ex-Amazon Sr Principal Engineer / CMU CS

Senior technical leader and inventor with 35+ patents and a proven track record delivering large-scale systems, cloud services, and scalable infrastructure for both technical and customer focused products. Significant experience shaping technical culture, mentoring high-performing engineering orgs, and driving architectural clarity across complex orgs. Seeking to re-engage engineering skills in senior Principal/Staff Engineer roles where deep technical leadership, creative insights into simplifying problems, ambiguity requires clarification, and executional focus are needed to bring product visions to life. Preferably building with Go, Rust, or Python. SKILLS / STRENGTHS • Scalable / Highly Available / Distributed Systems • Simplifying & Clarifying Complex Solutions • Strong Bias for Action & Execution • Creative Problem Solving & Innovation • Technical Leadership • Unify Cross-Engineering Organizations • Mentorship & Talent Development