Any further translation on what VP and "Distinguished Engineer" means here? It sounds like both of them are honorary and doesn't really mean much, but then "Distinguished" makes it seem they received some sort of Nobal price of computing as well.
And if neither of them really mean anything, then this guy is really "just" a developer right?
The further/higher you get you usually do less "programming" and more design/architectural, plus line management.
Probably yeah, he went to a coding boodcamp and was hired after that.
This is a fairly fluffy piece of writing. His internal writings were much deeper.
Comp is $950K++++ per year range.
It’s hard to get familiar with engineers at Amazon. They have spokes persons who release things written by others and their external contribution process is difficult at best.
It isn’t a surprise people think he is a nobody. I still remember him after five years.