Experience
Three internships, three different experiences. Big Tech infra, a tiny team where you’re half the roadmap, and fintech company. Mostly I built things; sometimes I argued for what to build next.
Amazon
Software Development Engineer Intern
Internship · Jun 2025 – Aug 2025 · 3 mos · Austin, Texas metro · On-site
- On storesec, shipped end-to-end audit logging for an agentic workflow service so automated runs and human touches both leave a trace you can reason about later.
- Stood up the surrounding infra with AWS CDK v2 (TypeScript) so the same stack could be reproduced across accounts instead of living in a brittle shell script nobody wanted to touch.
Stack and rhythm: Agile delivery, Dagger, CDK, Type/Java services, and the usual maze of AWS consoles.
Makase
Engineer / Product Intern
Internship · Apr 2024 – Sep 2024 · 6 mos · San Diego, CA · Remote
- Wore both product and engineering hats: framing problems, prioritizing bets, prototyping in Figma, and jumping into code when that was the shortest path to learning.
- Designed and shipped a web-scraping browser extension that held up against messy real sites, while other growth bets stayed short experiments that never became durable product.
SQL when pipelines existed, scraping and glue code when they didn’t, plus constant iteration with a tiny remote team.
Black Knight
Technology Product Management Intern
Internship · Jun 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · Jacksonville, FL · Hybrid
- Drafted and iterated API specifications and technical documentation for backend platforms so engineers had a single source of truth before build and during review.
- Worked with engineering and business stakeholders to tighten contracts, error models, and naming in a regulated mortgage stack where ambiguity shows up weeks later as integration bugs or rework.
Cross-functional reviews, structured spec templates, and enough mortgage-tech context to ask the right clarifying questions early.