Feb 2017 – Oct 2021 · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Diego, California, United States

• Just Do It Award by Jeff Bezos
• Led a team of Software Engineers to launch a new personalized product recommendations service for Amazon Homepage using a novel approach resulting in $MM+ increase in annual revenue and serving millions of customers at scale.
• Started a side project and grew a team of 15+ volunteers to successfully launch Amazon Gather - an internal platform for community and event management. Gained 500k+ users in 2 years and received ”Just Do It” award from Jeff Bezos during company all-hands for my Bias for Action and Innovation. Became essential platform during COVID-19 WFH times: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6727658687365816320/
• Collaborated with Scientists to train and deploy a novel Deep Learning based Language identification model for search queries on amazon.com and scaled it for 10,000+ requests/sec.
• Built full-stack software to handle and automate workflow of product images displayed on retail website.
• During the internship:
• Team: Amazon Imaging Research
• Implemented a novel approach for image clustering.
• Integrated the module in Image Quality Assurance tool to significantly enhance manual workflow.

Aug 2014 – Jul 2015 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• In the beginning, had an intensive training on technologies including Generic, Functional and Concurrent Programming, UNIX, C++, Java, JSP, Web Technologies, Scala, Databases.
• Built a SOAP service for Multi-threaded database access in a team of three, which was featured and showcased in the Global Town hall for its broad impact.
• After the training, I was part of a Product Controllers team responsible for developing a Financial Reporting Dashboard. I contributed to the development of a middle-tier Scala/Java service that interacted with a C# WPF client.

May 2013 – Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Bangalore, India

• Optimized a market risk analysis tool by implementing caching layer and parallel computing to significantly reduce the execution time.
• Technologies Used: Slang (Proprietary Language of Goldman Sachs).

May 2012 – Jun 2012 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked on “Online Education Portal” under Dr. Deepak B. Phatak as part of an Open Source Knowledge Initiative, "Ekalavya".
• Developed a Joomla! Extension E-Quiz module with arbitrary questions from the pool, given topic(s) and length in time and questions.