Jul 2020 – Dec 2023 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

• ➤ Owned and setup complete infrastructure for one of the partners on GCP based on a shared VPC model with Terraform. This involved maintaining multiple Terraform configurations for networking, storage, containers, firewalls, service accounts, VMs, etc. Also involved complex landing zone setup with GCP and third-party firewalls with east-west traffic model in a completely air-gapped network
• ➤ Single-handedly separated the shared dev-prod cluster into individual region-based clusters without any downtime or disruption. Included planning for all failure scenarios and recovery plans in case of any issues. Made sure the migration was invisible to both users and developers.
• ➤ Built the entire Helm infrastructure code from scratch improving on the existing Kube YAML files and introduced the team with best practices on working with it. Setup new company-wide processes to follow regarding safe and available deployments.
• ➤ Led the development of a realtime-collabarative CRDT editor backend (backed by Yjs) with optimal, no-latency save and optimized DB operations. Built an extensible block-based ecosystem for future projects to reuse and build upon.
• ➤ Built and deployed a realtime video conference solution (backed by Jitsi) which involved setting up a Kubernetes cluster from scratch (done on a steep learning curve due to no previous experience). Also involved gather a lot of domain knowledge around video rendering, video delivery, WebRTC, encoding and decoding technologies to optimize the platform for low-bandwidth Indian regions. Customized Jitsi code to adapt for Indian networks and custom platform needs.

Oct 2019 – Jun 2020 · 8 mos

• ➤ Coordinated working with multiple SRE teams on improving availability across fleets and increasing efficiency.
• ➤ Kicked off and led a major migration effort as POC for the platform from old Perl systems to new Java systems. Required coordinating with >100+ internal partner teams and unblocking each requirement.
• ➤ Became the senior-most developer in the team due to attrition and massively brought all new hires (both on junior and senior levels) up to speed with the entire platform and its practices.
• ➤ Was POC for the platform for most of the major company-wide architectural projects that the platform was part of.

Jun 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• ➤ Part of core plaform/engine team that renders Amazon's Product Detail Page (one of internet's heaviest high-volume pages).
• ➤ Experience working on scale with fleets of >1000+ servers across worldwide.
• ➤ Gained expertise and provided valuable deliverables in JVM optimizations like heap size reduction, metaspace reduction leading in > MM $ savings across multiple fleets.
• ➤ Catered to API and platform requirements vended to >100+ internal partner teams.
• ➤ Participated in annual Black Friday sales and Prime Day sales and provided critical monitoring support, load test running and improved essential change management practices across the team. Fixed critical vulnerabilities and cost optimization on the fleet in the runway to the sale.

Jan 2017 – Apr 2017 · 3 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

• ➤ Performed analysis on student churn and retention based on learning data provided from comprehensive continuous-based learning applications.
• ➤ EDA and PCA in R (programming language) and Python. Created dashboards and visualizations to showcase insights and generate more questions for the data.

Jan 2017 – Apr 2017 · 3 mos · Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

• ➤ Taught and mentored students of the first in the Introduction to Programming course.
• ➤ Explained concepts during the practical laboratory sessions and attempted to help students with no experience of computer science to make headway into the course.
• ➤ Designed and assess lab sessions to improve basic programming concepts in C language.

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• ➤ Worked within the Detail Page team which handled rendering the Amazon product detail pages across the world. Learned about the Amazon development ecosystem and caught on to development practices like code reviews, on-calls, scrum meetings etc.
• ➤ Created a module auditing tool to track inter-dependencies between modules created by 100+ teams on the page and help developers understand the impact of changing contracts of those modules.
• ➤ Handled end-to-end complete implementation (both frontend and backend) in jQuery-HTML-Spring-Java stack.
• ➤ Created data flow and OOP diagrams for the solutions and ensured complete documentation for other developers to understand and extend the tool.
• ➤ Acquired a PPO based on the performance in the project.