Shashi Kant

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of Finsights for Amazon Go.
Designed BERT-powered data pipeline increasing revenue.
Expert in IoT and data retrieval technologies.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack engineer with expertise in SaaS and IoT solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon BedrockInternet Of Things (iot)Apache Spark

Other Skills

Amazon QuickSightEMR serverlesslake formationAmazon QAnthropic ClaudeEMRAmazon AthenaAWS Step FunctionsCData StructuresJSPJava Enterprise EditionServletsJavaREST

About

GitHub: https://github.com/thekant Blog: thinkndoawesome.blogspot.com Particular industry experience in Java/J2ee and web service development across technologies including REST/SOAP , Sping MVC & AOP ,Hibernate , JMS and Integration frameworks like Apache Camel. Professional objective of joining a values-driven organization, with potential to thrive and have maximum impact. Specific areas of interest: Data Retrieval ,Machine Learning and Social networks. Currently: Improving my Knowledge in Map Reduce (HDFS) , Apache Spark and Machine Learning

Experience

14 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 9 mos

Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

Sr SW Engineer (SDE III) at Amazon Go

Sep 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Architected and led an SDE team for development of "Finsights," establishing a single source of truth for store-level cost and pricing data that enables P&L generation, business intelligence, and profitability tracking across all "Just Walk Out" operations.
Developed a log spooling solution for IOT edge devices deployed in "Just Walk Out" store environments addressing $$$$ cloudwatch log costs.
Created and automated comprehensive Game Day testing frameworks for IOT infrastructure in "Just Walk Out" labs and device testing facilities.
Designed a chatbot for Device health monitoring on Amazon Bedrock with MCP tools powered by existing service APIs.
Developed a scalable SearchStoresV2 API for Libby (Store Metadata Service) to enhance query efficiency, and automated the migration of 100+ packages using a custom prompt-based script built with Amazon Q CLI (powered by Claude Sonnet and internal developer tools).

Internet of Things (IoT)Amazon QuickSightEMR serverlesslake formationAmazon BedrockAmazon Q+1

Amazon

2 roles

Software development engineer III

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Sep 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

"Sponsored Products" :
Led SDE team and cross-functional stakeholders (Product, TPM, Ad Sourcing, Advertisement Service) to design, build, and launch a BERT-powered data pipeline that solves cold start ads by leveraging product similarity to inject synthetic historical queries, delivering 4% revenue increase in IN and UK marketplaces.

EMRAmazon AthenaAWS Step FunctionsApache Spark

Software Development Engineer II

Sep 2019 – Mar 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

"Sponsored product Ads" :
Designed, experimented with, and deployed enhanced advertisement sourcing techniques using Spark, EMR, and SQL-based data pipelines to improve ad quality, expand coverage, and increase result depth for customer search queries on India marketplace Search, Browse and Detail pages.

Amazon web services

Software Development Engineer II

Aug 2017 – Aug 2019 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

"Infrastructure Supply Chain Automation for AWS" :
Designed and delivered "InventoryProjectionService" to provide real-time tracking of rack inventory—capturing manufacturing states, shipment locations, and delivery schedules from manufacturing sites through AWS data center deployment.
Led template modernization initiative for OFA purchase orders, transitioning to HTML5/FreeMarker architecture and creating "TemplateService," a microservice enabling JSON-to-template rendering on demand.
Contributed to core ordering and supply chain service development across the organization

Oracle india pvt. ltd

Senior Member Technical Staff

Mar 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

1. Developed v4.0 along with standardization of responses, logging support and exception handling for Oracle Process cloud BPM Rest Api.
1.1. Refactoring of v3.0 BPM Rest Apis.
2. Worked on Rules SDK and Human Workflow component for Oracle Process cloud.

Samsung r&d institute india

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2014 – Feb 2015 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore

1. As a part of SMenyu team:
1.1: Developed SMenyu-Manager webapp backEnd apis and Web Ui frontEnd .
Technology: [Spring4.0MVC, Hibernate3.0 , websockets , Apache-Velocity and html5 , javascript , jquery].
2. Android Stock Browser and SBrowser Team:
2.1: Stock Browser's bookmark with caching feature

Hewlett-packard

Systems/software Engineer

Aug 2011 – Jan 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Banglore

I worked with Consumer Travel team of HP r&d BSO.
Worked as part of EMD Rest and Revenue Accounting team.
worked on the development of RevenueAccounting Software that generates EMD sales data for various Airlines.
I was part of "EMD GDS Team" have worked on technologies including Soap, Axis2, Apache Camel, ActiveMq ,IBM WebSphere MQ.
My work required integration of Apache camel with websphere MQ and Google Guice as dependency Injection framework with JBOSS as runtime environment. Creation of Processor beans for specific business logic needs.

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

Summer Research Internship at IIT Kharagpur

May 2010 – Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Kharagpur I, India

Development of Robust Self-Organized Search Algorithm for Peer to Peer(P2P)Networks:
Developed a simulator for P2P networks along with a new Algorithm to produce a robust self organised way of searching in P2P networks. "In laymans terms divide the networks into dynamic communities whose size depends on the interest profiles of peers in there".