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Senior Software Engineer | Ex-Amazon (8+ yrs) | Distributed Data Platforms and Stream Processing (2M+ TPS)

About

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, data platforms, and stream processing infrastructure. Over 8 years at Amazon, I led technical initiatives spanning architecture, platform strategy, operational excellence, and cross-organizational execution. At Amazon, I helped drive the FDP NextGen initiative from an initial prototype to a production platform processing over 2M events per second. The platform served hundreds of internal teams and avoided an estimated $8M in future engineering investment by addressing fundamental scalability constraints in the legacy architecture. I explored entrepreneurship by building an AI-powered legal research platform for Indian law firms. The experience provided hands-on exposure to product discovery, customer engagement, business evaluation, and modern AI application development, including retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), hybrid search, and large-scale data ingestion. I currently focus on backend engineering, distributed systems, stream processing, cloud-native platforms, and AI-enabled applications.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

antigravity

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Work experience

Founder & Senior Technical Consultant at Stealth Startup, Oct 2023 - Jun 2026 · 2 y 8 mo, Remote, • Founded and built an AI-powered legal research platform for Indian law firms, automating complex research, case management, and drafting workflows. • Designed court-data ingestion pipelines, implemented hybrid search (BM25 + vector retrieval) across legal judgments, and shipped a production system using Next.js and Python. • Assessed product-market fit and business viability, ultimately deciding not to scale the venture. • Subsequently delivered backend and LLM consulting engagements, including a RAG application and AWS optimizations that successfully reduced client infrastructure costs by 15%.

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, Jul 2015 - Sep 2023 · 8 yrs 3 mos, Hyderabad Area, India, Core Focus: Distributed Data Platforms & Stream Processing. Recognized with 4+ Director-level awards for delivering transformational impact on platform strategy, innovation, and customer obsession. Consistently operated at a senior/staff level, earning trust as the organization's go-to engineer. Key Achievements: • Strategic Leadership: Owned the end-to-end technical vision for 'FDP NextGen,' a VP-visible initiative to replace the legacy streaming platform serving 450+ teams. Secured architectural buy-in from 5+ Principal Engineers and Directors; scaled the team from 1 to 8+ engineers. • Architecture: Architected a new, stateless Flink-based platform designed for massive scale (100,000+ pipelines, 10M+ events/sec). Engineered a novel Two-Phase Commit protocol to ensure exactly-once data integrity during Data Lake ingestion — praised by Principal Engineers at AWS KDA. • Operational Excellence: Eliminated 200+ high-severity incidents per year and saved $360K annually through autoscaling redesign. Led zero-downtime migration of 1,000+ critical pipelines, saving 3 SDE-years of annual operational burden. • Customer Impact: Drove zero-code onboarding initiative that cut customer setup time from 2 weeks to under 3 days, enabling 540+ internal teams to self-serve. • Mentorship: Scaled the organization by mentoring 6+ engineers to promotion and conducting 120+ technical interviews. Skills: Distributed Systems · Apache Flink · Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Scalable Architecture · Java · Python · Stream Processing · Platform Architecture

Summer Intern at Vaultize, May 2014 - Jul 2014 · 3 mos, Pune, Designed and implemented an FTP interface layer over an HTTPS-based cloud storage system. • Protocol Engineering: Enabled users to map cloud storage accounts as local network drives using standard FTP clients. • System Integration: Engineered the translation logic to map standard File System calls to HTTPS APIs. • Compliance: Integrated with an FTP server library, ensuring strict compliance with FTP RFC standards.

Education

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology