Drew Jex

Software Engineer

Hello, I'm Drew! I'm a Senior Front End Engineer at AWS.

About
Experience
About Me

I'm a Senior Front-End Engineer at AWS with deep experience designing and leading large-scale, customer-focused applications. I have a proven record driving front-end architecture, UX strategy, and cross-team initiatives impacting over 1 million customers. Expertise in React, TypeScript, and cloud-native architectures with a passion for building performant, maintainable systems that scale. I also have experience mentoring engineers and contributing to team growth.

I own entire web applications in AWS Cost Management space, including the assets, the CI/CD configurations, and the underlying infrastructure used to scale these applications to millions of users.

I have experience mentoring other engineers and helping entire teams grow together.

In my spare time, I'm usually playing tennis, running, or writing a new piano concerto.

Experience
2019 - PRESENT

Amazon Web Services

Led redesign and front-end modernization of the AWS Budgets console (serving 1M+ customers) and delivered critical features and performance improvements for the AWS ECS console.

Drove technical vision for the Budgets console redesign, deprecating legacy systems and migrating to a scalable, serverless architecture leveraging AWS CDK and modern tooling.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • AWS
  • Vite
2018 - 2019

Access Development

Architected and led adoption of a reusable React component library that standardized UX and accelerated feature delivery for a flagship product serving 300k+ users.

  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Redux
2017 - 2018

SkyWest Airlines

Optimized critical JavaScript iPad application used by airline mechanics, reducing load times by 30% and enhancing frontline operational efficiency.

Trained employees on MVVM architecture and component reusability, improving maintainability and delivery velocity.

  • JavaScript
  • C#