Summary
Daniel Heyde is a Full Stack Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, high-throughput systems for Amazon Kindle, where he has led billion-record migrations and engineered anti-plagiarism and content-inspection pipelines protecting tens of thousands of books daily. He blends backend expertise in Kotlin and Java with frontend skills in TypeScript and React, and applies AWS services (DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, API Gateway) to optimize both data processing and user-facing performance. Known for reducing latency on one of Kindle Direct Publishing’s most visited sites, he enjoys proving performance gains through small, practical prototypes that inform larger architectural changes. Currently based in Seattle, he’s deepening his system design and scalable architecture knowledge while continuing to focus on data integrity and operational efficiency at scale.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo