Hamsalekha Venkatesh

Software Engineer

Bellevue, Washington, United States11 yrs 2 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Expert in microservice-based architectures and cloud solutions.
  • AWS Solutions Architect certified.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in cloud solutions and microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaSpring BootGrpcBigtableKubernetesAwsSpring Framework

Other Skills

A/B TestingGuiceEV CacheGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Google Cloud DataflowCICDPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)SOXDockerDevOpsSpinnakerJenkinsJavaScriptTypeScript

About

Result-driven Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience in designing and implementing microservice-based architectures using Java, gRPC, and Spring Boot. Passionate about building scalable distributed systems and cloud solutions, supported by an AWS Solutions Architect (Associate) certification. Proficient in SDLC, Agile methodologies, and advanced Object-Oriented and distributed systems concepts. Checkout my Github link if you are interested :D https://github.com/Hamsalekha-Venkatesh

Experience

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

Netflix

Software Engineer (Page Construction and Recommender Systems)

Feb 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

  • 1) Optimized Homepage Recommender System: Productized the Rover ML model, reducing page construction costs by ~20%
  • YoY and improving core metrics by 1%. Eliminated the initial candidate pruning loop, saving ~$1.2M annually. Implemented
  • monitoring, alerting, and failover mechanisms to deliver production-ready, reliable code.
  • 2) Genre Row Candidates Optimization: Collaborated with data scientists to identify headroom in short genre rows, designing a
  • module to filter them early in the pipeline, improving Rover model efficiency by ~15% and reducing downstream genre
  • candidates by 50%. Onboarded and mentored a junior engineer, enabling them to independently deliver key features within
  • their first 2 months and accelerating the overall project timeline by 20%.
  • 3) Optimized Row Creation Process: Collaborated with data scientists to implement an Algo-Common style model for
  • automated, personalized row creation, reducing development time from 2 weeks to ~3 hours per row and enabling
JavaSpring BootA/B TestinggRPCGuiceEV Cache

Spotify

Senior Backend Engineer (Spotify Ads Reporting and Measurement)

Jan 2022Dec 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · United States · Remote

  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies:
  • Pilot Log-Level Reporting: Piloted log-level MTA data pipelines for 2 third-party partners, delivering exposure data (impressions, clicks, views) to partners’ data clean room (DCR). Implemented AES-256 encryption for partners requiring the highest security in DCRs, improving incremental attributable conversions (iAC) by 8%. Enabled advertisers to track KPIs, compare cross-publisher performance, and quantify advertising value for holistic marketing decisions.
  • MTA GA Rollout: Led a multi-month, cross-functional rollout onboarding eight partners to row-level MTA, achieving an 11% uplift in incremental conversions and 15% revenue growth (iRev). Designed a scalable production system to process 10× more data (270M → 3B rows), conducted load testing to validate infra capacity, and built dashboards with automated alerting for 100% SLA compliance. Delivered robust scripts ensuring reliable, daily pipeline delivery and health monitoring.
  • Migration and Data Warehouse Redesign (Nexus):
  • Designed and developed the backend from scratch in Java and gRPC for Nexus, a new Ads Reporting data warehouse built on BigTable and GCS. Delivered faster, scalable APIs (20% latency reduction) supporting up to 50 concurrent requests (vs. 12 in legacy design) with auto-retry, pagination, and real-time metrics at multiple granularities (hourly, daily, lifetime).
  • Ads Platform Insights Migration:
  • 3) Reduced total cost of ownership by ~30% by migrating Ads Platform Insights from ClickHouse to PostgreSQL. Optimized BigQuery runner jobs, data retention, and storage, improving maintainability. Performed in-depth tradeoff analysis across PostgreSQL, BigTable, Citus, and Spanner to identify the most cost-effective and performant solution.
  • Operational Excellence:
  • 4) Improved the on-call experience by creating a detailed handbook to help backend and data engineers triage and resolve alerts efficiently.
JavaBigTablegRPCGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Google Cloud Dataflow

Redfin

Senior Software Developer (Pipeline and Infrastructure Management )

Apr 2021Jan 2022 · 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • 1) Help build fast, robust, and secured CI/CD Pipeline system using Jenkins, spinnaker, AWS, k8s, artifactory for other feature teams to deliver quality code.
  • 2) Helped other development teams during their cloud-native transition journey to move their code base out of the monolith and start using the latest CICD pipeline which my team has designed.
  • 3) I worked on adding more workflows to the CI side (Jenkins) and added a lot of libraries and plugins to Jenkins using JTE (Jenkins Templating Engine) on Groovy.
KubernetesCICDPython (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)SOXDocker+4

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2 roles

Software Engineer (Zelle Pay $)

May 2020Mar 2021 · 10 mos · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

  • 1) Lead a team of 2 Junior Developers in developing a new feature called ‘Zelletag’ that allows customers and small-scale businesses to provide a customized handle to transact money in real-time. This increased the safety of P2P transactions through Zellepay by 35% and reduced several hundreds of fraudulent transactions in 2020.
  • 2) Engineered OAuth2.0 based authorization using SpringBoot and Java 11 to get Zelletag recommendations, which resulted in a 32% of the customer using this feature to perform transactions within 1 month of launching the product.
  • 3) Championed the effort in developing a reverse-proxy-based solution using Netflix’s Zuul to effectively route the traffic to different docker containers hosted in AWS thereby reducing the API response time by 62%. It also facilitated the easy deployment and testability of the microservices independently in higher environments.

Software Engineer (Payment Reconciliation Systems)

May 2019May 2020 · 1 yr · Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

  • 1. Worked on industrial standard best practices to code, deploy and test legacy payments Spring boot applications like AVS, Resellers, PMC, etc.
  • 2. Worked on establishing the CICD pipelines for automatic deployment and testing from scratch using Chef habitat for PMC applications. Interacted with the dev-ops team to establish the pipelines and moved the Spring boot code base into Chef monitored environment. These significantly reduced manual efforts and facilitated easy deployment process.
  • 3. Worked on security and vulnerability tools like Fortify to identify critical and high-risk issues and fixed them preemptively (in Java 8).
  • 4. Apart from that worked on technologies like Spring boot, Spring framework, Java 8, Mockito Powermock frameworks, cucumber testing.

Pearson

Associate Software Developer (Intern - Full-Stack- Realize LMS)

Jun 2016Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Chandler, Arizona

  • 1) Currently working on Front-end technologies like Angularjs, CSS, JS, HTML and Typescript to migrate Realize components from Angular 1 to
  • Angular 1.7 Version. Designed reusable components (in component-based architecture) to satisfy the requirement of new features
  • including shifting quick-links from horizontal to vertical position. Also, added end-to-end and spec tests to verify the functionality.
  • 2) Designed the backend for LTI Simulator in Spring Framework to verify the correctness of the cartridges as a part of Realize LMS.
  • 3) Established unit ( Junits ) and integrational ( Cucumber Test ) testing frameworks to ensure the quality of delivered code.
  • 4) Developed a search feature in Spring framework for a third party accessible dashboard and error reporting service feature called Intercom
  • and integrated it with Realize LMS. This allows customer support team to directly interact with customers and helps them report queries or
  • feedback about the product.
  • 5) Received management commendation for my work that significantly increased the microservice code quality (55% to 73%) by reducing code complexity and increasing branch coverages.
Spring BootJavaJavaScriptTypeScriptOracle DatabaseHTML

Arizona state university

Graduate Student

Aug 2014May 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos · Arizona

Education

Arizona State University

Master's Degree — Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2016

Anna University Chennai

Bachelor's Degree — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2010Jan 2014

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