Marek Ventur
Senior Software Developer
Currently working for AWS's machine learning org, having moved there from Amazon Retail. First-day employee at gaming-startup Gamevy and data engineer at the music website Last.fm. Worked at IBM while doing my Bachelor.
I have worked on petabyte-scale databases all the way to one-off game prototypes. I have experience in leading teams and projects and my passion is for maths and algorithms, with a focus on research.
Helped design and build digital conference badges for the hacker camp Electromagnetic Field.
- Backend Java, Kotlin, Python
- Frontend JS, WebGL, HTML, CSS
- Data SQL, Hadoop, PyTorch
- Languages English, German, (Spanish)
Selected projects
- Frame classification: Research into categorizing Java methods by using unsupervised learning.
- Anomaly Detection: Prototyping, designing and launching CodeGuru Profiler's Anomaly Detection feature.
- Launching an AWS service Amazon CodeGuru Profiler. Leading UI and UX work
- Petabyte-scale database: Worked on low latency data store that acted as an entry point to Amazon's product pipeline, using one of the largest DynamoDB tables worldwide
- Realtime Scrobbles: Second-level-resolution of Last.fm's listening data, streamed via websockets
Employment history
AWS, Machine Learning (May 2019 - Present), London
Software Development Engineer
- Launched new AWS service
- Leading UX/UI for the AWS console component and the profiler visualizations.
- Prototyped, developed, designed and launched anomaly detection feature
Amazon (Oct 2017 - May 2019), London
Software Development Engineer
- High-level design and implementation to enable removal of legacy services.
- Day-to-day running of service, including tier-1 on-call shifts
- Performance optimisation
Gamevy (Aug 2013 - Sep 2017), London
Senior Developer/Project Manager
- Developing game concepts for the majority of Gamevy's games to date.
- Project management for various games
- Probabilistic modelling to verify mathematical correctness
Last.fm (Oct 2011 - Aug 2013), London
Web and Data Developer
- Data developer (Hadoop, Hive, SQL)
- Designed and implemented main parts of realtime charts
Education
Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Mannheim (Oct 2008 - Nov 2011)
Corporate Student Program, IBM, Germany
BSc Science, Business IT