Evan Hsu
@evanhsu
Staff software engineer focused on scalable distributed systems and secure platforms.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years building Amazon platforms across Flex, Sustainability, Prime Now, and Advertising. I lead architecture for workflow orchestration, high-throughput APIs, and ML productionization, with a track record of improving reliability, scalability, and release velocity.
I’ve accelerated onboarding and CI/CD security patching—cutting deployments from ~3 weeks of manual coordination to under 2 days—and standardized secure app setup for 6+ teams. I also modernized iOS modules from Objective-C to Swift, lowering crashes from ~5% to below 1%, while strengthening AppSec posture through least-privilege IAM and secrets management.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Built Amazon platforms across Flex, Sustainability, Prime Now, and Advertising, including a multi-country driver onboarding system across 8 countries with Step Functions orchestration (~5 TPS sustained, 20 TPS peak) and DynamoDB idempotent state tracking. Improved reliability and release velocity by automating CI/CD security patching (cutting deployment cycles from ~3 weeks to under 2 days) and mo
Software Engineer
WorkForce Software
Jun 2014 - Sep 2015 (1 year 3 months)
Built Java backend features for EmpCenter, an enterprise workforce management system covering time, attendance, scheduling, and payroll for 250+ customers. Maintained Apache Tomcat services with MySQL, resolved 50+ backend defects within 6 months, and collaborated with QA/support/product to turn customer issues into reproducible test cases and durable fixes.
Education
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University of Michigan
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science Engineering
2010 - 2014
Earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering at the University of Michigan.
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