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Frank Ji

Engineering

Amazon

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Toronto, ON, Canada~13.4 yrs in the field
Software Development
Algorithms
Web Development
Back-end Developers
Full-stack
Business Intelligence Development
SaaS
AWS Cloud
Node.js
Python
Java
JavaScript
SQL
React.js
Microsoft Development
Software Consulting
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About

Frank is a seasoned professional currently working as a software engineer at Amazon. He previously served as the VP of engineering at Penfield.AI, a Toronto AI startup pioneering in empowering human-machine intelligence in the cybersecurity space. Frank also worked as a senior engineer at Meta's enterprise trust organization, helping to build Facebook's privacy and compliance software infrastructures. He also worked on IBM WebSphere Java Runtime, which powered many Fortune 500 Java applications.

Experience

About 13.4 yrs of professional experience, estimated from the roles below (overlaps counted once).

  1. Software Development Engineer

    Amazon

    Jan 2022Present

    Redesigned the Amazon Author API back end using AWS stacks. The newly improved service can send internal communication to millions of Amazon employees and alumni with a much improved peak TPS of 50,000 from the previous 2,000 TPS. Designed and developed the Amazon internal CMS tool in React and Next.js that is used to author internal communications. Streamlined deployment to AWS using AWS CDK scripts.

  2. Vice President of Engineering

    Penfield.AI

    Jan 2022Present

    Launched a fully featured Penfield.AI security solution in five months from a demo project. Demonstrated product repeatability with multiple customer deployments of different integrations and cloud environments. Led the team to create the monitoring and on-call strategy for the product. Worked with the sales team to create the product roadmap to support the sales goal and long-term product vision.

  3. Senior Enterprise Software Engineer

    Meta

    Jan 2021Jan 2022

    Scaled the Facebook risk management application from one internal customer to seven customers. Extended the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) compliance controls to internal teams. Built the data classification feature that scans and reports the presence of personal identifying information (PII) data in the Facebook internal databases.

  4. Staff Software Engineer

    IBM

    Jan 2013Jan 2021

    Migrated IBM WebSphere observability features to the Red Hat OpenShift platform. Created and delivered new features for open-source Java Runtime Environment technologies. Designed and developed the diagnostic plans feature to assist developers in resolving intermittent runtime problems in web containers.

  5. Software Engineer

    International Financial Data Services

    Jan 2012Jan 2012

    Developed multiple iOS MVP apps that helped the team win new contracts. Prototyped a banking MVP app that utilizes speech recognition to perform daily banking activities. Prototyped a WPF application to demonstrate client activities across the globe using Bing Map API. Designed and developed an MVP receipt scanning iOS application using OpenCV.

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