Hi, I'm Gavin D'Hondt.
I'm a Jr. SDE at Amazon and Computer Science student at Oakland University
I've been programming for over seven years, and I am obsessed with learning. I'm currently focused on building full-stack web solutions, particularly using cloud technologies, but I'm always deep diving various branches of Computer Science.
Outside of programming, I love learning new things, listening to music, and playing video games!
This is what I'm currently up to:
Experience
April 2024 - Present (2 years)
Detroit, Michigan
Amazon
Junior Software Engineer
- Primary developer on a greenfield seller experience (now org-wide top priority): designed and built backend service and frontend end-to-end, launching pilot to 100+ sellers
- Built a 10k+ LOC diagnostic tool within first 90 days that cut Seller Support ticket contacts by 50%+; monitored via custom dashboards
- Built a novel internal AI agent on AWS Bedrock AgentCore with MCP to accelerate debugging and migrations; led cross-team knowledge transfer
- Designed and implemented high-concurrency pipeline processing 10k+ listings per workflow with thousands of bounded parallel API calls and production-grade observability
- Led cross-org tiger team initiative to migrate 12+ services across 3 EU AWS regions, architecting VPC, PrivateLink, and DNS/service-discovery networking
Projects
UniFit
Full-stack automated university meal planning platform
- Co-founded UniFit and led the product from zero to production, reaching 100 peak DAU in the first month
- Architected a cross-platform TypeScript system (Next.js web + Expo mobile + tRPC + Neon Postgres) with end-to-end type-safe APIs, auth, and analytics
- Built a constraint-based meal plan engine and automated multi-university menu data pipelines (scheduled Playwright parsing + scraping) with GenAI ranking and data enrichment
Personle!
Full-stack daily guessing game for characters from the Persona video game series
- Scaled from launch to 600 peak DAU with 99.9% uptime via automated CDK IaC pipelines on a self-hosted VPS
- Applied creative and accessible UI styling techniques to mimic the complex art style of Persona 5
Fouseion
Local-first AI-native tag based file management desktop app
- Designed and built a local-first desktop application using Tauri with semantic file search and automatic tagging
- Implemented AI-native workflows for intelligent file organization without cloud uploads or privacy compromises
- Utilized AI to generate tags for files based on their content, allowing for more accurate and efficient file organization
O.U. Bookmarket
Full-stack textbook resale marketplace for Oakland University students
- Led a team of 4 student developers to deliver and deploy a production application in 10 weeks
- Designated tasks using Agile methodologies and Kanban
- Organized weekly scrum meetings to ensure timely completion of features
- Created numerous reports and diagrams documenting the application's design, business requirements, and implementation