Logan Hood - Software Development Engineer

I’m at my best as a hands-on-keyboard technical leader and teacher, working in and across an organization to drive engineering excellence. To me, effective software engineering leadership comes down to helping software teams do the right things, at the right time, in the right way.

Professional Experience

2014-Present - SDE at AWS

Senior Software Development Engineer, Amazon Web Services, Herndon VA

I designed and built systems, wrote software, and provided operational support for various EC2 products, including VPC, Outposts, and Local Zones. More detail on specific projects available by request.

2013 - SDE Intern on Amazon GameCircle

GameCircle was a platform for Amazon Kindle third-party game developers. I built a a web portal for developers to bulk-import leaderboard and achievement data from other mobile gaming platforms.

Skills

Software development

My primary languages are Kotlin, Java, Ruby, and Bash, with some work in Rust, Python, C#, Typescript, and SQL.

Distributed concurrent systems

Extensive experience designing, implementing, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems - request/reply services, data distribution systems, and software-defined networking appliances.

Education