Erik Cupsa
(111) 111-1111 # erikcupsa@gmail.com ï linkedin.com/in/erik-cupsa § github.com/erik-cupsa
Education
McGill University Sep 2021 - May 2026
Bachelor of Computer Engineering | Golden Key Honours Scholar GPA: 3.82
Work Experience
Amazon May 2025 – Aug 2025
Software Engineer Intern Toronto, ON
• Owned end-to-end development of a production-grade service using AWS CDK (TypeScript) and Java-based AWS
Lambda functions, automating manual campaign management and scaling to 6M+ emails/day
• Launched with AWS CloudWatch dashboards used daily by the Ring marketing team, cutting costs by $8K+
monthly and saving 80+ hours of manual work each week
• Integrated with live systems processing 40M+ events/day by connecting AWS SNS and SQS to internal services
and persisting artifacts in AWS S3, reducing campaign processing time by 23%
Autodesk Jan 2025 – Apr 2025
Backend Engineer Intern Montreal, QC
• Worked across backend and infra to deliver Java and Spring Boot microservices powering customer workflows for
50M+ users worldwide, from design through production rollout
• Implemented a Redis-backed caching layer with Caffeine, raising cache hit rate from 38% to 91%, cutting p95
latency from 410 ms to 170 ms, and reducing database load by 45% for $11K in monthly infrastructure savings
• Introduced resilience4j-based rate limiting via Spring filters with per-tenant and per-endpoint policies, reducing
peak 5xx errors by 40% and maintaining 99.98% availability during high-traffic events
TRC Companies, Inc. May 2024 – Sep 2024
Machine Learning Engineer Intern Montreal, QC
• Built a Python NLP pipeline with scikit-learn, spaCy, and NLTK, then productionized it as a Flask API with
Redis caching, cutting processing time from 5 to 3 minutes across 1,200+ requirements per month
• Engineered BERT-based dependency extraction for requirement lists, improving project planning efficiency by 37%
TRC Companies, Inc. May 2023 – Sep 2023
Backend Engineer Intern Remote
• Built 30+ AWS Lambda functions and 15+ Step Function workflows using REST API integrations to improve
reuse and reliability, reducing execution time by 65% and saving $1K per large scale deployment
• Built a Spring Boot app, containerized with Docker, and deployed on AWS EC2, serving 30+ stakeholders
Leadership Experience
Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Empor | App Jun 2024 - Present
• Led 100% of development, building a scalable React Native mobile marketplace from scratch with a Spring Boot
backend for 1,500+ McGill users, processing 1,000+ transactions and winning a $2,500 sustainability grant
SWErikCodes | Instagram | YouTube | TikTok Jun 2023 – Present
• Created educational coding content reaching 300,000+ followers and 13,700,000+ monthly impressions, with
general coding tutorials and deep dives into data structures, algorithms, and software design principles
Projects
On-Orbit Collision Predictor | Source Code Django | MATLAB | NextJS
• Built a full-stack satellite-collision prediction tool for the Canadian Space Agency, with 3D visualizations
MyHealthPal | Demo and Code TensorFlow | Spring Boot | ReactJS
• Built a full-stack virtual care app combining AI advice, sentiment-aware TTS therapy, and geolocated clinics
Technical Skills
Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, HTML5, CSS, C
Developer Tools: AWS, Postman, Git, Docker, Prisma, Supabase, Google Cloud Platform, Firebase, PowerBI, Azure, Jira
Libraries/Frameworks: Spring Boot, ReactJS, NextJS, React Native, Expo, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, VueJS, Flask
