I'm a Japanese software engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, developer-facing APIs, and full-stack features at Amazon. I've led cross-functional initiatives spanning backend services, API gateways, and UI integrations. I'm currently building a cross-platform mobile app independently.

Kento Nambara

I'm a Japanese software engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, developer-facing APIs, and full-stack features at Amazon. I've led cross-functional initiatives spanning backend services, API gateways, and UI integrations. I'm currently building a cross-platform mobile app independently.

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I’m a Japanese software engineer with 4 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, developer-facing APIs, and full-stack features at Amazon. I’ve led cross-functional initiatives spanning backend services, API gateways, and UI integrations. I’m currently building a cross-platform mobile app independently.

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Language

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Amazon
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2025
Led backend engineering for a policy and rules storage service supporting ad eligibility enforcement across multiple Amazon surfaces. Delivered AWS infrastructure (VPC, Lambda, SQS, DLQ), secure networking, CI/CD pipelines, and database connectivity. Designed and implemented 10+ scalable CRUD GraphQL/REST APIs with contract validation, schema versioning, and pagination; first team to self-service onboard to an organization-wide API gateway, passing architectural bar-raiser review.
Software Engineer at Amazon
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2025
Ordering Systems — Checkout Platform: Developed a reusable Java library to record and replay internal HTTP and RPC client traffic within a Tier-1 checkout service handling 440M+ daily persistence operations and 6.9M daily checkout transactions. Enabled deterministic regression testing by designing custom handler injection into the RPC client’s request processing chain. Drove launch of an offline shadow replay framework: provisioned 30 test environments across 4 global regions, resolved scaling blockers that expanded supported use cases from 1.2K to 124K+, increased API recording coverage from 1% to 100% in backend fleets, and eliminated 600K+ daily false log errors. Triaged Sev1 dependency regressions during peak sale events.
Software Engineer at Amazon
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2025
Amazon Business — Socially Responsible Purchasing: Led end-to-end full-stack feature launch of a domestic product preference policy for amazon.fr—designed backend datapath views, UI integration, and A/B experiment. Adopted by 48 businesses across 4 sectors during pilot; designed a generic, locale-agnostic implementation enabling reuse across other marketplaces. Managed migration of 17M+ customer records using AWS services with zero service disruption. Reduced integration test failure rate by 60% (33%→13%) by diagnosing concurrency issues and optimizing retry strategies. Recognized with top performance rating.
Software Engineer at Amazon
January 1, 2021 - January 1, 2025
Alexa AI — Enterprise & Multi-agent Routing: Built a full-stack utterance debugging tool (Angular + Java) that automated diagnosis of misrouted voice requests across 5 NLP services. Parsed complex routing output data, implemented conditional failure detection logic per service, and developed the UI for partner teams to self-service debug issues. Reduced debugging support tickets by 50% (~12→6/week), saving 3+ engineering hours weekly. Added batch processing (CSV upload for bulk testing) and direct ticket-filing integration. Tool remained in active use 3+ years post-launch and is referenced in the team wiki.

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science at Brown University
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2021

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet