Headline

SDE 2 @ Amazon | Backend Engineer | Java | AWS | Distributed Systems | High-scale (200K+ TPS) | Low-latency Systems

About

Backend engineer at Amazon building high-throughput distributed systems for real-time device communication. Currently working on cloud-native services handling large-scale messaging pipelines using AWS (Kinesis, Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB). Focused on low-latency processing, system reliability, and cost-efficient scaling. Key areas: • High-scale event-driven systems (real-time pipelines) • Distributed routing & communication systems • Performance optimization and failure handling in production Previously built backend systems at BharatPe. Open to backend / distributed systems roles where I can work on high-scale, low-latency systems and solve complex infrastructure problems.

Location

India

AI stack

claude code

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codex

gemini

ChatGPT

JetBrains AI Assistant

Work experience

Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon, Oct 2024 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo, • Developed and scaled event-driven backend systems using AWS technologies for real-time device communication. • Designed high-throughput messaging pipelines, achieving low latency and high reliability. • Enhanced system performance by optimizing routing and batching strategies. • Led initiatives in failure handling and operational excellence for production systems.

Software Development Engineer at Amazon, Mar 2022 - Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Software Development Engineer at BharatPe, Feb 2021 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos, New Delhi, Delhi, India

Open Source Contributor at GirlScript Summer of Code, Mar 2020 - Jun 2020 · 4 mos

Software Engineer Intern at Infostretch, Dec 2019 - Mar 2020 · 4 mos

Education

BTech - Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, LDRP Institute of Technology & Research, Gujarat Technological University

Public links

github: https://github.com/zeal-v

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/Zeal__13