John Tompkins
Software Engineer — New York, NY

About Me

I'm a software engineer with nearly a decade of experience across cloud infrastructure, fintech, and streaming platforms. I'm currently at Amazon working on AWS account management systems.

Outside of work, you'll find me at trivia nights or watching Kentucky basketball.

Experience

Amazon 2025 – Present
Software Engineer — AWS Account Management

Building systems that power AWS account management at scale.

Domain Money 2023 – 2025
Software Engineer — Financial Planning Platform

Built financial planning software for advisors and a client-facing portal for viewing plans, uploading documents, and an automated document extraction workflow.

Amazon 2018 – 2023
Software Engineer — CloudFormation, Buy with Prime, Prime Video

Worked across CloudFormation (core service, custom resource types, the CloudFormation CLI, and CloudFormation Guard), Buy with Prime, and Prime Video. On the playback start team, contributing to the launch of Thursday Night Football and readiness & resilience engineering to handle the significant TPS demands of live streaming.

What I Work With

Education

University of Kentucky 2014 – 2018
Summa Cum Laude