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Software Development Engineer II, New York NY March 2021 - Present

• Operated a Kotlin based service built on AWS Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, ECS, Fargate, Kotlin
• Worked with security team to eliminate security vulnerabilities and unblock on time launch of general availability
• Improved team integration testing infrastructure to reduce repeated code and improve test reliability
• Collaborated with external team to implement new capabilities for interacting with Pull Requests using CodeStar Connections

Software Development Engineer I / II, Seattle WA July 2019 - March 2021

• Managed services based on Java, Spring MVC, Apache Tomcat, S3, Route53, Cloudfront, SQS, SNS
• Participated and led incident responses as an Amazon Tier 1 resolver and oncall operator
• Created feature flag platform based on AWS Appconfig to increase deployment safety for new features
• Developed and managed GDPR compliance program for entire AWS Marketing Organization

Full Stack Developer, Philadelphia PA September 2017 to June 2019

• Created full stack web application for watershed delineation including Python, Django, Typescript, React, AWS Lambda, and Postgres
• Developed software architecture for scientific collaboration, emphasizing modularity and code reuse
• Oversaw 5-person team in the refactoring of the Generalized Watersheds Loading Functions–Enhanced model which led to 400% performance increase

Research Assistant September 2016 to June 2019

• Built collaborative data pipeline using Jupyter Notebooks, Tensorflow, and Python
• Developed neural network classifier for dual input activity classification using Matlab
• Used OpenCV to take visual measurements of oscillator performance

Full Stack Developer, Philadelphia PA September 2015 to September 2017 (Part time)

• Built proof of concept end to end data visualization using MongoDB, Nodejs, and Typescript.
• Developed interactive comment system including database schema, endpoints, and React frontend
• Designed testing fixtures for legacy code, bringing application test coverage to above 90%
• Participated in sprint planning and agile development task

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Drexel University
• Masters of Science in Computer Science, Drexel University

• A. Gentry, W. Mongan, B. Lee, O. Montgomery and K. Dandekar, "Activity Segmentation Using Wearable Sensors for DVT/PE Risk Detection," 2019 IEEE 43rd Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC), Milwaukee, WI, USA, 2019, pp. 477-483, doi: 10.1109/COMPSAC.2019.10252.
• Haag, Scott, Gentry,Austin. A Watershed Delineation Algorithm for 2D Flow Direction Grids. AWRA GIS X. Orlando Fl, April 22-25, 2018
• Gentry,Austin. Building an Application Programming Interface to Provide Nutrient Hotspot and Concentration Modelling. AWRA GIS X. Orlando Fl, April 22-25, 2018
• Haag, Scott, Gentry,Austin, and Shokoufandeh, Ali. “Creation of a Data Model to Retrieve Constrained Watershed Boundaries”. 9th International Environmental Modelling & Software Conference 2018. Submitted for publication March 2018.