Specialties: distributed systems, parallel programming, fault tolerance, storage systems, networks, data privacy, web front end programming, iOS

Sr. Software Engineer @ I am working on the Supply Chain Optimization Technologies team at Amazon.com's NYC offices. My team is working on forecasting time series related to the Amazon.com global supply chain. From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Sr. Software Engineer @ - Etsy Wholesale: developer from prototype through launch and revenue. I owned payment processing, on-boarding, and data analysis. I contributed to all other aspects of the product. https://www.etsy.com/wholesale/ - Etsy Search: developer on iOS search screens, replacing legacy taxonomy with a new taxonomy. - Side projects: many performance/latency wins, automating away customer service emails, taught a SQL course. - Participated in many hiring loops. From October 2012 to July 2015 (2 years 10 months) Software Engineer @ Employee #10 at Wavii. Worked on infrastructure built on AWS, Ruby on Rails application, and various data science problems. From September 2010 to October 2012 (2 years 2 months) Software Development Engineer (Community) @ Working to improve the Customer Discussions web app. Providing useful business metrics to my team. From January 2010 to August 2010 (8 months) Software Development Engineer (S3) @ Worked on S3's high scale storage software. Investigated many time critical bugs and performance issues Mentored recent college hires From May 2008 to January 2010 (1 year 9 months) Software Development Engineer (Community) @ Joined Amazon and worked on the Customer Discussions web app Wrote code for each tier from front end through persistence Designed and coded key business metrics for my team using click stream data From June 2006 to May 2008 (2 years) Extreme Blue Technical Intern @ Learned about iterative development, databases, and RFID at IBM Almaden Research Center. Coded front end tier of my team's demo using Struts From June 2005 to August 2005 (3 months) System administrator / developer @ I worked for Brainlink while I was in high school. I was a sysadmin for their ISP business while also developing for their contract software projects. From 2000 to 2000 (less than a year)

BS, Computer Science @ Carnegie Mellon University From 2002 to 2006 High School, Computer Science @ Stuyvesant High School From 1998 to 2002 Spike Gronim is skilled in: Distributed Systems, Data Privacy, Fault Tolerance, Parallel Programming, Machine Learning, OOAD, Kernel, Cloud Computing, Scalability, Ruby on Rails, Hadoop, Git, MapReduce, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Natural Language Processing