Smit Modi

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States4 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Achieved $3 million savings through system optimization.
  • Designed scalable ETL pipelines for data ingestion.
  • Contributed to backend systems handling 1MM daily transactions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Cloud Computing and Data Engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Large Scale DeploymentsSoftware InfrastructureElastic Stack (elk)Apache KafkaProgramming LanguagesEtlRest ApisSoftware Development Life Cycle (sdlc)Image Processing

Other Skills

AzureScalaTemporalActiveMQLoad TestingMicrosoft Power AutomateLogstashMicrosoft Power AppsKibanaElasticsearchAzure DatabricksKafka StreamsgRPCMicrosoft AzureProlog

About

I am Smit Modi, a driven and results-oriented Software Engineer based in San Jose, California. Holding a Master's degree in Computer Science from Arizona State University and a Bachelor's in Computer Science from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information & Communication Technology, I bring a strong academic background to my professional journey. Currently, I am part of the team at Axon, where I thrive in developing scalable solutions and optimizing system performance. Some of my notable accomplishments include scaling the Checksum service using Autoscaler and contributing to a backend distributed system for Unlimited Storage System, resulting in significant cost savings. Before joining Axon, I gained valuable experience through internships and co-op positions at industry-leading companies like Intel and Goldman Sachs. My past projects range from enhancing operational efficiency through application integration to designing scalable ETL pipelines. I am passionate about utilizing cutting-edge technologies to tackle complex challenges and drive business growth. With a proven track record of success across different domains, I am dedicated to continuous learning and professional development. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn to explore more about my experiences and expertise.

Experience

4 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 2 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 11 mos
Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Software Engineer 2

Jul 2024Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Cloudwatch Logs Ingestion Services

Axon

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jun 2023Jun 2024 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area · Remote

  • Contributing to a backend distributed system in Scala for Unlimited Storage System featuring Archive &
  • Restore functionality using Temporal Engine, Workflow, and Activities.
  • The solution ensures eventual consistency across five backend services for 1MM daily transactions. This led to a significant 30% reduction in annual storage costs equating to $3 million in savings.
  • Scaled checksum service using ActiveMQ size-based Autoscaler by doing traffic analysis, system capacity calculation, and load testing in multiple regions to x3 max file size, resulting in 1.5Tb capacity.
  • Researched system architecture thoroughly to identify bottlenecks and proposed solutions to the leadership with consideration for various trade-offs. Finalized an approach integrating vertical and horizontal scaling methodologies, ensuring customer satisfaction and meeting deadlines.
  • Recognized as a top contributor in Azure abstraction layer development, pivotal in architecting a Monitoring & Alerts system with Grafana and Splunk logging, setting up infrastructure as code with K8s & ArgoApps.
  • Executed end-to-end testing with UI, authored 50+ unit tests with Mockito, and fixed 10+ production issues.
Large Scale DeploymentsAzureScalaTemporalSoftware Infrastructure

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

  • Designed and Developed a Decision engine using Apache Kafka, Databricks, and Scala to archive user’s data in Azure-Blob, achieving 30% more cost-effective than the existing pipeline.
  • Enhanced Distributed System communication time by 10% with migration from Thrift to gRPC & Protobuf.
Apache KafkaAzure DatabricksKafka StreamsgRPCScalaMicrosoft Azure

Intel corporation

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2022May 2023 · 9 mos · Hillsboro, Oregon, United States · Remote

  • On-boarded 5+ On-prem and Cloud applications to Elastic Search, Logstash, and Kibana to visualize
  • App-usage and Log-Analytics.
  • Developed a Subscribe feature in our App Store in Microsoft Power Apps using Power Automate Flow.
Microsoft Power AutomateLogstashElastic Stack (ELK)Microsoft Power AppsKibanaElasticsearch

Arizona state university

Graduate Services Assistant

Aug 2021Jun 2022 · 10 mos · Tempe, Arizona, United States

  • • Grader for the course: Intro to Programming Languages (CSE 240)
PrologC (Programming Language)SchemeC++Programming Languages

Goldman sachs

Software Engineer

Nov 2020Jul 2021 · 8 mos · India

  • Designed a scalable ETL pipeline in Java and Python, leveraging AWS S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC,
  • CloudWatch to ingest datasets from on-premise & cloud sources into Snowflake, using IaC with Terraform.
  • Collaborated as a member of a Data Engineering team, employing the Agile/Scrum methodology to enhance the code ingestion process for over 20 upstream teams.
  • Achieved successful ingestion of 50+ datasets, resulting in a remarkable 73% reduction in ingestion time and saving the business team 25% of manhours.
ETLAmazon Web Services (AWS)Python (Programming Language)TerraformJava

Vehant technologies formerly kritikal securescan

2 roles

Back End Developer

Jul 2019Oct 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Implemented the COVID-19 specific REST API in penalty management web microservice product.
  • Successfully developed and deployed a critical feature requested by multiple state governments of India during the COVID-19 pandemic, completing the task within a week, and serving approximately 25,000 users.
  • Suggested and Coded a locking mechanism feature enabling concurrent user collaboration and achieving a 50% efficiency improvement.
  • Improved a Licence Plate extraction engine by 10% by analyzing Nigeria’s data and added localization using Image processing and Deep Learning.
REST APIsImage ProcessingPHPDeep LearningPostgreSQL

Software Development intern

Jan 2019Jun 2019 · 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Developed and maintained PHP-based RESTful APIs for Search, Stats, and User Management in a penalty management web microservices project with a PostgreSQL database, serving over 8 State Governments of India across approximately 3500 centers.
  • Contributed to Full-SDLC including designing, testing, debugging, code-review & documentation.
DebuggingSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)TestingMicroservices

Dhirubhai ambani institute of information and communication technology

Summer Research Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Gujarat, India

  • • Extracted salient features from an image using the VGG16 Convolution Neural Network. Salient features are the prominent part of the image that the human eye catches first from any image.
Image ProcessingPython (Programming Language)Machine Learning

Education

Arizona State University

Masters — Computer Science

Aug 2021Apr 2023

Dhirubhai Ambani University

Bachelor of Technology — Information Technology

Jan 2015Jan 2019

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