Logan Hood - Software Development Engineer

I am currently professionally and financially satisfied working as a Principal Engineer at AWS, but I am open to new opportunities. I strongly prefer fully-remote positions, but I’m willing to consider hybrid positions in the Charlotte, NC metro area.

Two (broad) areas I’m interested in for the future:

  1. Security; not compliance box-checking and rent-seeking, but meaningful improvements that provides privacy and safety for real people.
  2. Efficiency; getting more done with fewer kilowatts and less e-waste.

Professional Experience

2014-Present - SDE at Amazon Web Services

I designed and built systems, wrote software, and provided operational support for various EC2 products, including VPC, Outposts, and Local Zones.

Most recently I’ve worked on second-generation AWS Outpost Racks and on improvements to AWS Local Zones.

Title/promo history:

2013 - SDE Intern - 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

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

I am experienced with leading complex, multi-team software projects through the software development lifecycle, from design to launch to deprecation.

I particularly have expertise in designing, implementing, and operating large-scale distributed backend systems - request/reply services, data distribution systems, and software-defined networking appliances.

Education