Jason Haugen

Fullstack Engineer

I'm a fullstack software engineer with 4+ years of experience working on large scale customer-focused projects at Amazon and Amazon Web Services. If you've ever used Amazon on your phone (website or app) - you've seen my work.

I left AWS to travel and coach WTA tennis professional Fernanda Contreras-Gomez. I'm now back in Austin where I've continued coaching tennis while working on some side projects to prepare for my next software role.

I'm openly looking for my next opportunity. Find my full resume here and contact me on LinkedIn if you want to get in touch!

Experience

Amazon Web Services

October 2019 - June 2022

At AWS I worked on the EC2 Integrations team. My job was to improve how other projects worked with EC2. My work was split between internal and external projects, with many of the external ones relating to Kubernetes.

Internally, I did projects for the EC2-Fleet and the EKS teams, I created our team onboarding guide, presented a monthly recorded learning series, and mentored a college intern into a full-time hire.

Amazon

July 2018 - October 2019

At Amazon I worked on the mobile homepage. My team was responsible for everything* that shows up when you open the mobile app or visit the Amazon website on your phone. My work was used around the world in every region Amazon operated in.

* not including the top or bottom navigation bars

homepage showcase

Besides creating and managing the content shown on the homepage, my other priorities were reducing P90 latency, hosting international office hours, and responding to issues during an on-call rotation. I worked closely with a remote team in Seattle to successfully migrate our platform code from Perl to Java.

Projects

  1. Beaten Path

    A turn-based, tactical RPG written in C# on Unity. This is my friend's game - I contributed to the UI and path finding algorithms. We've been working on it for a few years now. Find it on Steam.

  2. Full YouTube Theater

    A Firefox add-on (JavaScript) that expands the size of the YouTube theater view. Available here with sourcecode on GitHub.

    default theaterfull yt theater

  3. This website!

    This website was built with Next.js (TypeScript, React) and Tailwind CSS.