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Chris Olson

@chrisuser13

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Senior software engineer building scalable cloud and AI systems.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek hands-on roles building scalable cloud and AI systems in fast-moving, remote teams where I can impact product direction and mentor engineers.

Senior Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience building and operating full-stack systems—from backend microservices

and real-time data pipelines to customer-facing frontend features and cloud-native DevOps automation—with direct ownership

from design through production. At Amazon, delivered scalable services and experiences for Alexa’s smart home and

conversational shopping used across 100M+ monthly users and hundreds of millions of connected devices worldwide while

integrating ML-driven workflows and automated AWS deployments; earlier roles enhanced low-latency trading platforms at CME

Group and delivered enterprise solutions at Accenture.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software Engineer

Current

Amazon

Nov 2020 - Present (5 years 2 months)

Built and operated scalable microservices and real-time data pipelines for Alexa Smart Home and the Rufus conversational shopping assistant, serving 100M+ monthly users and hundreds of millions of devices while improving reliability and ML-driven relevance.

Senior Software Engineer

CME Group Inc

Jun 2016 - Nov 2020 (4 years 5 months)

Developed and enhanced full-stack applications for electronic trading and post-trade systems using Java, Spring Boot, and
ReactJS to support high-volume financial transactions.

Java SBE Blockchain Python PostgreSQL Redis Docker Kubernetes Terraform Golang Ruby on Rails Node.Js Java JavaScript (Node.Js Kafka Angular .NET .NET Core Azure Azure DevOps Azure Synapse

Senior Programmer

Accenture

Jun 2010 - Jul 2016 (6 years 1 month)

Delivered and supported enterprise Java and .NET applications for CMT clients, migrated components to service-based architectures and contributed to Azure and Salesforce implementations that improved operational workflows.