Vinith S.

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States3 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Designed high-performance APIs achieving 99.99% availability.
Implemented anomaly detection saving $2 million annually.
Led development of live event publishing service.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Engineer specializing in Streaming and Cloud Technologies.

Contact

vsudhir@amazon.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

JavaAwsComputer Science

Other Skills

KotlinAWS LambdaAmazon Web Services (AWS)AWS CloudFormationTypeScriptSQLLinuxPythonShell ScriptingAWS Command Line Interface (CLI)Software DevelopmentSoftware TestingCascading Style Sheets (CSS)TeamworkC (Programming Language)

About

Software Engineer with experience building high-scale distributed systems at Amazon Prime Video. Specifically focused on Linear Distribution and Discovery, where I contributed to the architecture of Linear Search. Expert in designing low-latency, high-performance APIs and optimizing search experiences using OpenSearch. I enjoy solving complex scalability challenges using Java, Kotlin, and AWS.

Experience

3 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Amazon

Software Dev Engineer , Prime Video Technology

Jul 2022 – Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · Hybrid

Real-Time Video Search & Catalog Discovery
Designed and developed an anomaly detection system for the customer discovery experience, enabling the team to catch discoverability issues in under 30 minutes and potentially saving $2 million annually
Implemented a new unified filter strategy to provide customers with a single location to view all paid content, resulting in a projected annual revenue increase of 0.46%
Developed a system to automatically remove overlapping and duplicate content from carousels, improving the customer experience and reducing scroll fatigue
Live TV Search Engine
Jan 2025–Dec 2024
Designed and developed a high-performance API for building search queries and providing responses, achieving 99.99% availability
Led development for multiple components in the steady-state services to ingest linear TV catalog data into the search index within an SLA of 10 minutes from receiving updates
Designed utility tools to make the code reusable for various search related use cases.
The new search features on Linear content resulted in annual revenue increase of 4.2% for our team and 3.6% increase in stream starts
Designed and developed recovery tools for the search index, reducing time to recovery from an average of two hours to under 60 seconds
Real-Time Stream Orchestration Pipelines
Jul 2022–Jan 2024
Designed and developed a service to enable the publishing of cultural live events on Prime Video, expanding customer content to include talk shows, concerts, and events of national and international significance
Developed the capability to publish local live sporting events, allowing customers to watch regionally restricted sports content on Prime Video.
Designed and developed a system to publish live event metadata updates within 20 seconds, decreasing the previous update time from three hours
Served as the Security Policy Advisor for the wider organization

KotlinAWS LambdaAmazon Web Services (AWS)AWS CloudFormationTypeScriptJava+1

Prime video & amazon studios

Software Dev Engineer

Jul 2022 – Jan 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

KotlinAWS LambdaAmazon Web Services (AWS)AWS CloudFormationTypeScriptJava+1

New jersey institute of technology

2 roles

Full Stack Developer

Promoted

Feb 2022 – Jun 2022 · 4 mos · Newark, New Jersey, United States

Worked on developing the user interface for a GIS mapping system for the state of NJ project.
Used ArcGIS to publish web service with multiple dynamic map layers updated as per user requirement.
Worked with multiple ISPs to collect and organize data for Visualization.
Setup SQL database on PostgreSQL and web servers on Linux environment for hosting t

Computer ScienceSQLLinux

Graduate Assistant

Aug 2021 – Nov 2021 · 3 mos · Newark, New Jersey, United States

Assist DOS office with maintaining paper and electronic files, answer phone calls, triage student issues, data entry and other duties as assigned.
Assist the Dean with various programs and projects by creating and updating presentations, reports, flyers, and promotional material.
Work with Konica to print and distribute copies of such material. Maintain the DOS website.

Saartha

Intern

Jul 2019 – Aug 2019 · 1 mo · Greater Bengaluru Area

Built automated test on python using robot framework and selenium library for database performance.
Programmed shell scripts to automate server setup on Linux servers, and built docker containers to test pre-production software.
Role included debugging and troubleshooting code in a test-driven development environment.
Designed a block-chain framework for a future application and coached junior employees to adopt blockchain technology

PythonShell ScriptingComputer Science

Iotracx

Intern

Jul 2018 – Nov 2018 · 4 mos · IIIT-B

Built Blockchain application on IBM hyper-ledger fabric.
Modelled Business logic to implement supply chain application of Blockchain.
Participated in the understanding of the unique business and technical requirements.
Headed the back-end design team for the application

Qtcplus

Intern

Feb 2018 – Apr 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Smart Procurement using Blockchain Technology.
With growth in supply chain management, a simple and a powerful platform for tracking packages proves to be very efficient. We have come up with a very simple yet elegant solution for the same. We're providing an efficient and an user friendly GUI that is easily accessible to everyone in the industry.