Career Choice

During my first year at Amazon, I worked on an internal product that allowed employees to pursue their career goals by applying for scholarships at academic institutions of their choice. For eligible employees, Amazon would pay up to 95% of tuition and fees (up to a yearly maximum) towards a certificate or diploma in qualified fields of study, leading to in-demand jobs.

Amazon announced that over 300,000 employees worldwide have participated in the program.

The application I developed is built on Salesforce using HTML5, JavaScript, and Sass. Working with the proprietary Apex programming language and Visualforce framework, I built dynamic experiences for every unique user from 14 countries and in 9 languages. Due to the global nature of the product, I learned the value of localization and accessibility at scale.

Key Contributions

• Refactored the front-end and API layer of the "Apply for Tuition" process to meet new business requirements and deliver an updated user experience. Launched globally in December 2020.

• Built a Python tool using the Salesforce Metadata API to automate language translations, replacing a manual process of copying content from Excel spreadsheets into Salesforce. The tool converted Excel content into deployable XML files, dramatically reducing the time needed to support 9 languages.

• Solved a file size limitation by implementing a JavaScript chunking technique to recursively split large uploads into smaller pieces before sending them to the server, improving reliability for PDF, PNG, and JPG uploads.