Senior Engineering Leader
Jonathan
Lewis Clark
12+ years building and scaling distributed systems, high-performing engineering organizations, and consumer AI products.
Trajectory
Career Elevation
Senior Manager, Alexa Daily Essentials
Amazon · Seattle, WA
- Led 61-person engineering organization (49 SDEs, 6 SDMs, 1 TPM, 4 interns) across 9 product charters
- Delivered 54.5% infrastructure cost reduction within 5 months
- Delivered SVP-level goal for AI-backed intelligent features (Calendar Insights)
- Led GenAI charter with science team mandate for AI/ML model deployment
- Org growth arc: 34 (join) → 68 (peak) → 61 (at departure)
Senior Manager / SDM III, AWS Step Functions
Amazon Web Services · Vancouver, BC
- Scaled engineering organization from 2 → 8 → 22 engineers
- Led escalation manager group of 16 EMs across Events & Workflows
- Promoted three times in four years (SDM II → SDM III → Senior Manager)
SDM II, AWS Step Functions
Amazon Web Services · Vancouver, BC
- Grew initial team from 2 to 8 within 5 months
- Led all engineering for AWS Step Functions
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon Web Services · Vancouver, BC
- Developed frontend interface for AWS Step Functions
- Designed backend features for security, scalability, and availability
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Medimap (Part-time, alongside Amazon) · Vancouver, BC · Remote
- Co-founded Medimap and led technology for a platform to search and view walk-in clinic wait times across Canada
- Reached 72% Canadian market share and raised seed funding at a $1.5M valuation
- Built the company part-time while working full-time at Amazon
Software Development Engineer
Amazon.com · Vancouver, BC
- Fire Phone, RDS Aurora, Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
- Deep work in distributed systems: ACID transactions on DynamoDB, write-ahead logging, consistent hashing
Entrepreneurship
Ventures
BudgiePlanner
ActiveFounder & CEO
2024 – Present
AI-powered budgeting and financial planning product built on Claude/Anthropic models using Claude Code.
VisitGretchen
CompletedCo-Founder
2023 – 2024
Legal AI assistant product for email. Co-founder, operated in parallel with Amazon role.
Medimap Systems
72% Market ShareCo-Founder & CTO
2015 – 2017
Healthcare marketplace connecting patients to walk-in clinics. Achieved 72% market share across Canada. Raised seed funding at a $1.5M valuation. Built while working full-time at Amazon.
Expertise
Technical Skills
Core Strengths
Languages & Frameworks
Infrastructure
AI & Emerging Tech
Scale
Leadership
“The thread that runs through my career is building and scaling — taking something from zero or near-zero and growing it into a high-performing system and team.”
In 2022, I moved from AWS to Alexa — from B2B to B2C, from infrastructure to product, into AI and science. I started with two teams and grew to six through the Alexa+ complete rebuild. Before leaving, I educated our entire 220-person organization on how to leverage AI agents and new tooling.
Inventions
Patents
US 12,726,362 B1
Delegated device authentication between trusted devices
Co-inventor · Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Filed Dec 2024 · Granted Sep 2026
Beyond Work
Interests
Summits Reached
Canoeing
Bowron Lake Circuit, Spatsizi & Upper Stikine Rivers
Running
Youngest participant in the 2004 Vancouver Marathon at age 12
Sports
Golf, Rugby (6 years), Soccer (2 years)
Travel
Exploring new places and cultures around the world
Family
Proud dad to a 4-year-old daughter
Fitness & Biking
Regular gym workouts and cycling
Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
University of British Columbia
2014