Shivakant Sharma

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Seattle, Washington, United States18 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in micro-service development and API onboarding.
Proven track record in application performance optimization.
Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a focus on micro-services and performance optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Api OnboardingData HandlingMicro-service DevelopmentPerformance ImprovementsEnd-to-end Solution DesignContent Scanning Apis

Other Skills

Account managementAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAmazon SQSAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)CC++Canary TestingCloud ComputingCollaborationCore JavaData StructuresDebuggingDeploymentDesign

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Experience

Amazon

3 roles

Software Development Manager

Promoted

Jun 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

Sr. Software Engineer

Oct 2019 – Jun 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Design and implement a solution to enable Alexa Skill Development for students (14+) on MIT's AppInventor
Work required careful analysis of data handling, account management and collaboration with MIT and multiple teams within Amazon.
Simplification of API onboarding to Skill Management API by automating service interface update from Swagger based API Specs

Data handlingAccount managementCollaborationAPI onboardingSwagger API

Software Development Engineer II

Dec 2016 – Oct 2019 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Skill Development Notifications apis: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/sdns/use-skill-development-notifications.html
End-to-end delivery including design, implementation, deployment of a micro-service. The service powers the notification hub on developer console and has minimum operational overhead.

Micro-service developmentDesignImplementationDeployment

Amazon development centre (india) private limited

2 roles

Software Development Engineer II

Promoted

Oct 2014 – Nov 2016 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Application performance improvements to reduce infrastructure costs
a. RemoteProductAggregator(Tier1 service, 10k+ servers, Perl/C++ codebase)
Project included compiler upgrade (gcc 4.1 -> 4.9), switch to high performing servers, service and load balancer fine-tuning to fully leverage new servers without causing any customer-impacting incidents.
b. ProductAggregatorService(Tier1 service, 10k+ servers, Java codebase)
The project included upgrade to high performing instances with more RAM, switch to G1 GC, optimize cache usage, switch to unbound DNS and multiple service level config optimizations.
With these changes, we were able to reduce fleet size by 90% (10k -> 1k).
The team was able to realize a savings of ~$5MM/year by optimizations, better hardware types, improved performance testing process and proactive scaling/descaling.

Performance improvementsInfrastructure optimizationService tuning

Software Development Engineer

Sep 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

> Designed an end to end solution for Price per unit (PPU) information computation
This includes:
a format specification for storing the configuration: specification format effortlessly supports wide variety of requirements laid out by EU regulators
a rule engine to process the specification for product's catalog data to compute PPU
a spreadsheet based rule submission for product category managers
tool to transform spreadsheet based requirement to specs format that can be consumed by the service
Working on designing and implementing a micro-service to automate scaling projection and hardware requirement for various services based on continuous/ad-hoc performance testing

End-to-end solution designMicro-service automation

Symantec

3 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2012 – Sep 2012 · 2 mos

Associate Software Engineer

Jun 2010 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Enterprise level content scanning API’s (CSAPI) major release 10.0, minor releases: 9.1, 9.1.1, and 9.1.3 containing multiple bug fixes and features.
Upgrade to Symantec’s proprietary antivirus engine EILegacy5 (from EILegacy3) to bring scanning performance improvements (detection rate, scanning time, heuristic detection), support for office 2007 formats(*.docx, *.xlsx etc) scanning.

Content scanning APIsPerformance improvements

Trainee

Jan 2010 – May 2010 · 4 mos

Project Title: "Feature Enhancements to Core Content Scanning Component in CSAPI"
Description: This project is aimed to integrate new features in current CSAPI to achieve functionality enhancement and performance improvement. These features are provided by latest version of core components namely AntiVirus Engine and Decomposer.
Language Used: C++
Platform: Windows
Software: Microsoft Visual Studio 2003

Feature enhancementsPerformance improvementsContent scanning APIs