Garima Arora

Senior Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States7 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led high-impact features for Amazon EMR.
Improved capacity provisioning for large-scale cloud infrastructure.
Strong cross-org collaboration and mentorship.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing expert specializing in scalable infrastructure and software development.

Contact

garimaarora740@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)Software Development

Other Skills

AWS GlueAlgorithm AnalysisAlgorithm DesignAlgorithm DevelopmentAlgorithm OptimizationAlgorithmsApache KafkaApache SparkData IngestionDatabasesHadoopJavaJavaScriptMicroservicesProgramming

About

Senior Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling highly reliable distributed systems at Amazon, specializing in capacity management, provisioning, and resilience for large-scale cloud infrastructure. Technical Lead for a team of 7 engineers on Amazon EMR, driving strategy, design, and delivery of high-impact features that improve capacity provisioning, scalability, and reliability for EMR–EC2 clusters. Known for owning ambiguous, high-visibility problem spaces and delivering end-to-end solutions with measurable business impact. Led multi-year initiatives with significant customer and revenue impact, including driving feature parity and adoption for EMR Instance Fleets and launching high-availability capabilities that improved customer retention. Enabled EMR on EC2 to operate reliably at extreme scale, supporting clusters with 28K+ EBS volumes and 10K+ EC2 instances. Led a cross-team effort with 13+ engineers across 6+ AWS teams to enable audit context support for Amazon EMR and AWS Glue Apache Spark jobs integrated with Lake Formation, strengthening security auditing, regulatory compliance, and customer troubleshooting. Strong cross-org collaborator working closely with partner teams such as EC2 on roadmap alignment and execution. Actively mentor engineers, conduct technical interviews, and partner directly with large customers during escalations and deep dives to drive durable platform improvements.

Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

2 roles

Sr. Software Development Engineer at AWS EMR

Promoted

Apr 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Technical lead for a team of 7 engineers focused on improving capacity provisioning experiences for Amazon EMR–EC2 clusters, driving design and delivery across ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces.
Led multiple customer-facing features, including enabling audit context support for Amazon EMR and AWS Glue Apache Spark native fine-grained access control (FGAC) and full table access (FTA) jobs integrated with Lake Formation, strengthening EMR’s security, governance, and auditability for regulatory compliance and customer troubleshooting.

Apache KafkaJavaHadoopApache SparkAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software Development

Software Development Engineer - II

May 2021 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

Contributed to platform-level security enhancements in Amazon EMR, improving default access controls and authentication pathways for customer clusters.
Improved the reliability of EMR’s integration test platform by mitigating EC2 capacity availability failures, increasing stability of the software release process.
Improve internal monitoring systems for EMR for early detection of customer impacting Large scale events
Led multiple features for EMR including :
High availability cluster support with instance fleets
Allow adding new instance types to EMR instance fleet configuration(Edit instance fleet)
Support capacity provisioning timeouts during cluster resize requests
Prioritized provisioning of instances types using allocation strategy
Large cluster support — support upto 10k and 28k EBS volumes per EMR cluster

JavaAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software DevelopmentHadoop

Amazon

2 roles

Software Development Engineer II

Dec 2020 – Apr 2021 · 4 mos

- Redesign UI components on Amazon seller onboarding tool.

Software Development Engineer

Feb 2019 – Dec 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Implemented UI for Amazon UPI payments(peer-to-peer transaction) on Amazon retail app.
Designed incident Management platform for Amazon IN Payments use cases to detect service provider outages and proactively warn/notify customers on Amazon retail app before proceeding with the transaction.
Designed and implemented an extensible notification service for the Amazon Retail seller onboarding platform that continues to support email and SMS communication across multiple onboarding workflows.

Oyo

Software Development Engineer

Jul 2018 – Feb 2019 · 7 mos · Gurgaon, India

Implemented scalable data ingestion infrastructure to aggregate hotel room pricing data from multiple sources into HDFS, with Hive-based querying to support analytical workloads and downstream modeling.
Implemented a core microservice responsible for maintaining a durable ledger of all transactions processed by the central service, as part of a migration from a monolithic architecture to a microservices-based platform.

HadoopMicroservicesData IngestionSoftware Development

Eko india financial services private limited

SDE intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Gurgaon, India

Worked on developing RESTful APIs for digital wallet and their integration with backend remittance services. Also developed Python libraries for remittance services provided by EKO India Financial Services Private Limited.

RESTful APIsPython