Billy Bunn

Summary

Senior software engineer with 7+ years building and operating regulated, high-traffic platforms on AWS. Currently at Nike, running the global privacy consent platform.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer II · Nike · September 2022 to present · Beaverton, Oregon (remote)

• Operate and evolve a global privacy consent platform on AWS and own its infrastructure end to end: infrastructure as code, multi-region deployment, performance optimization, and monitoring.
• Led the technical execution of a GDPR retention migration (AWS Glue, PySpark, DynamoDB), from the discovery spike through the deployment, testing, and validation plans, delivered before a fixed legal deadline.
• Owned the documented rollout plan and security hardening for the team's zero-downtime API Gateway to ALB migration.
• Led a cross-repository security remediation and strengthened release checks with static analysis, dependency, secret, and infrastructure-as-code scanning.
• Built the automated production health check my on-call rotation runs on; teammates adopted it for shift handoffs.
• Built and own the platform's internal AI assistant, in production.
• Early adopter and advocate for AI-assisted development (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, OpenSpec); built the Cursor skills, rules, and AGENTS.md knowledge base the whole team adopted, and helped train groups of colleagues on the tools.
• Acted as the team's interim lead engineer many times and run its sprint ceremonies.

Software Developer · Hestan Smart Cooking · October 2019 to September 2022 · Seattle, Washington

The company's only web-focused developer at a connected-cooking startup, working across web, backend services, data, and infrastructure.

• Built the consumer web properties with React, GatsbyJS, Contentful, and AWS CloudFront.
• Took sole ownership of the Shopify storefront and rebuilt it through the direct-to-consumer relaunch, with multi-currency selling, translation, geo-based market redirection, and a CI/CD pipeline.
• Launched and operated AWS-backed services and internal tools for the iOS and Android apps and recipe-development workflows using Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFront, and CloudWatch.
• Co-built core platform systems: the recipe-authoring tool, the localization service, and the CloudFormation stacks behind the platform's AWS infrastructure.

Private Tutor and Teaching Assistant, Full-Stack JavaScript · Code Fellows · June 2019 to June 2022 · Seattle, Washington

• Tutored students in programming fundamentals and JavaScript across remote and in-person formats.
• Supported advanced full-stack JavaScript instruction by grading assignments, debugging code, updating curriculum, and reviewing projects built with React, Node.js, MongoDB, and GraphQL.

Assurance Associate · RSM US LLP · November 2017 to December 2018 · Seattle, Washington

• Led risk-based audit testing of revenue, inventory, receivables, and debt controls, tracing figures to evidence, for middle-market clients across software, industrial, real estate, and retail.

Skills

• Languages and runtimes: TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, PySpark, SQL (PostgreSQL), GraphQL, Rust (personal projects)
• AWS: Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, ALB, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, CloudFormation/SAM, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Glue, Athena, CloudWatch, WAF, IAM, VPC, KMS, ACM, Cognito, RDS
• Platform: React, Next.js, AppSync/Apollo, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Jest, Playwright, Splunk, PagerDuty
• Practice: serverless and event-driven architecture, multi-region and multi-partition deployments, platform migrations, canary and weighted traffic routing, observability, privacy and compliance engineering (GDPR, CPRA), security scanning (SAST, SCA, secrets, IaC), production operations, AI-assisted and spec-driven development (GitHub Copilot, Cursor, OpenSpec, Claude Code)

Education

• B.A., Accounting, University of Washington Bothell, School of Business, 2017. Beta Alpha Psi honors society.
• Certificate, Advanced Software Development in Full-Stack JavaScript, Code Fellows, 2019.