Richard Bailey

I was given the task of building an application that helped move the Linux Workstation product closer to feature parity with its Windows sibling. My responsibilities included completion of the initial requirements document and internal request for comments, application design and implementation, as well as project timeline and regular progress updates to my mentor and manager. As an intern I was also held to all normal expectations of VMware developers such as maintaining good documentation, following company code style guides, and submitting my code to a semi-formal code review process.

My time as a GRA with GT-RNOC had me working in three major roles: TA for the classes our professors owned, mentor to student teams particpating in our annual IMS competition, and as a developer for projects to aid the lab, our students, and our industry partners. General tasks included assignment creation, project review and guidance, authoring sample code, and developing REST services to simplify LBS creation.

Like every amazon employee I had many hats during my tenure there. I worked on the Customer Reviews team and contributed to the release of RTR5. My next project was to assist in the design and construction of a system that would incentivize customers to author reviews. In addition to normal development tasks I spent a good portion of my time extending/troubleshooting the system that gathered our team's performance metrics.
Outside of individual tasks I was a part of the normal on-call rotation. This means that once every few weeks I wast the first contact point for any operational issues our team needed to address. On-call required an end-to-end understanding of how our service worked in order to respond to issues without being forced to wake senior teammates.