Amazon (AWS)

Kevin's Summer 2025 internship: SDE Intern at Amazon Web Services in Bellevue, WA. The big-tech entry point in his career arc.

Engagement (compiled)

Outcomes (from resume)

• Built internal APIs to support inventory workflows; 37% response time improvement, streamlined feature deployment
• Refactored reconciliation pipeline; 25% test coverage improvement, reduced technical debt
• Implemented dashboard with Amazon-Q LLM integration, enabling PM collaboration and streamlining feature deployment

Source: Resume, Kevin B. Liu §Experience > Amazon Web Services

Kevin's iMessage Signal

From recent thread with brother (Apr 2026): "shall i begin thinking of amazon" - return-offer / FT consideration in motion. Source: STYLE, iMessage 2026-04-18

Open Questions for Kevin

• The actual texture of working at AWS as a Princeton CS intern - what was it really like vs. what you expected?
• What did Amazon teach you that Bloomberg didn't, and vice versa?
• How are you thinking about the FT return decision (per iMessage signal)?
• What's the part of Amazon culture you'd want to keep, and what would you leave?
• Comparing the Amazon experience to Dedalus founding-engineer life - what surprised you?
• Anyone from AWS who became a real connection?

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Timeline

• 2026-07-01 | Project graph refresh checked this page against Kevin's live GitHub inventory and PortfolioMon scrape. No direct repo/card match was promoted here, so the page remains a context or umbrella project page. Source: raw/github/kevin-repos-2026-07-01.json; raw/sites/kevinliu-biz-2026-07-01/portfolio-projects.json

• 2026-04-21 | Page created as part of institutions-batch-2026-04-21. Compiled from resume. Marked institution-page-needs-personal-angle. Source: User, 2026-04-21