Cannon Farr
Studied at Brigham Young University
Works at Leland
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Work Experience
Software Engineer
Leland
January 2025 - Present
Interviewer
I'm honored to be a member of the team that builds the platform that you are using right now. Leland is such a great platform
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon
June 2024 - December 2024
As a Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon, I quickly integrated with the complex and sophisticated nature of Amazon's software development lifecycle.On the Alexa Certification Team, I was responsible for integrating AI into the process for 3rd party products to work seamlessly with the Alexa platform. Key Achievements: - Contributed to Alexa certification automation using Java. - Interacted with LLMs (specifically Antrhopic Claude) to perform validation on Alexa responses.
Software Engineer
Nerd United
June 2022 - June 2024
At Nerd United, I was responsible for contributing code for an API web application in .NET core.Our application was heavily specialized in Web3 and I integrated many blockchain technologies into the app. Key Achievements: - Became a subject matter expert in NFTs and helped lead efforts in building an NFT marketplace feature of our application - Built and improved CI/CD pipelines and optimized infrastructure using Github Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes. ASP.NET, Blockchain and +3 skills
Software Developer
Brigham Young University
October 2021 - June 2022
As a software developer at Brigham Young University, I worked in the Record Linking Lab in the economics department.This labs mission was to optimize and automate family history work by using data processing and computer vision. Accomplishments: - Built an improved version of a "map app" that allowed users to search and view their family history records in locations across the globe to ease linking of these records to FamilySearch. - Utilized FamilySearch APIs to run automation scripts that updated new information on family history records. JavaScript and Containerization
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Masters, Business Administration
2024 - 2028
I learned how to be successful
Brigham Young University
Computer Science
2021 - 2024
Cannon was also personally admitted to
The Wharton School (UPenn)
Stanford Graduate School of Business