Hello, my name is

Kurt

.
I'm currently a Software Engineer at Amazon.

Currently working in a Backend focused team at Amazon, my professional experience is mostly from backend development.

However, I'm also very interested in frontend development and often work on the frontend aspect in personal/group projects.

Timeline
  1. Software Development Engineer @ Amazon

    Part of backend team owning Amazon Kids+ subscription core technologies, serving over 10 million customers around the world

  2. Graduated from University of Waterloo

    Graduated with a BCS in Computer Science at University of Waterloo

  3. First experience with coding

    My first experience with coding with C/C++ - eventually also participated in Canadian Computing Contest (CCC) Junior Division in 2011, placing Top 10 country-wide

  4. Immigrated to Canada

    Immigrated over to Canada with my family in 2007

  5. Born in South Korea

    I was born in South Korea in 1995, and my interest in computers date all the way before Y2K in 2000 as I was fascinated by computers as early as age 3-4 when my dad first brought home a Macintosh