Amelia Young

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Senior Backend Engineer, Arbor Bio - rate limiting · OpenAPI · Redis

Arbor Bio
Melbourne, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
3+ years experience
Vietnam National University
English
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Overview

Senior Backend Engineer at Arbor Bio, focused on API platforms. Reduced cloud spend on public API by 31% in two quarters. Most at home with rate limiting and OpenAPI. I speak at conferences a couple of times a year.

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  • Second opinions on OpenAPI decisions
  • Working sessions on Python
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Skills
PythonOpenAPIrate limitingRedis

Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Arbor Bio · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Brought on-call pages for public API down from 30 a week to 1.
    • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 80 million requests a day.
    • Moved 88% of public API traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
    Standard Chartered · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Melbourne, Australia
    • Wrote the OpenAPI service that now handles 78 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Vietnam National University
    BSc, Computer Science
    2018 - 2022

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