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# Roopal Vaid on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer @ Amazon \| IIIT Hyderabad

## About

Software engineer with 5\+ years at Amazon across three teams: building reliability, observability, and integration for the connector platform powering Amazon's genAI enterprise assistant \(Amazon Quick\); developing backend services for camera bring\-up and calibration on Just Walk Out's cashierless retail stores; and building distributed infrastructure, caching, and monitoring for the Just Walk Out store fleets\. My research background spans deep reinforcement learning \(UAV navigation at Siemens\) and NLP, including a publication at ACL 2022 from my Master's thesis research \(M\.S\. by Research, dual\-degree\) at IIIT Hyderabad\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

deepseek

hugging face

## Work experience

Software Engineer 2 at Amazon, Jul 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

Graduate Researcher at IIIT Hyderabad, Aug 2019 \- Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Greater Hyderabad Area

Research Intern at Siemens, May 2019 \- Aug 2019 · 4 mos, Bangalore, Developed deep reinforcement learning algorithms for indoor navigation in 3D space as well as worked on neuro evolutionary methods for better generalization of reinforcement learning algorithms\.

## Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad \(IIITH\)

Master of Science \- MS, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad \(IIITH\)

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