Software Development Engineer @ 2011-present | Similarities team Develop item similarities (e.g. Customers Who Bought Also Bought) features for Amazon retail. Work includes algorithmic and scaling work, data processing, systems design, machine learning, and more recently, also work on front-end UI. 2007-2011 | Personalization Platform team Developed personalization features (item similarities and personalized recommendations) for Amazon associates ad networks and subsidiaries. This included algorithmic and scaling work, large-scale distributed service architecture, data analysis and input on project direction. From July 2007 to Present (8 years 6 months) Greater Seattle AreaSDE Intern @ Personalized Merchandising Team Implemented a redesign of the "Your Browsing History" page, and performed analysis on the performance of clickstream systems that allowed the expansion of the number of viewed items stored. From June 2006 to August 2006 (3 months) Greater Seattle AreaQA Intern @ Tested VM emulation of the "NX bit," which prevents buffer overflow exploits by disallowing execution of code from the heap. From June 2005 to August 2005 (3 months)

BA, Computer Science @ University of California, Berkeley From 2003 to 2007 Carly Rector is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Recommender Systems, Machine Learning, Scalability, Algorithms, Software Design, Software Engineering, Amazon Web Services (AWS)