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Devansh Khanwalkar

Sr. Frontend Engineer at Amazon

Bengaluru

11+ years of work experience

Amazon
Apr 20251 yr 5 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

MxFatafat - MicroDrama from Amazon MXPlayer - Architected, Designed and led the development of mobile-first byte-sized entertainment videos in a reels like architecture which is currently a prime offering on Amazon MXPlayer App with ~200k Daily Active Users and 99.99% availability - Implementation of Native SSR caching optimisation to open up the feature as quickly as 2 seconds for even a 3G based Customer. This involved caching and serving JS bundles from App itself based on cut-off time. - The system allowed easy extendability to add features like subscription and Trial subscription and Google Ads integration as the users grew on the platform. - Feature was implemented as a WebView inside Android app which allowed and supported rapid experimentation as per product requirements over the time without the burden of App adoption. This resulted in building meaningful features for Customers. Strategic Frontend Platform Unification: MX Player & MiniTV - Led the strategic unification of MX Player and MiniTV Frontend platforms following Amazon's acquisition, significantly reducing codebase maintainability and operational overhead. - Architected a comprehensive high-level design and tech roadmap for the merged platforms, focusing on code quality, feature parity, operational efficiency, and SDE onboarding. - Secured stakeholder and leadership buy-in for the integration plan and guided cross-functional engineering teams to successful, on-timeline execution Amazon miniTV TV App: UI Architecture & Performance Optimization - Architected the User Interface for the Amazon miniTV TV application. - Designed and implemented a custom, performant spatial focus navigation system for low-CPU TV devices, reducing focus navigation time by ~98% (from 181ms to 2ms). - Developed reusable, "flavored" React components utilizing dynamic imports to efficiently share UI elements across mobile, desktop, and TV platforms, thereby minimizing codebase maintenance overhead.
Amazon
May 20214 yrsApr 2025

- Led a team of 4 Frontend engineers to design and develop miniTV Desktop UI with selective bundling so as to deliver minimal code to client and worked with Principal Engineers to design data flow for player. - Played Tech POC responsible for making miniTV SEO compliant and leading discussions with outsourced SEO agency. miniTV is now 95% SEO compliant (try searching Crushed!) - Single handedly Designed and Developed Amazon Context switcher for miniTV on Amazon India Retail App. This helps Amazon customers to switch between miniTV and other Amazon businesses (Fresh, Apay etc) without loosing context. Contributed to Amazon core UI modules to make it reusable for other businesses. miniTV was the first among all the tenants to deliver this feature on the Amazon India App.
Walmart Labs India
Aug 20191 yr 10 mosMay 2021

Greater Bengaluru Area

Walmart Pharmacy Global Store Finder (Electrode, Google maps JS SDK) Built a fully reusable react component that can find walmart pharmacy stores all around the U.S. by searching based on zip code, city or by store number directly. Stores are plotted on a fully interactive map and be selected for directions from current location. Search can be filtered based on type of services, radius of search, or type of vaccines available(FLU, COVID-19 etc) This service was highly used for COVID vaccinations across U.S. Walmart stores.
Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd)
Mar 20181 yr 6 mosAug 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Realtime SourcePeak HeatMap (Angular 6, Express, Webpack, AGM) Geohash to polygon plotting of customer source peaks over google maps using minimal API calls and complex map interactions that tells drivers about the customer peaks in realtime. Created an ultra light webview shown on idle screen of main partner (Driver) app. Incentives Webview (VueJS, Express, NodeJS) Webview that shows current schemes to the driver with all details of the incentives and account summary with detailed earnings and breakup. Highly optimized lightweight build that works in slow networks
OneDirect - CX Management Firm
Jun 201710 mosMar 2018

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Mailbox (ReactJS, Redux, NodeJS) Mailbox for enterprises to reply, respond and forward the conversations with all the features of a fully featured mailing system. Frontend done in React with Redux for state management and powered by REST APIs in the backend.
SmartOwner
Aug 20151 yr 11 mosJun 2017

Bengaluru Area, India

Client Dashboard (AngularJS, Highcharts, REST API) A fully featured dashboard with data analytics and graphical representation using Highcharts and AngularJS in Frontend and data retrieval using REST API built in java.
GitHub
@devanshkhanwalkar

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Education

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

Master of Computer Applications (MCA)

National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

20123 yrs2015
Acropolis Group of Institutions

B.C.A, Computer Applications

Acropolis Group of Institutions

20093 yrs2012

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Headline

Sr. Frontend Engineer at Amazon

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

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Work experience

Senior Frontend Engineer at Amazon, Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, MxFatafat - MicroDrama from Amazon MXPlayer - Architected, Designed and led the development of mobile-first byte-sized entertainment videos in a reels like architecture which is currently a prime offering on Amazon MXPlayer App with ~200k Daily Active Users and 99.99% availability - Implementation of Native SSR caching optimisation to open up the feature as quickly as 2 seconds for even a 3G based Customer. This involved caching and serving JS bundles from App itself based on cut-off time. - The system allowed easy extendability to add features like subscription and Trial subscription and Google Ads integration as the users grew on the platform. - Feature was implemented as a WebView inside Android app which allowed and supported rapid experimentation as per product requirements over the time without the burden of App adoption. This resulted in building meaningful features for Customers. Strategic Frontend Platform Unification: MX Player & MiniTV - Led the strategic unification of MX Player and MiniTV Frontend platforms following Amazon's acquisition, significantly reducing codebase maintainability and operational overhead. - Architected a comprehensive high-level design and tech roadmap for the merged platforms, focusing on code quality, feature parity, operational efficiency, and SDE onboarding. - Secured stakeholder and leadership buy-in for the integration plan and guided cross-functional engineering teams to successful, on-timeline execution Amazon miniTV TV App: UI Architecture & Performance Optimization - Architected the User Interface for the Amazon miniTV TV application. - Designed and implemented a custom, performant spatial focus navigation system for low-CPU TV devices, reducing focus navigation time by ~98% (from 181ms to 2ms). - Developed reusable, "flavored" React components utilizing dynamic imports to efficiently share UI elements across mobile, desktop, and TV platforms, thereby minimizing codebase maintenance overhead.

SDE II - Frontend at Amazon, May 2021 - Apr 2025 · 4 yrs, - Led a team of 4 Frontend engineers to design and develop miniTV Desktop UI with selective bundling so as to deliver minimal code to client and worked with Principal Engineers to design data flow for player. - Played Tech POC responsible for making miniTV SEO compliant and leading discussions with outsourced SEO agency. miniTV is now 95% SEO compliant (try searching Crushed!) - Single handedly Designed and Developed Amazon Context switcher for miniTV on Amazon India Retail App. This helps Amazon customers to switch between miniTV and other Amazon businesses (Fresh, Apay etc) without loosing context. Contributed to Amazon core UI modules to make it reusable for other businesses. miniTV was the first among all the tenants to deliver this feature on the Amazon India App.

Software Engineer at Walmart Labs India, Aug 2019 - May 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Walmart Pharmacy Global Store Finder (Electrode, Google maps JS SDK) Built a fully reusable react component that can find walmart pharmacy stores all around the U.S. by searching based on zip code, city or by store number directly. Stores are plotted on a fully interactive map and be selected for directions from current location. Search can be filtered based on type of services, radius of search, or type of vaccines available(FLU, COVID-19 etc) This service was highly used for COVID vaccinations across U.S. Walmart stores.

Software Development Engineer - Frontend at Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd), Mar 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Realtime SourcePeak HeatMap (Angular 6, Express, Webpack, AGM) Geohash to polygon plotting of customer source peaks over google maps using minimal API calls and complex map interactions that tells drivers about the customer peaks in realtime. Created an ultra light webview shown on idle screen of main partner (Driver) app. Incentives Webview (VueJS, Express, NodeJS) Webview that shows current schemes to the driver with all details of the incentives and account summary with detailed earnings and breakup. Highly optimized lightweight build that works in slow networks

Frontend Developer at OneDirect - CX Management Firm, Jun 2017 - Mar 2018 · 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Mailbox (ReactJS, Redux, NodeJS) Mailbox for enterprises to reply, respond and forward the conversations with all the features of a fully featured mailing system. Frontend done in React with Redux for state management and powered by REST APIs in the backend.

UX/UI Developer at SmartOwner, Aug 2015 - Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Client Dashboard (AngularJS, Highcharts, REST API) A fully featured dashboard with data analytics and graphical representation using Highcharts and AngularJS in Frontend and data retrieval using REST API built in java.

Education

Master of Computer Applications (MCA), National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

B.C.A, Computer Applications, Acropolis Group of Institutions

Public links

github: https://github.com/devanshkhanwalkar