Akash Saha

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

7+ years of experience in high-intensity environments
Proven success in debugging and fixing production errors
Actively mentors new hires and interns

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer in the Fintech and SaaS industries.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaProblem SolvingSoftware Architecture

Other Skills

AerospikeAmazon Web Services (AWS)Back-End Web DevelopmentC++Clean CodingCode ReviewCoding StandardsCommunicationComputer ScienceCross-team CollaborationDatabasesDependency Injection FrameworksDesign PatternsDistributed SystemsExtensive experience with 20+ AWS services

About

Software Engineer with a reputation of delivering results with high standards. I have strong programming background and design skills and proven success in debugging and fixing production errors spanning multiple components. I have 7+ years of experience in working in a high intensity, fast pace environment. I have been actively mentoring new hires and interns, getting them up to speed and help them become a valuable member of the team. I like learning new technologies and actively look for such opportunities in my work. Fields in computer science that I find particularly interesting are Software Architecture design, Distributed Computing and Machine Learning. Core Competencies: Software Development/Design/Debugging Distributed Systems, MicroServices JAVA, TypeScript, C++, Object Oriented Programming Extensive experience with 20+ AWS services NoSQL, Spring Framework, Dependency Injection Frameworks Mentorship

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 10 mos

Current Experience

Amazon

6 roles

Software Development Engineer II

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

SDE-II in Smart Home org, Alexa.

Software Development Engineer II

Promoted

Jun 2021 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

As part of ADFS (Amazon Distribution and Fulfilment Solutions) org, designing and building platform capabilities that allows partner teams to build and release their features with minimal work.
Contributions:
1. Key contributor to the tech strategy that allows 10+ teams to build and release their UI feature changes in a federated manner, with no dependency on one another.
2. Designed and built the component that enables all teams to capture client side logs and metrics with minimal code and onboarding effort.
3. Designed the Access Control i.e. AuthZ framework and mentored others for the implementation phase. Minimal code and onboarding effort for partner teams.
4. Designed and built the Gateway layer that enables UI to connect with 10+ backend applications owned by 8 different teams. Minimal code and onboarding effort for partner teams.
5. Currently owning the north star design and delivery of a general purpose configuration storage service within DC WMS. It serves 10+ backend applications as of today. Leading a team of 4 engineers for the same endeavour.

Problem SolvingBack-End Web DevelopmentCross-team CollaborationComputer ScienceJavagRPC+19

Software Development Engineer II

Dec 2020 – Jun 2021 · 6 mos

SDE in Amazon Pay, part of the team that built "Amazon Pay for Business" android app from scratch for offline unorganized merchants.
As part of this team, primarily worked on backend services and web application layer that power the mobile app. Led production readiness for the app that included Load testing, capturing of Client side metrics, App crash logs, enforcing Dashboarding and Monitoring best practices within the team. Owned all app releases to play store upto the first public release.
App was publicly released on 12th April, 2021. As of 16th July, 2021, there has been 500k+ downloads from the Google Play Store with an average rating of 4.3

Problem SolvingCross-team CollaborationComputer SciencegRPCClean CodingDistributed Systems+16

Software Development Engineer

Nov 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr

SDE in Amazon Pay

Problem SolvingCross-team CollaborationComputer SciencegRPCClean CodingDistributed Systems+15

Software Development Engineer

Jun 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

SDE in Amazon Business - Detail Page Experience team.
Worked on building and enhancing B2B specific product detail page features.
Worked on developing backend services from scratch that batch update product attributes in Amazon product catalog.

Problem SolvingCross-team CollaborationComputer ScienceClean CodingDistributed SystemsCode Review+11

Software Development Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

SDE Intern in Amazon Business - Detail Page Experience team.
Helped improving detail page experience of B2B customers.

Problem SolvingComputer ScienceObject Oriented DesignCommunication

Cleartrip

Software Engineer

Mar 2023 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Mid-Senior SDE in Cleartrip Hotels org.
Contributions
1. Conceptualized, designed and built a centralized Geo Intelligence Platform that can be leveraged
and enriched by any tech team within Cleartrip across LOBs (lines of businesses).
2. Integrated Geo Intelligence Platform with Hotels LOB to enable more accurate location tagging for
hotels, drive better hotel discovery and better locality and point of interest based hotels search
across all of India. This launch contributed to i. increase in locality, custom region tagging coverage
for hotels from 19% to 85%, ii. 10% increase in domestic hotel bookings.
3. Built the workflow based orchestration system for hotel on-boarding, hotel de-listing, hotel content
refresh and enrichment. This resulted in i. automation of earlier on-call heavy processes (2 day
effort on average each on-call shift), empowering Ops to carry out these processes from the UI
without any developer intervention, ii. 20% improvement in hotel content volume and quality.
4. Key contributor in driving performance optimizations, resource optimizations for micro services
owned by team.
5. Actively mentored junior engineers in the team.