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Amit Shinde

Engineering @ Spotify | Previously Rakuten, Udacity

Stockholm

10+ years of work experience

Spotify
Oct 20196 yrs 11 mosPresent

Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area

- Part of the team that manages payment experience for Spotify Premium and Audiobooks Purchase, which is used by 180+ countries. - Also been part of the team that managed the Customer Support tool used by customer support executives to solve customer issues.
Udacity
Jul 20189 mosMar 2019

New Delhi, Delhi, India

Udacity, Inc. is a for-profit ed-tech organization offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). ● Developed a quiz tool to recommend basic to advanced courses of web development, data science, artificial intelligence, based on the quiz results. ● Automated landing page creation process by integrating angular components to Contentful models. This reduced the new landing page launch time from 2 days to a couple of hours. ● Improved page load performance by lazy loading and optimizing images, reducing api calls using Memoize angular decorator. ● Implemented questionnaire forms in angular for user data collection to understand their educational/professional background, which was used to implement accurate course recommendations, career guidance services. ● Redesign of course overview pages, that showed high conversion rate in A/B test. ● Knowledge sharing among teams through weekly presentations and documentation.
Rakuten
Oct 20143 yrs 1 moOct 2017

Tokyo, Japan

Joined the seller experience team to build & improve the web applications used by sellers in Japan. - Designed and implemented features for our e-commerce applications that merchants used to increase sales/orders and streamline inventory. - Automated application build process with Build & Deploy technologies. - Leveraged Jenkins, Bamboo for Continuous Deployments/Delivery to decrease end-to-end deployment times and reduce downtime. - Optimised onboarding process for new developers by documenting software components, drawing architecture diagrams and creating Dockerfiles to set up their development environments. - Improved database bottlenecks of a high scale application by batching the repetitive database queries; this improved the item creation time by 40%. - Delivered technical talk on topics like Ansible, Continuous Integration and Deployment.

Amit’s AI Stack

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Education

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

20095 yrs2014

SM Choksey Jr College

20072 yrs2009

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Headline

Engineering @ Spotify | Previously Rakuten, Udacity

Location

Stockholm

AI stack

codex

opencode

claudecode

Work experience

Software Engineer at Spotify, Oct 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 11 mos, Greater Stockholm Metropolitan Area, - Part of the team that manages payment experience for Spotify Premium and Audiobooks Purchase, which is used by 180+ countries. - Also been part of the team that managed the Customer Support tool used by customer support executives to solve customer issues.

Software Engineer at Udacity, Jul 2018 - Mar 2019 · 9 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India, Udacity, Inc. is a for-profit ed-tech organization offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). ● Developed a quiz tool to recommend basic to advanced courses of web development, data science, artificial intelligence, based on the quiz results. ● Automated landing page creation process by integrating angular components to Contentful models. This reduced the new landing page launch time from 2 days to a couple of hours. ● Improved page load performance by lazy loading and optimizing images, reducing api calls using Memoize angular decorator. ● Implemented questionnaire forms in angular for user data collection to understand their educational/professional background, which was used to implement accurate course recommendations, career guidance services. ● Redesign of course overview pages, that showed high conversion rate in A/B test. ● Knowledge sharing among teams through weekly presentations and documentation.

Software Engineer at Rakuten, Oct 2014 - Oct 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo, Tokyo, Japan, Joined the seller experience team to build & improve the web applications used by sellers in Japan. - Designed and implemented features for our e-commerce applications that merchants used to increase sales/orders and streamline inventory. - Automated application build process with Build & Deploy technologies. - Leveraged Jenkins, Bamboo for Continuous Deployments/Delivery to decrease end-to-end deployment times and reduce downtime. - Optimised onboarding process for new developers by documenting software components, drawing architecture diagrams and creating Dockerfiles to set up their development environments. - Improved database bottlenecks of a high scale application by batching the repetitive database queries; this improved the item creation time by 40%. - Delivered technical talk on topics like Ansible, Continuous Integration and Deployment.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Pune Institute of Computer Technology

SM Choksey Jr College

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