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Pedro Zamora

Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services
Seattle, WA

Pedro Zamora, smiling on a trail in the Cascades with a backpacking pack

Check out my resume and let's talk:
pedrozamora2000@gmail.com

currently

Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio

data and AI development platform · aws

One place to find your organization's data, query it, and build analytics, models, and generative AI apps on it — unifying Amazon EMR, Glue, Athena, Redshift, Bedrock, and SageMaker AI.

Building a centralized, AI-native data development platform.

quick wins

  • 32%

    fewer support tickets at launch

  • 120

    developer-hours saved every month

  • 1,170+

    customer accounts served

  • 191M

    pages crawled by a search engine I built

  • 2

    innovation award nominations

career high-level

SDE II

Amazon Web Services

Led a multi-team refactor of SageMaker Unified Studio's interface with Redshift end-to-end, adding authorization controls after customer feedback — nominated for 2 innovation awards.

Built CI/CD pipelines on CodePipeline and CodeBuild, enabling rapid iteration across 5 post-launch expansions. On-call engineer; wrote the team's runbook to centralize tribal knowledge.

  • AWS Redshift
  • CodePipeline
  • CDK

SDE I

Amazon Web Services

Launched SageMaker Unified Studio, a scalable data governance service. Used Lambda, SQS, and CDK to build CRUD APIs with async validation — cut support tickets 32% vs. private beta.

Built core frontend pages in React and TypeScript for 1,170+ external customer accounts, working closely with UX and PM.

  • Lambda
  • SQS
  • React
  • TypeScript

SDE Intern

Database Analytics & AI

Built a Self Service Dashboard so PMs could publish alerts and banners in the AWS Console directly — saved 120 developer-hours a month. Architected supporting APIs on Lambda and API Gateway.

  • React
  • Redux
  • Lambda

Software Engineer Intern

USHR Inc.

Maintained road-mapping software covering 500,000+ miles used by Nissan, Cadillac, and Rivian AV systems. Refactored publishing software for GM's 2021 contract — 19% EC2 usage improvement.

  • Python
  • AWS EC2

side projects

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01

Multi-threaded search engine

Crawled 191M pages using a standard library I wrote from scratch — 6,500 lines of C/C++, hash tables and sockets included.

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02

Weather balloon payload

Probably my favorite project to date. Went from learning to solder to launching sensors into the atmosphere. Won “Best Overall Design.”

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03

Smart mirror

Started as an answer to a daily annoyance. Hardest part wasn't the Raspberry Pi — it was the woodworking.

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04

Video streaming proxy

Adaptive bitrate, throughput estimation, and DNS load balancing. Cut buffering time by 40% across concurrent streams.

technologies

languages

  • C++
  • C
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • SQL
  • TypeScript

frameworks

  • Angular
  • Bootstrap
  • Electron
  • MongoDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • React
  • Redux
  • Tailwind

tools

  • AWS
  • AWS Lambda
  • CUDA
  • Git
  • Linux
  • macOS
  • MATLAB
  • PostGIS
  • Windows

education

University of Michigan — Ann Arbor

BSE Computer Science, minor in Business · May 2022

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off the clock

ironman

ironman

Two-time finisher at IRONMAN Victoria 70.3. Training for Barcelona 140.6 in October, which is exactly double and a fact I try not to dwell on. The swim is still the part I think about at 2am.

ski patrol

crystal mountain ski patrol

Volunteer medical patrol as an Outdoor Emergency Care Technician — wilderness EMT, WFR, and AIARE avalanche rescue. Weekends on the mountain with a radio and a toboggan, where the skiing turns out to be the easy part.

kona

my dog kona

Australian shepherd, Canadian by birth, brown eye on the left and blue on the right. Contributes nothing to the codebase, but is reliably the best part of coming home.