Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Launched a new hotels category landing page and revamped POI discovery against a hotel. Successfully POCed open-source tools to optimize third-party maps API usage and reduce associated costs.
• POCed free text search for hotels using Gen AI
• Owned the tenantization of the flights fare calendar to ensure price accuracy to the customer across various surfaces and offerings.
• Owned hotel supply system NFRs, reduced p95 latency of pricing system by around 40 %
• Owned many user path services which among other things indexed the static content of the hotels catalogue and managed the geo-database.
• Took multiple knowledge sharing sessions on synchrnous and asynchronous paradigms, familiarized the team with the intricacies of concurrency in the context of java: thread pool executor etc
• Tech used: Elasticsearch, Redis, GKE, Java

Jul 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

• In my role as SDE 1 :
• 1. I contributed to the design and implementation of UI-facing contracts of the hotels vertical to a server-driven architecture, improving extensibility and maintainability.
• 2. I contributed to search system rearchitecture of the hotels vertical that significantly reduced latencies by ~50% and introduced discovery enhancing widgets to improve user experience.
• 3. Migrated meta landing experience to search page.
• 4. Owned multiple user path services
• Tech used: Elasticsearch, Redis, GKE, Java