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title: "Amit Shinde - Software Engineer in Stockholm | Tal"
description: "Meet Amit Shinde, Engineering @ Spotify | Previously Rakuten, Udacity based in Stockholm. AI stack includes codex, opencode, and claudecode."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/amit-shinde/share-image"
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# Amit Shinde on Tal

## 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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