Kartik S.

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India2 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Mentored over 5000 students in Data Structures and Algorithms.
Developed a latency-sensitive shopping assistant at Amazon.
Top 20 contributor at RedHat during Google Summer of Code.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer in the E-commerce and EdTech industries.

Contact

Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)JavaCloud DevelopmentInfrastructure As Code (iac)Apache AirflowAmazon DynamodbAws GlueObject-oriented Programming (oop)

Other Skills

AWS CloudFormationAWS Identity and Access Management (AWS IAM)AWS LambdaAWS Step FunctionsAlgorithm AnalysisAlgorithm DesignAlgorithm DevelopmentAlgorithmsAmazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon S3Apache SparkC++Cloud InfrastructureData StructuresDistributed Systems

About

Software engineer, mentor, open source enthusiast and content creator are the 4 things that define me. ✅ 👨‍💻 I am working at Amazon as a software engineer, building for millions of customers and in the process strengthening my engineering skills such as System Design and Architecture, Programming and Serverless. 👨‍💻 I have mentored more than 5000 students for Data Structures and algorithms, Java and open source. 👨‍💻 Open source is something from which I started my journey, was a Google Code- In mentor, accepted at Google Summer of code as well and worked with RedHat becoming among top 20 contributors. 👨‍💻 I really like to create content on engineering, life experiences and sports on linkedin. If you like my content or need any advice then we can connect. Thanks for visiting my profile!

Experience

Amazon

System Development Engineer 2

Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Designed and developed a latency-sensitive shopping assistant for the Amazon Search and Detail pages, meeting strict latency targets of 155ms and 200ms respectively.
Enabled customers to browse high-quality ASINs by mapping product types to customer needs, leading to a $17MM revenue increase.
Built a plug-and-play generic CI/CD pipeline framework, reducing development efforts from 1 month to 1.5 SDE weeks.
Automated EC2 instance health checks and alerting via email, cutting service downtime and lowering operational load by 20% per month.
Mentored an intern to develop a pipeline risk mitigation tool that eliminated 50+ tickets/month, significantly improving operational excellence.
Created Generic Task Orchestrator templates using Apache Airflow, reducing onboarding effort from 45 days to 15 days across 30+ onboardings, saving 66% in SDE time.
Maintained and enhanced Scala-based microservices, including transportation logic for Amazon businesses and associated unit testing.
Developed a custom DynamoDB-based locking mechanism to ensure mutual exclusivity in orchestration workflows.
Automated workflow integration of Cradle jobs (Amazon’s internal batch tool) with AWS Glue, saving $5000/month, reducing integration time from 1 week to 1 day, and cutting operational overhead by 80%.
Added metrics and alarms for critical steps in the EMR-based service and created a CDK package for easier deployment, resolving COE action items.
Amazon DevCon 2025 – Built and presented an Engineering Excellence Solution in Seattle, WA(Out of Top 130 selected)

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR)Amazon Web Services (AWS)JavaCloud InfrastructureCloud DevelopmentApache Airflow+22

Coding blocks

Product Engineer And Java Mentor

Apr 2020 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs

Involved in revamping their existing products such as Course
purchase website, online IDE and problem practice platform
hackerblocks.
Only 15% of students were able to complete the online purchased
courses before the access expired , as a Product Engineer created a
FAQ list to get feedback from students about the issue and came
with the roadmap to add new features such as course pause feature
for 2 months so that students can get extra buffer and gamifying the
module assessments, the completion rate grew to 45%.
Revamped the curriculum for Data structures and algorithms using
Java and mentored college students for the same.
Curated around 400 Data Structures And Algorithms problems and
editorials on the practice platform hackerblocks

Nagarro

Associate Software Engineer

Jan 2020 – Apr 2020 · 3 mos

Worked on technologies such as core Java, springboot, build tools such as Maven and gradle, Hibernate ORM.

Google summer of code

Google Summer Of Code, Student Developer at Jboss Redhat Middleware

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019 · 2 mos · Remote

My project involved adding additional support for building container images by fabric8-maven-plugin.
The options which were needed to be added are:
1.Java Image Builder
2.Buildah

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)