Sammy Sherman

Software Engineer

Amazon•  June 2022 - Present

Core team in the Recruiting Technology organization with a primary focus on the infrastructure and cross-cutting functionality of HireWebsite - the primary tool used by recruiters, We provide a central framework for integration, UI, testing, deployment, and monitoring capabilities to ensure a nimble, stable, and cohesive user experience. Key accomplishments: - Drove an initiative to reduce P90 critical feature latency resulting in a 67% reduction on the page owned by our team and a 54% reduction in aggregate across the entire website for over 100,000 unique users totaling over 4 million page loads per month saving 16,000 productive hours per week across Amazon recruiter and user base. - Re-architected website asset distribution to serve from S3 using CloudFront with trusted key groups to control access to private content resulting in a 56% increase in successful asset loads during the 3 hour duration of every deployment and a 38% aggregate P90 critical feature latency reduction across the website. - Reduced website package build time by 45% saving over 400 developers roughly 280 cumulative productive hours per month. - Developed a proof of concept using module federation for the front-end of the next iteration of the website resulting in buy-in and approval from stakeholders shaping development methods for over 400 developers across 30 teams.

Software Engineer

Hy-Vee•  October 2021 - June 2022

- Revamped the vaccine consent form to ensure it is fully accessible and adheres to the WCAG 2.1 AA standard. - Improved load time of pharmacy pages by an average of 50% by developing an effective caching routine for recurring GraphQL calls. - Reduced front-end test execution time by nearly 2 minutes and eliminated flaky tests resulting in a quicker CI/CD process. - Implemented the first iteration of digital vaccine records in compliance with the HL7 FHIR standard and SMART Health Cards Framework. - Technologies: React, Redux, React Context, Jest, Styled components, Sanity, Apollo, GraphQL, .NET/C#, LINQ, GCP, Docker, and Concourse.

Solutions Developer

Kum & Go•  March 2019 - October 2021

- Recreated functionality for viewing security camera footage from a browser after vendor discontinued web support. - Co-established a design system to standardize our UI/UX and provide a collection of reusable web components. - Improved the ability for leadership to manage and deploy tasks by redesigning and rebuilding our task management tool as a mobile-first PWA hosted in the cloud. - Increased the efficiency of in-store operations by developing a native Android application for receiving and completing tasks. - Integrated Firebase into our Android applications, significantly improving our ability to detect and resolve issues. - Technologies: .NET/C#, EF Core, LINQ, JavaScript, Angular 9+, Svelte, Python, Kotlin, Java, HTML, CSS, Identity Server, IIS, and Azure.

Full Stack Developer

Iowa State University•  January 2018 - March 2019

- Introduced testing frameworks and CI/CD pipelines to improve code quality and streamline the build and release process. - Automated database and website backups for better protection from data loss and faulty code. - Improved students' ability to estimate their financial aid awards and total cost of attendance by redesigning and rebuilding existing outdated tools. - Designed and maintained WordPress-based websites for the Office of Financial Aid and Division of Student Affairs. - Technologies: PHP, Laravel, Eloquent, WordPress, JavaScript, React/Preact, MySQL, Linux, Apache, HTML, CSS, and Bash.