Lavanya Dixit

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States9 yrs 10 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Nearly a decade of experience in software engineering.
  • Led impactful projects at Microsoft, Expedia, and Adobe.
  • Expertise in cloud migration and performance optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused software engineer with strong expertise in cloud solutions and user experience optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentConfiguration ManagementCloud EngineeringDatabase ManagementWeb DevelopmentApi Development

Other Skills

AWS RDSAgile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache KafkaAutomationBehavior Driven DevelopmentBehavior-Driven Development (BDD)CChroma Key Feature DevelopmentCloud MigrationData Flow DevelopmentEnglishGitHTMLJIRA

About

Creative and results-oriented software engineer having nearly a decade of experience in delivering consumer-focused solutions at very large scales. Throughout my career, I have spearheaded multiple projects with cross-functional teams of engineers, designers and product managers. I have worked with some leading companies like Microsoft, Expedia and Adobe to develop innovative and scalable systems for online shopping, travel and video conferencing platforms. Through these projects, I have been at the forefront of technologies like Large Language Models (Generative AI), server-less computing, etc.

Experience

9 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs
Average Tenure
1 yr 9 mos
Current Experience

Oracle

Engineering @ OCI

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Microsoft

Software Developer

Nov 2020Nov 2023 · 3 yrs · Hybrid

  • As a Software Developer at Microsoft within the Bing Shopping team, I spearheaded various impactful initiatives aimed at enhancing user experience and optimizing performance.
  • Development of a market-agnostic data flow, leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to improve search suggestions coverage by 35% and achieve a significant reduction in payload and storage size.
  • Led migration of product metadata sources and streamlined rating and reviews user experience.
  • Developed Bing Shopping Top Deals Widget and Related Search Carousel, which significantly increased traffic and revenue.
  • In Sovereign Cloud team I led efforts to improve configuration management in M365 workloads, implementing solutions that streamlined operations and reduced production incidents.
  • Developed a system that efficiently transported all configurations to a central configuration system.
  • Implemented a layered configuration architecture, effectively separating service configuration from business logic.
  • Enabled updating configs without redeploying which significantly reduced operational load and production outages.
  • Automated Configuration Replacement Solution for detecting and replacing in-code configs:
Large Language Models (LLMs)Configuration ManagementData Flow DevelopmentUser Experience OptimizationPerformance OptimizationSoftware Development

Expedia group

Software Engineer

Jul 2018Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Led cost optimization efforts for loyalty points microservice during cloud migration, achieving improved performance.
  • Enhanced read-write performance by migrating from MSSQL to AWS RDS.
  • Identified and addressed MongoDB IO bottlenecks, speeding up queries by 3x.
  • Successfully migrated service to AWS cloud, achieving ~99.5% availability and reducing maintenance costs.
  • Engineered new authentication using Kong API plugin for HMAC migration in Stored Value Platform.
  • Designed plug-and-play Idempotency Library for onboarding 8 Loyalty micro-services.
AWS RDSMongoDBKong APICloud MigrationPerformance OptimizationCloud Engineering+1

Adobe

Software Engineer

Jun 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Noida Area, India

  • Developed a Chroma Key feature for Adobe Connect to replace the static background with any prerecorded
  • video or image in real time to marketing or presentations. Received Best Innovation Award for the same.
  • Developed Aerospike command line standalone utility to query aerospike cluster (Node.js).
  • Designed and developed end to end web dashboards which fetch data from databases using REST API
  • and present it on any device for multiple Adobe teams (Spring, REST).
Chroma Key Feature DevelopmentREST APINode.jsWeb Dashboard DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentWeb Development

Snapdeal

Software Engineer

Jul 2015Apr 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos · Gurgaon, India

  • Writing scripts for Restful API.
  • Worked with SQL as well as NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Aerospike
  • Worked on big data messaging systems like Apache Kafka.
  • Used JBehave to develop an automation framework using a Behavior Driven Development approach.
RESTful APISQLNoSQLApache KafkaBehavior Driven DevelopmentAPI Development+1

Education

Aligarh Muslim University

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Software Engineering

Jan 2011Jan 2015

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