About Me
Corey Noble
Front-End Engineer II (L5) - Amazon
The technologies I use most often:
React
TypeScript
JavaScript
Jest
SCSS / SASS
CSS
HTML 5
Git
Node
VS Code
Photoshop
Chrome
Lighthouse
Firefox
Safari
Edge
My Story
As a kid I was fascinated with the idea of creating video games. This led me to enrolling in a two year Multi-Media diploma program at Fanshawe College, as it was a prerequisite for the 3D Animation program I was interested in. In Multi-Media I was introduced to website development. I quickly fell in love with the complex and creative role that software engineering provides. To me, graduating from this course was the beginning of my career as a Software Engineer.
I proceeded to enrol in 3D Animation. It was a program with a shorter than average timespan than a typical course within this field of study. I was taught by a veteran in the industry. He pushed us to the very edge of our potential in a very condensed timeline. Many people that work with me are amazed at the amount of dedication, concentration and the general attitude I have towards my profession. I consider the 3D program to be part of the reason why.
Post-graduation I spent the summer as a 3D Artist and Unity developer for Slightly Social, Inc.. During this time I realised that software engineering was my preferred career path.
In-order to break into the software engineering industry, Next I created a portfolio of websites I developed for local businesses.
Due to my portfolio, I was able to land a job at Thrillworks Inc., one of Canada's most reputable digital agencies, as a Web Production Specialist. After 3 years I was promoted to Web Developer which was a position I held for an additional 2 years. At Thrillworks I developed digital media campaigns at a global scale.
My next role was at Evertz Microsystems Ltd., A global leader in broadcast solutions, where I held a position of Web Application Developer for 2 years. At Evertz I developed and maintained software that supported the video production teams behind live video broadcasts.
I currently work for Amazon.com Inc., within the Finance Automation organization, where I hold the position of Front-End Engineer II (L5) on the Accounts Receivable team.
Throughout my career so far I have had the great privilege to work with very talented groups of people, on amazing and challenging projects that I am very proud to have had a part in creating. I feel blessed to have found my passion so early in life. I love that working in this industry means I get to continually learn, grow and take on a new challenge every day.
Job Experience
Front-End Engineer II (L5)
May 2024 - Present
Amazon.com, Inc. Finance Automation, Accounts Receivable
Individual contributor to Amazon's collection workbench, supporting a total Accounts Receivable of $3,150MM for 360,264 customer accounts across 95 channels in 29 markets. This application supports 1,331 unique monthly active users and 89,116 visits per day.
- Global search features. Enabled advanced search capabilities on individual attributes of an account. Enabled bulk selection of search results to further enable adding bulk notes, exporting to excel and bulk account assignment.
- Merged Invoice and Credit feature. Added logic to enable the insertion of negative values on bulk actions, such as creating a promise to pay, creating a dispute or logging an activity.
- Aging summary feature. Added a table when viewing an account which displays the aging information for each market and currency.
- Leading the Resiliency and Availability effort. Created an aggregate alarm on our services and enabled auto-rollback on our pipelines if the alarm was triggered after a deployment. Ensured our S3 buckets had automated backups enabled.
- Operational Excellence. In an on-call rotation, I maintained operational excellence by monitoring service dashboards, triaging high-severity tickets, debugging customer issues, performing deployments, and moderating reviews for the Finance Automation organization.
- Design Library Contributor. Added bespoke components to the Finance Automation design library, enabling other teams to use our design patterns.
- Technical interviewer. Conducted dozens of interviews for L5, L4 and internship candidates. Participated in debrief sessions to make inclined or not inclined decisions.
- Onboarding Buddy / Mentor. Was the onboarding buddy for 3 Amazonians and was a regular point of contact for mentoring new hires.
7 months | November 2023 - May 2024
Amazon.com, Inc. Finance Automation, Global Real-Estate and Facilities
- Workplace platform. Built a web and mobile application that provides Amazon employees with a centralized platform for accessing essential building information, resources, and workplace services.
Web Development Engineer II (L5)
2 years | October 2021 - November 2023
Amazon.com, Inc. Finance Automation, Global Real-Estate and Facilities
- Real-estate portfolio optimization application. Automated the process of collecting and combining data using spreadsheet-based mechanisms for portfolio planning. This achieved a 50% reduction in hours required to sample data, and a reduction in Amazon's rentable square feet of $250M in 2023.
- Floorplan visualization component. Enabled Amazon employees to visualize the building layout of their assigned building and floor. Visualized team desk groupings. Enabled desk selection and visualization of desk metadata, desk assignee, and their employment chain. Enabled a search feature to render the floor and desk location of other Amazon employees.
- Workplace headcount reservation feature. During the COVID pandemic, ensured the amount of people coming to the office met the local guidelines for reduced building capacities.
- Maintained and modernized Amazon's Orbit. This serves as the master data management application for Global Real Estate and Facilities managed corporate building data.
Web Application Developer
1 year, 11 months | December 2019 - October 2021
Evertz Microsystems Ltd.
Developed and maintained software that supports live video broadcasts.
Web Developer
2 years, 4 months | August 2017 - December 2019
Thrillworks Inc.
Developed large-scale media campaigns and custom components within a variety of Content Management Systems.
Web Production Specialist
3 years, 3 months | May 2014 - July 2017
Thrillworks Inc.
Created and managed large-scale media campaigns and websites within a variety of Content Management Systems.
Web Developer and Graphic Artist
9 months | September 2013 - May 2014
Right Choice Websites
Developed responsive websites for local businesses.
3D Artist and Unity Developer
4 months | May 2013 - August 2013
Slightly Social
Created 3D scenes, objects, characters and animations. Implemented art assets within the Unity game engine.
Education
3D Animation and Character Design
2012 - 2013 | Certificate
Developed skills in game development, 3D graphics, animation and character design.
Multi-Media Design and Production
2010 - 2012 | Diploma
Developed a breadth of media skills, including:
Web development, programming, graphic design, print media, video production and visual effects.