Computer Science and Software Engineering Capstone Presentations
Fall Quarter
December 18, 2020
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Camron Staley "Software
Development Internship with Amazon" (Amazon) Faculty Advisor: Dr. Carol Zander |
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Abstract For my capstone I partook in a 12-week internship at
Amazon as a software development engineer intern. I was working individually
on a project titled "Seller Central Pricing Validation System". My
team is located in Austin, Texas and are responsible
for configuring Seller Central, Amazon's seller listing portal, for new
regional marketplaces, an example being Sweden, which we launched this
summer. The system my project validated is used to ensure competitive pricing
from 3rd party listings on Amazon by featuring competitive offers and hiding
non-competitive ones. This action is determined by comparing the listing
price to similar items sold by competitors in the given marketplace. If the
new listing is overpriced, compared to our competitors, then it will be placed
into the "see all buying options" category on Amazon's marketplace.
This system requires marketplace specific competitors, so there is a database
configured for each marketplace consisting of all the major competitors for
that region. My project was responsible for automatically validating this
system for new marketplaces, which was previously done over two weeks of
manually querying databases. Automation was accomplished by feeding new
listings into the upstream, marketplace specific, databases and then querying
the downstream database to ensure that the system was properly recognizing
and comparing the listings. I was responsible for drafting the design
document, presenting to our organization, writing documentation, answering
any questions, and creating the finished product. This was done with the help
of my mentor, a software development engineer 1, from my team who volunteered
to help with my transition into Amazon and answer any questions I had about
the project. |
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Updated December 15, 2020