Michael Yang

Senior Software Engineer — AI Tools and Security

• Designed and built a highly available Kubernetes architecture for an MCP Gateway that securely connects AI agents to enterprise data and tools in customer cloud environments.
• Partnered with enterprise customers to turn feature and security requirements into product capabilities.

Software Engineer 2 — Core Compute Infrastructure

• Optimized compute costs for Kubernetes services to save up to $300,000 annually.

Software Development Engineer II — Amazon Bedrock Guardrails

• Designed and implemented the ApplyGuardrail API, supporting 500+ requests/second and 1,000+ daily users.
• Architected and executed a zero-downtime migration that split the primary data-plane service, improving operational reliability and reducing API faults by 100+ per week.
• Partnered with product teams to deliver guardrails capabilities including content moderation, PII policies, and image modality support.
• Led projects end-to-end, from requirements gathering and system design through implementation, deployment, and maintenance, while mentoring multiple junior engineers.
• Built an internal fault-analysis tool that streamlined operational workflows and reduced weekly on-call load by 10%.

Software Development Engineer I — Amazon Lex

• Designed an EC2 auto-scaling system using AWS Step Functions to dynamically optimize compute capacity based on customer traffic.
• Optimized the EC2 fleet hosting ASR models by co-locating multiple models per host, reducing host count by 60% and saving approximately $10M per month.
• Developed a Docker-based benchmarking framework that standardized model accuracy evaluation across engineering and applied science teams.
• Built an audio annotation workflow to analyze customer traffic and generate model accuracy metrics.
• Produced an accuracy analysis reviewed by senior leadership, helping drive adoption of a new model architecture.

Software Development Engineer Intern — Amazon Lex

• Built a chat integration for Amazon Lex in Java serving thousands of users per month.

Software Development Engineer Intern — Amazon Lex

• Developed an audio annotation Java service and built its supporting UI using TypeScript and React.