Edward T. Hietter
Address available on request
Mesa, AZ
Mesa, AZ
- Expert in Java and modern C++. Comfortable with C and Python
- Familiar with computer architecture (see MMU project in my Github)
- Debugging and designing high performance, high traffic, distributed systems across teams
- Embedded systems skills, such as Arduino
- Very experienced working in a linux environment
- Know how to analyze and improve algorithm performance/find and fix memory leaks
- Comfortable reading and designing circuit schematics
- Team leader at Amazon. Mentor early-career engineers, and people from other teams frequently come to me with questions about systems we own
B.S. Computer Engineering
(Minor in Astrophysics)
- University of New Mexico (GPA: 4.00)
May 2016
Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque, NM
Software Development Engineer II - Amazon.com
Key Responsibilities
- Design/implement highly available, high traffic services used by Amazon sellers all over the world
- Design/implement remote interfaces and library interfaces
- Work with product to determine requirements, provide estimates, and break work down into tasks that can be implemented by myself and by teammates
- Daily tech stack uses Java, Git, TypeScript, Linux, and various AWS technologies including CloudFormation, CloudWatch, ECS/Fargate, EC2
- Mentor early career engineers via 1 on 1s, pair programming, and code reviews
- Expert at writing testable code (unit and integration tests)
August '19 - Current
Tempe, AZ
Tempe, AZ
Computer Engineer - Voss Scientific
Primary developer on the LUCS System
- Created a diagnostic system that provides the user with a live visualization of data being collected by various instruments, including infrared/near infrared cameras, spectrometers, and an energy meter
- LUCS runs on a server and clients interact with it via a web application written using Django on the backend and Angular 7 on the frontend
- Responsible for writing both the front and backend and designing the API that connects the two
- Very focused on usability, including graceful error handling and creating a pleasant user experience
Development/maintenance on Automated Susceptibility Test Assembly (ASTA)
- ASTA is an automated system that can find frequencies at which high power microwaves cause errors in digital hardware
- Wrote a live display feature that showed real-time results to the system operator (C++)
- Created post-processing and analysis tools used by physicists to interpret the vast amount of data collected by ASTA (Python)
- Operated the system
- Wrote software to control oscilliscopes and digitizers
May '16 - May '19
Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque, NM
Software Developer -
Indie Film Central
- Indie Film Central was a start-up which provides a video streaming platform for independent films
- Built the site from the ground-up using PHP/MySQL and Ruby for the backend, and HTML, CSS, JavaScript/jQuery for the frontend
- Interfaced with Amazon Web Services EC2 and S3 to provide some of the website functionality
Jan '14 - May '16
Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque, NM
Registration Wizard Developer (Web) -
U.S. Department of Defense
- Tools/Technology used: Tomcat development server, MySQL databases, Spring Framework, Eclipse IDE, Linux OS, Java
- Technical lead for the development of a web application designed to facilitate the registration process of systems across multiple databases
- Developed a RESTful API to allow for communication with each database
- Wrote an Interface Control Document, describing how to interface with the application
- Worked closely with two separate teams to develop the application
May-August 2013
Fort Meade, MD
Fort Meade, MD
Web Developer -
Stowebridge Promotion Group
- Languages: PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Tools: Notepad++ text editor; MySQL databases; Filezilla FTP client; Windows OS
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Interfaced with the following APIs to build e-commerce site:
- FedEx Web Services, to calculate shipping costs (used PHP as a SOAP client)
- Payflow HTTPS Interface, to handle credit card transactions (used PHP)
- Sanmar Data Library, for catalog information (used PHP/MySQL)
- E-commerce site fulfilled needs which were not met by the current site.
Dec '12 - Jan '13
Chandler, AZ
Chandler, AZ
Web Developer -
Stowebridge Promotion Group
- Developed front and back end of corporate website for both a mobile and a desktop version
- Need fulfilled: The new site presented the company in a more attractive and customer-friendly manner
- See: http://www.stowebridge.com
May-August
2011 and 2012
Chandler, AZ
2011 and 2012
Chandler, AZ
Peer Review Application Developer - Mesa Community College
- Created web application which allows students to provide anonymous feedback about each other's in-class presentations
- Instructor has access to the same feedback, along with who wrote it
- Languages: PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Freelance project
2009 - present
Class Registration Application Developer - Mirabelli Fine Arts Studio
- Created web application for class registration
- Languages: PHP, SQL, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
- Freelance project
2009 - present
Online Book Exchange Developer
- Website application to facilitate the sale of textbooks between Seton Catholic High School students
- Languages: PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS
- Summer 2012: 770 books posted, 430 sold
- Volunteer project
May 2011
UNM Club Golf Team Founder/President
- Responsible for Recruitment/Advertising, Budgeting, Organizing Club Practices
- Secured a discounted greens fee for club members by working with the UNM North Golf Course
Jan '14 - May '16
- Mars: I want to be part of the organization that sends the first manned mission to Mars.
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Started experimenting with web development and Adobe Flash game development 9 years ago
- Put up a website using HTML and Adobe Dreamweaver as a text editor to showcase these games
- Fitness enthusiast: enjoy playing basketball, golf, baseball, ping pong, racquetball, and weight lifting