Shirom Makkad
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShirom Makkad is a Software Engineer II at AWS with 10 years of experience building high-scale, production Rust services for Amazon Verified Permissions and designing secure authorization APIs. He specializes in low-latency caching (Redis and on-host refresh-ahead/LRU) and distributed systems reliability, running CI/CD across thousands of hosts and supporting 24/7 on-call with zero planned downtime. Shirom has contributed to Cedar-based open-source authorization tooling and implemented IAM features including OIDC, JWT, mTLS, and AWS KMS. Beyond AWS, he pursues ambitious side projects in AI and computer vision—from an AI for heart disease diagnosis to robotics vision and desktop apps—demonstrating a knack for taking large, open-ended ideas from prototype to production.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityPembroke Hill School
Github Skills (176)
pihole10
docker-container10
noise10
jetbrains10
inotifywait10
inotify10
ide10
ngrok10
led-controller10
balena10
taskbar9
rust9
proxy9
windows9
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/avp-local-agent
Dec 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 23 reviews, 12 PRs in 1 year 4 months
ShiromMakkad/docker-pihole-sync
Jan 2020 - Dec 2022
A Docker Container To Sync Two Piholes
Contributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 3 years
docker-containerdockerpiholeinotifyinotifywait
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