Portrait of Logan Dracos
Software Developer Engineer at Amazon

Logan Dracos

Full-Stack Software Engineer

Washginton, D.C.

Hello! I'm Logan, and I like to create full-stack projects with AWS services, React, and Java. I specialize in building data-driven tools for financial systems, although I like to play around with all aspects of development. I'm excited to start in Amazon's FinTech Organization this September.

01 / Experience

My relevant
work experience.

May — August 2025

Software Developer Engineer Intern

Amazon, Fintech Organization · Arlington, VA

Built secure, scalable case-processing tools for Amazon FinTech investigators.

  • Built an AWS CDK bulk-upload workflow for up to 10,000 cases, connecting API Gateway, Lambda, S3, and Glue for 30+ investigators.
  • Automated CSV validation with Glue, Step Functions, Spark, DynamoDB, and encrypted cross-account access for secure, zero-error multi-case processing.
  • Created Amazon Connect backfill tooling with SQS and Lambda, maintaining 80%+ unit-test coverage.
AWS CDKAPI GatewayLambdaS3GlueStep FunctionsDynamoDBSQSReact

June — August 2024

Full-Stack Software Developer Intern

VOOM Insurance · Tel Aviv, Israel

Improved financial reporting and legal-document workflows for a digital-insurance platform.

  • Improved PostgreSQL functions and AWS Lambda integrations, raising reporting accuracy by 50% and performance by 20%.
  • Automated legal-document PDFs, saving the legal team 2+ hours each week.
  • Built C#/ASP.NET APIs and clearer React dashboard navigation.
PostgreSQLAWS LambdaC#ASP.NETReactCSHTMLPython

02 / Education

20262022

August 2022 - May 2026

B.S. in Computer Science

Duke University · Durham, NC

Minor in Finance.

  • GPA: 3.91
  • HackDuke Code for Good Hackathon
  • Tamid Group
  • Duke Independent Film Festival Editorial
  • Relevant Coursework: Structures and Algorithms, Advanced Software Design and Implementation, Practical Financial Markets
20222018

September 2018 - June 2022

High School Diploma

Horace Mann School · Bronx, NY

  • Editor-in-Chief of current events magazine
  • Captain of Soccer, Track, and Baseball teams
  • Awarded Outstanding Athlete & Sportsman Award

03 / Selected work

Personal Projects

Developer · March — May 2025

2D Game Player & Authoring

A modular game engine and authoring platform for creating, playing, and sharing 2D levels.

  • Engineered a modular 2D game engine and builder platform with an Entity-Component-System architecture and recursive JSON parsing for reusable components.
  • Abstracted database logic into a reusable service layer, making game features such as user levels, scores, and social interactions easier to extend.
JavaJavaFXJUnitFirebaseFirestoreJackson
GitHub
Developer · January — March 2025

Cell Society

A configurable cellular-automata simulation platform for diverse grid-based experiments.

  • Developed a Java-based cellular automata platform using OpenJFX and MVC architecture, enabling users to configure and run simulations through XML input files with robust error handling.
  • Collaborated in a team of three to design, implement, and test modular simulation features using design patterns, reflection, and SOLID principles; delivered 70%+ unit-test coverage.
JavaJavaFXJUnit
GitHub
Co-Developer · October - December 2024

Amora

A matchmaking web application that helps users find dinner dates through preference-based matching.

  • Built a full-stack Flask web app with user authentication, editable profiles, and a preference-based matching and date-proposal system.
  • Implemented dynamic features like a 'Surprise Me' matcher, live compliment sending via the Fetch API, and cuisine-based date proposals with table-availability handling.
PythonFlaskFlask-SQLAlchemyMySQLJinja2BootstrapJavaScript
GitHub
Co-Founder, Head Frontend Developer · September 2023 — September 2024

Pickup Comps

A basketball player-comparison platform that matches user gameplay profiles to NBA players.

  • Architected a data-driven full-stack React application that analyzes user gameplay profiles against NBA statistics to generate personalized player matches using statistical analysis.
  • Built the frontend with React Router and Sass, plus Pandas data processing to aggregate NBA API data.
ReactJavaScriptPythonPandasSassMUI
GitHub
Developer · September 2023

Bearish

A mobile app built at HackDuke that makes reading business and tech news more engaging.

  • Built a React Native mobile app in 24 hours with a team of four, integrating OpenAI, NewsAPI, and Extractor API to summarize and surface business/tech news.
  • Collaborated across a four-person team under hackathon time constraints to ship a functional cross-platform app from concept to demo.
React NativeJavaScriptOpenAI APINewsAPI
GitHub
Sole Developer · January 2025

Breakout

A JavaFX implementation of the classic Breakout arcade game with multiple levels and power-ups.

  • Built a multi-level Breakout game in Java and JavaFX, including paddle/ball physics, brick collision, scorekeeping, and a lives system.
  • Designed a randomized power-up system (paddle resizing, ball speed, etc.) spawning from bricks, plus cheat-key level navigation and restart functionality.
JavaJavaFX
GitHub

04 / About me

A little more
about me.

Logan canoeing on a lake

I'm originally from New York and have been building things since high school, starting off with basic HTML and CSS projects and growing from there into a full stack of technologies. These days, I focus on cloud infrastructure and data-driven apps, designing scalable systems on AWS and building the databases and React frontends that bring them to life. I especailly enjoy projects that combine tech and finance that real people can use.

I recently graduated in Spring 2026 from Duke with a major in Computer Science and a minor in finance. I'll be moving to D.C. in early September. While I'll miss the North Carolina weather, I'm excited to explore a new city and new lifestyle working full time at Amazon's Arlington office.

Outside of work

Whitewater Canoeing · NBA (Boston Celtics) · Movies/Filmmaking · Card Games

Skills & tools.

Five bubbles represent my comfort level with each technology.

Languages

Java
JavaScript/Typescript
SQL
Python
C#

Frameworks

React
AWS CDK
Next.js
ASP.NET

Tools & platforms

AWS
Git
PostgreSQL
Firebase