypress test suite, achieving full coverage of the frontend application and ensuring robust quality assurance.
• Devised and implemented an SEO strategy that resulted in over 15 million pages being crawled and cached by search engines, significantly increasing site visibility.
• Participated in the recruitment process by interviewing prospective frontend engineering candidates, contributing to team expansion.

Compass, New York, NY

• Led the migration of AngularJS components to React, systematically integrating them into the existing codebase to modernize the application architecture.
• Developed new UI features using both AngularJS and ReactJS, enhancing user engagement and application functionality.
• Implemented functional tests using Cypress, which significantly reduced the number of bugs reaching production and improved overall application stability.
• Authored unit tests for various API endpoints in Golang, increasing test coverage from 0% to 70%, thereby enhancing backend reliability.
• Collaborated with designers during the UI/UX design phase, providing insights to create intuitive user flows that enhanced user satisfaction.
• Mentored new hires, facilitating their onboarding and integration into the development team.

Shopspring, New York, NY

• Quickly acclimated to the development environment, updating the engineering onboarding documentation and contributing code to production within the first week.
• Identified inefficiencies in the development workflow and proposed solutions for linting, testing, and continuous integration, leading to improved development processes.
• Implemented Prettier as a linting solution with commit hooks, reducing linting and commit times for JavaScript-related work by 15-20%.
• Integrated analytics and A/B testing libraries, including Optimizely-X, Amplitude, and Segment, across both frontend (JavaScript) and backend (Python and Golang) codebases, enhancing data-driven decision-making capabilities.
• Developed a personalization feature allowing customers to save their measurements and receive tailored product recommendations, improving user experience and engagement.

Lifion by ADP, New York, NY

• Led the migration of a large monolithic codebase into microservices, ensuring scalability and maintainability.
• Designed and implemented an attribute-based access control (ABAC) system compliant with the XACML specification.
• Spearheaded the development of a solution for integration testing between microservices, creating a visual interface to define chained asynchronous operations and a test runner to parse and execute tests in sequence.
• Developed a Docker image to enable containerized Selenium JavaScript tests on headless browsers, integrating these tests into Jenkins builds for seamless CI/CD pipelines.
• Designed and built an intuitive user interface for defining graph database traversals using React-Redux and plain SVG.
• Developed the frontend component for an authentication service, including bootstrapping a React-Redux boilerplate and implementing React components for login, sign-up, and password recovery workflows.

InRhthym, New York, NY

• Amplify Education (Client)

  • Developed a reporting and statistics tool to measure and compare student academic success and college readiness, currently utilized by school districts across 13 PARC Consortium states.
  • Designed and implemented interactive React components to visualize student data through dynamic graphs, charts, and grid structures.
  • Introduced a Karma-Jasmine-Istanbul framework for JavaScript unit testing, establishing a robust testing process and increasing unit test coverage to 90%.

• Motor Information Systems (Client)

  • Resolved frontend-related bugs for a .NET-Marionette web application during the final stages of the project, successfully closing over 500 tickets within a 2-month period.
  • Updated Marionette to the latest version, refactored legacy code, and ensured compliance with the new framework standards.

• InRhythm Labs

  • Developed a reusable MEAN stack boilerplate to streamline future project setups.
  • Built an internal web application for task tracking and resource management, enabling the identification of inefficiencies and optimizing resource allocation.
  • Mentored new hires, providing guidance on industry best practices and fostering professional growth.

Buncee, Calverton, NY

• Joined as the second engineer on the team, initially hired as a frontend engineer but quickly expanded responsibilities to full-stack development.
• Refactored and modernized legacy code, restructuring it to adhere to a proper MVC pattern for improved maintainability and scalability.
• Designed and implemented a fast, responsive UI for an interactive rich presentation design tool, enhancing user experience and performance.
• Configured and deployed a load balancer for Apache servers to optimize resource distribution and improve system reliability.
• Designed database schemas, wrote stored procedures, and established table relationships in SQL, ensuring database normalization and eliminating SQL injection vulnerabilities.
• Conducted technical interviews and mentored new hires, fostering team growth and knowledge sharing.

Computer Science (B.S.)

Computer Science