Jul 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

• Key Responsibilities
• Leading, building, and operating Java based distributed cross-region microservices with a strong emphasis on scalability, security, and supporting high-traffic with auto-scaling using AWS ECS, CloudWatch for metrics and alarms, and Route53, ELB, and DynamoDB Global tables to support failover for a robust active-active setup.
• Maintaining high operations and security bar by performing penetration and chaos testing using AWS Fault Injection Service, setting up custom IAM based API authorization, and running continuous production canary tests via Amazon EventBridge, logging failures to CloudWatch and enabling auto rollback on pipeline alarms.
• Leading a team of 3 engineers to execute migrations to cloud-native credential systems using AWS IAM to reduce technical debt, standardise security posture, and ensure backward compatibility for customers.
• Partnering closely with product, program, and quality teams to deliver features end-to-end across the SDLC, using Agile methodologies to translate product requirements into scalable, and maintainable systems.
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, guiding them through design reviews, improving code quality, and providing insight on implementation trade-offs and feature rollouts across teams.
• Achievements
• Designed and delivered a partitional service to replace regional replicas, achieving 67% infra footprint reduction in 37 regions, 90% faster onboarding for new AWS regions, and serving over 3 million requests per day.
• Enabled 1500+ TPS sustained throughput by replacing SQS based workflows with synchronous APIs, significantly simplifying debugging and failure isolation, using AWS ECS autoscaling based on real-time CPU utilization.
• Designed, developed, and launched a new LLM powered API to vend personalized voice prompts on Fire TVs using smart customer specific input signals which increased Alexa usage on FireTVs by 23%.

Jul 2021 – Jul 2023 · 2 yrs

• Key contributor in delivering video experiences on flagship products such as the Echo Show 15 and Fire TVs.
• Led the design and implementation for updating the text search screen on FireTV by adding a custom graphic prompting users to search with voice using Alexa leeding to an overall increase in Alexa usage and FireTv revenue
• Created a lightweight and flexible video player which could be commonly used for Echo Shows and Fire TVs.
• Designed, developed, and launched a new API to vend personalized voice prompts on Fire TVs using smart input signals that can serve traffic of over 2000 transactions per second in a highly efficient manner.
• Developed a new powered search experience using Sprint Boot and Alexa Presentation Language to onboard 3P providers such as YouTube, TikTok, Facebook Watch, and Instagram to Echo Show devices and deep linking it with the browser to enable streaming of the provider’s video content leading to a 70% increase in engagement.