I'm a backend and sometimes full-stack software engineer at AWS.

I prioritize a really smart team to work with, learn from, and mentor; a balance of shipping code and leading technical decisions; staying close to the user; and the opportunity to have a big impact.

Current work

I'm currently at AWS, where I'm a software engineer working on migrations for the (open source) OpenSearch project.

Before that, I worked on architecture and infrastructure for Amazon Care until it was shut down. In the ~5 years before I came to Amazon, I was at a couple different medical/health startups: Alan, Bainbridge Health and Butterfly Network.

I've lived in New York, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, and Paris, but home is now (and for good) Denver, Colorado.

A few recent and in-progress side projects

  • Railway Terminus - A custom dashboard for monitoring Railway deployments on e-ink displays.
  • AI-assisted Commercial Property Management - Answering service, triage, and solution suggestions via AI for commercial property management. React frontend & Python backend (FastAPI, FastMCP), using ElevenLabs, Twilio, and OpenAI API.
  • Yoto Today in History - Daily playlist generator for Yoto audio players, built with Python backend and TypeScript frontend, with Yoto, ElevenLabs, and OpenAI APIs.
  • Operational Report Generator - Next.JS web app for commercial property managers to generate monthly PDF reports, with embedded images, tables, etc. Currently supporting 18 properties.
  • Lafayette Dealer - A RAG-based LLM agent to answer questions about house rules for board games.
  • PR-to-JIRA-Issue - browser extension to create JIRA issues from Github Pull Request comments.
  • Lease Generator - An web app to perform sophisticated template completion in docx files for efficient custom legal document generation.

Get in touch

To contact me, try email: [anything]@mikayla.codes