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I sit with the client, find the step a person is doing by hand, and build whatever it takes to delete it, product or systems.", "location": { "city": "Austin", "region": "TX", "countryCode": "US" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "GitHub", "username": "Amsozzer1", "url": "https://github.com/Amsozzer1" }, { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "amsozzer1", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/amsozzer1" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "FYCLabs", "location": "Remote", "position": "Full Stack Engineer (Engineer II)", "summary": "Frontend, backend, CI/CD.", "startDate": "2025-05", "highlights": [ "Work directly with client founders, C-suite, and end users to scope requirements and surface pain points, then translate them into shipped features", "Build and ship full-stack applications for early-stage startups end-to-end, taking product concepts to production with Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL with Prisma, and GCP infrastructure", "Build cross-platform mobile apps in React Native from Figma designs, owning the full API layer and database modeling", "Engineer CRM integrations against client backends (GoHighLevel, Zoho, HubSpot) via REST APIs and webhooks, replacing manual data entry for client operations teams", "Build automated CI/CD pipelines on GCP with test gates, taking releases from manual to push-button across multiple concurrent client projects", "Optimize backend and database performance to scale from 700 to 5000 active users, improving query efficiency and horizontal scalability across distributed GCP infrastructure" ] }, { "name": "Holiday Channel", "location": "Colorado Springs, CO", "position": "Full Stack & iOS Developer", "startDate": "2025-01", "endDate": "2025-05", "highlights": [ "Built and shipped an e-commerce platform end to end, from checkout flow through order fulfillment", "Shipped the customer-facing mobile app in React Native for iOS, from Figma designs through App Store release", "Designed the service architecture to absorb holiday-season traffic peaks without degrading checkout", "Integrated Google Ads and built responsive interfaces from Figma designs using Shadcn and Framer Motion" ] }, { "name": "Luminii LLC", "location": "Niles, IL", "position": "Data Analyst and Software Intern", "startDate": "2024-05", "endDate": "2024-08", "highlights": [ "Built an ML-driven pricing system on real-time supplier data to adjust component costs, replacing a manual re-calibration process", "Reindexed a 15,000+ record database and added automated data validation, cutting query times across the pricing pipeline" ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign", "url": "https://illinois.edu", "area": "Computer Science", "studyType": "Bachelor of Science", "endDate": "2025-05" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Languages", "keywords": [ "Python", "C/C++ (C++17)", "JavaScript/TypeScript", "Java" ] }, { "name": "Frameworks", "keywords": [ "React", "Next.js", "Node.js", "Express", "React Native", "FastAPI", "TailwindCSS" ] }, { "name": "Systems", "keywords": [ "POSIX sockets", "MQTT", "multithreading", "CMake", "embedded (ESP32)", "Linux" ] }, { "name": "Databases & Cloud", "keywords": [ "PostgreSQL", "Prisma", "MongoDB", "Redis", "GCP", "Firebase", "Docker" ] }, { "name": "Practices", "keywords": [ "REST APIs", "Webhooks & Integrations", "CI/CD", "System Design", "Testing (GoogleTest, Jest, Cypress)" ] } ], "projects": [ { "name": "AMS-X", "description": "Open Modular Filament System for Bambu Lab Printers", "url": "https://github.com/Amsozzer1/AMS", "highlights": [ "Bambu Lab printers cap multi-material printing at 4 spools, forcing a manual swap on every material change; AMS-X removes the cap by running the printer in external-spool mode and automating the swap over MQTT (Python, FastAPI, ESP32) — protocol is undocumented, so the command set and report fields were reverse-engineered against a live printer", "Server owns the job: parses the sliced 3MF into a material-swap plan, pushes it over LAN FTPS, starts the print over MQTT, and validates every live pause event against the plan before anything moves", "Swap state machine (retract → select → feed → sense → resume) drives the printer's own change routine rather than authoring hotend gcode; the spool module is an interface with a human implementation today and a stepper (TMC2209 over ESP32) next" ], "keywords": [ "Python", "FastAPI", "MQTT", "ESP32", "3MF" ] }, { "name": "PlusWeb", "description": "Express-style HTTP Framework in C++", "url": "https://github.com/Amsozzer1/PlusWeb", "highlights": [ "Built an Express-style C++17 HTTP framework (app.GET, app.use) directly on POSIX sockets; one acceptor thread feeding a bounded thread pool with HTTP keep-alive. MIT-licensed and installable via CMake", "Designed a segment-trie router keyed by METHOD:/path with parameterized routes (/users/new beats /users/:id), plus mountable sub-routers", "Implemented a composable middleware chain with next() continuations, path-scoped middleware, and relative-path rewriting for nested routers", "Unit and integration tested (GoogleTest/CTest), the integration suite booting a live server and driving it over loopback; CI covers Linux and macOS, verifies the install target, and re-runs the suite under AddressSanitizer and UBSan with leak detection" ], "keywords": [ "C++17", "POSIX sockets", "CMake", "GoogleTest" ] } ], "publications": [ { "name": "Work in Progress: The Development of a Research-Based Application for Effective Mentor-Mentee Matching", "publisher": "American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)", "releaseDate": "2024-06", "url": "https://peer.asee.org/board-177-work-in-progress-the-development-of-a-research-based-application-for-effective-mentor-mentee-matching.pdf", "summary": "Contributed to the mentor-mentee matching research; credited in the acknowledgements of the ASEE work-in-progress paper." }, { "name": "The Development of a Research-Based Application for Effective Mentor-Mentee Matching", "publisher": "John S. Albazi Student Research Symposium, Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU)", "releaseDate": "2023-04-28", "url": "https://neiudc.neiu.edu/srcas/2023/s06/4/", "summary": "Presented the mentor-matching research at the 2023 John S. Albazi Student Research Symposium." }, { "name": "The Development of a Research-Based App for Effective Mentor-Mentee Matching", "publisher": "Wright College Student Research and Creative Scholarship Colloquium", "releaseDate": "2022-12-01", "url": "https://www.ccc.edu/wp-content/uploads/wright_departments_Documents_Honors-at-Wright_Student-Colloquium-Program-Fall-2022.pdf", "summary": "Presented the mentor-matching app research at Wright College's Fall 2022 Student Research Colloquium." } ], "meta": { "canonical": "https://amsozzer.com/resume.json" } }