Bachelor of technology

Lead Software Engineer

Full-stack engineer in a team responsible for managing/securing the cloud resources for Expedia Group. 

Secure-by-default AMI for EG: Led a team of three to design and plan the release of the project. Contributed to building the infra using the Terraform scripts. The AMI acts as a default for the resources creation at Expedia Group being used across 450 AWS accounts. The hardened AMI saves 3k man-hours each quarter that went into patching the servers.

Migration of data pipeline to the EG deployment tool: Single-handedly migrated the data pipeline for the security team at EG. The contribution included the laying down of the migration process and execution with no downtime. Elasticsearch, Athena, and Kafka were the services that had 4 billion events following each day at a size of around 4 TB.

Lightweight search tool for Security Analysts: Designed and built the system from scratch. Contributed to a design proposal for the tool, setting up Elasticsearch and the backend of the search e

SDE II

Backend Engineer in a team responsible for facilitating posting/analytics across Social Networks, for an online reputation management company, Birdeye.

Google Plus/LinkedIn Integration: Built automated integrations with different Social platforms to provide real-time analytics and posting for 60k businesses. 

Lead Generation System Revamp: Revamped the lead generation system that was used to send millions of emails each day. The introduction of a tailor-made templating engine removed a lot of boilerplate code and made emails easy to configure. The time for sending a lead campaign (1M emails) reduced from 12 mins to 5 mins.

Senior Backend Engineer

Backend developer in a team working on the user’s buy experience, starting from landing page till order completion, for an e-commerce company selling about 60 million products.

Automatic application of Promos: A feature that automatically triggers the application of promos during checkout. Challenges included the understanding of each bit of the complex buy-flow. The company generates 100k orders each day, this feature being a crucial part.

Homepage Admin: Built from scratch a tool that helps to schedule banners/products that are being shown on the website’s landing page. Contributed to the backend to schedule the homepage and serve the content from CDNs. The website had around 240 million visits monthly.

Software Engineer I

Engineering Manager

Engineering at Spinny 🚗 | ex Expedia ✈️

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