Francisco Manuel Soto Ramírez

SDE2 @Amazon | Author of 21,000+ subs Newsletter (strategizeyourcareer.com)

Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain

About

https://strategizeyourcareer.com I'm a Software Development Engineer at Amazon. 1:1s with my managers were not enough for me to explore all the career topics I care about. So I decided to start writing.

Experience

  • Amazon (Full-time · 4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Software Development Engineer II
      Jan 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

      Software Development and Architecture for Ring. - Owning multiple critical cloud-based services that help customers protect their homes and control them from their phones with devices such as video doorbells, home security cameras or alarm systems. - Transitioning these services into modern architectures and Amazon's ecosystem after Ring's acquisition

    • Software Development Engineer II
      Apr 2023 - Jan 2024 · 10 mos

      Software development and architecture for Amazon Retail. - I designed and led the implementation of a scalable service to expand the AddToCart feature on the Search page to 90% of the Search Traffic - I led multiple iterations of expansion of AddToCart feature in Search page, amounting to over $1bn yearly revenue - I was part of the design review group of the large InTech organization, contributing to technical designs from any team in the org

    • Software Development Engineer I
      Sep 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Software development and architecture for Amazon retail - Designed and built a new page template coordinating with 3 partner teams, integrating in 2 services and managing our own infrastructure. - Designed and led an iteration with small and CX changes of a 1M daily impressions layout toggle - Implemented read use case and GDPR compliance for new service supporting high requests/s (20k avg, 45k max) - Unblocked a project getting wrong business data for 1 month caused by a bug in network retries in another service - Reduced with an in-memory cache the backend latency of a 1-column mobile layout for hardlines from +2ms to -13ms - Wrote a postmortem on the importance of finding/asking for clear API specifications of APIs you consume