Ron Searl
@ronsearl
Senior software engineer specializing in cloud-native microservices and scalable billing systems.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years building large-scale distributed systems and high-performance web platforms, primarily at Amazon. I specialize in cloud-native microservices on AWS, finance-grade subscription and billing systems, event-driven architectures, and AI-enabled backend workflows that improve reliability and transaction success.
At Amazon I led the transformation of Prime Video’s global subscription and billing platform into PCI-compliant microservices, introduced AI-assisted billing workflows, migrated APIs to a GraphQL federation gateway, and established observability and data pipelines to support ML-driven insights. I mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and deliver secure, scalable systems that serve millions of users.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led transformation of Prime Video’s global subscription and billing platform into PCI-compliant microservices handling millions of transactions, reducing frontend API latency by 30% and cutting incident resolution time by 35%.
Contributed to Prime Video playback platform modernization, migrating to a TypeScript HTML5 player and reducing production defects by 25% while improving bundle size and playback latency.
Built distributed media processing services to migrate transcoding workflows to AWS, improving scalability and reducing per-title processing costs while automating encoding pipelines.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science
2008 - 2012
Completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science with coursework in algorithms, systems, and software engineering.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Postman
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitLab
Istanbul
ESLint
Prettier
TSLint
SonarQube
Kubernetes
React Native
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
MariaDB
Memcached
Cassandra
CouchDB
Gmail
InVision
Node.js
Spring Boot
Android SDK
Next.js
Figma
Adobe XD
Zeplin
Microsoft Teams
Puppeteer
OpenCV
Redis
Terraform
Chai
SuperTest
Webpack
JavaScript
HTML5
Java
Kotlin
TensorFlow
PyTorch
scikit-learn
Keras
NLTK
Kafka
TypeORM
Firebase Realtime Database
Sequelize
Heroku
GraphQL
Firebase
Elasticsearch
WordPress
AWS Lambda
Serverless
Google Cloud Functions
Azure Functions
Amazon Aurora
TestNG
NGINX
Apache HTTP Server
Balsamiq
TestCafe
XGBoost
Hugging Face
LightGBM
Caddy
Vite
Task
Joomla
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