Shivam Kushwaha

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 4 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Architected a bot mitigation platform saving $500K monthly.
Reduced checkout backend latency by 60% at Amazon.
Developed a high-performance computation engine in C++.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Tech Infrastructure expert with a focus on high-performance systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cyber DefenseDdos MitigationSpring FrameworkCloud ComputingHigh Performance ComputingC++Gis

Other Skills

AWS LambdaGeographic Information Systems (GIS)CUDADistributed SystemsStream ProcessingDDoSBot ProtectionGo (Programming Language)Apache FlinkAmazon Web Services (AWS)Pandas (Software)PostgreSQLSpring BootAmazon DynamodbComputer Networking

About

Professional with 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, capable of serving millions of requests per second. Have built business critical infrastructures from the ground up and tuned the existing ones to be more cost effective and resilient. Have strong fundamentals in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, Computer Networking, and High Performance Computing.

Experience

5 yrs 4 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Uber

2 roles

Sr Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos · Hybrid

Software Engineer 2

May 2023 – Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Hybrid

Architected and developed the platform for Bot mitigation, serving 1 million+ requests per second. Helped Uber save $500K+ monthly on bot traffic.
Built detection pipelines (streaming and batch) processing 100K+ events per second that detect bots in real time (<1 minute), with near zero false positives.
Wrote algorithms for bot detection and integrated business metrics like orders, trips, login, signup into system for false positive analysis and long running crawlers causing damage to business.
Optimized legacy service to reduce latency by 50% and operating cost of service to half.

Cyber DefenseDDoS Mitigation

Amazon

Software Engineer

Nov 2021 – Apr 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Owned the integration and development of showing fulfilment speed on pre-checkout experience and launched in India.
Reduced the latency of checkout backend services by 60% to unblock the project launch.
Optimised services to reduce the throttling and better load balancing.
Developed a widget to display shipment item information to customers in case of multi-shipment order.

Spring FrameworkAWS LambdaCloud Computing

Eigenrisk inc.

2 roles

Platform Engineer

Mar 2021 – Oct 2021 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Development and maintenance of High Performance Computation Engine (RACE Engine) written in C++ and CUDA.
Designed and Developed server monitoring tool for realtime feeds (C++, REST APIs).
Grabbing GIS data from multiple sources such as NASA and transforming it to company's platform format (Python).
Employee of the month March 2021.

C++Geographic Information Systems (GIS)High Performance Computing

Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Feb 2021 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Designed and Developed server monitoring tool for realtime feeds (C++, REST APIs).
Grabbing GIS data from multiple sources such as NASA and transforming it to company's platform format (Python).
Employee of the month Dec, 2020.

C++Geographic Information Systems (GIS)GIS