Akshata

Architected and delivered a highly available, event-driven FX Service for Amazon Bazaar using Java, AWS, SNS/SQS, and DynamoDB, building high-throughput REST APIs to deliver real-time currency exchange rates for 2M+ active users across 10+ countries. Led the FX Service through production deployment and deployed CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and orchestrated ticketing for operational observability, maintaining zero Sev-2 production incidents since launch.

Authored

Low-Level Design (LLD) and developed the full-stack Customer Preferences feature using Java, REST APIs, DynamoDB, Vue.js, and TypeScript, enabling seamless management of customer language, country, and currency preferences for 2M+ active users.

Software Development Engineer I at Amazon (2024-05 – Present)

• Architected and delivered a highly available, event-driven FX Service for Amazon Bazaar using Java, AWS, SNS/SQS, and DynamoDB, building high-throughput REST APIs to deliver real-time currency exchange rates for 2M+ active users across 10+ countries.
• Led the FX Service through production deployment and deployed CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and orchestrated ticketing for operational observability, maintaining zero Sev-2 production incidents since launch.
• Authored Low-Level Design (LLD) and developed the full-stack Customer Preferences feature using Java, REST APIs, DynamoDB, Vue.js, and TypeScript, enabling seamless management of customer language, country, and currency preferences for 2M+ active users.
• Designed and implemented an infinite-scroll masonry layout for GlobalStore App Home and Landing pages, replacing the legacy row-column layout to improve product discovery and browsing experience.
• Expanded multilingual capabilities within the GlobalStore App by extending language availability from Simplified Chinese to English and additional locales. Designed the Phase 2 backend localization strategy and collaborated across teams to replace hardcoded text with scalable localization support.
• Implemented a dynamic product-specific size chart feature for GlobalStore App, replacing the legacy static image approach to deliver accurate sizing information tailored to individual products for 300K+ active users.
• Owned production operations for backend services through code reviews, CI/CD deployments, production monitoring, and on-call support, ensuring reliable service operation and timely resolution of customer-impacting issues.

Associate Software Engineer at British Telecom (2023-11 – 2024-04)

• Engineered scalable RESTful microservices using Java and Spring Boot, optimizing business logic, standard CRUD APIs, and SQL database relational layers for enterprise-scale deployments.

Software Development Engineer Intern at Amazon (2023-01 – 2023-07)

• Developed an automated solution to track data quality tickets across 25+ engineering teams, seamlessly aggregating key operational metrics including Time to Detect (TTD), Time to Resolve (TTR), and Time to Mitigate (TTM).
• Built an AWS solution using Lambda, Glue, S3, and Redshift to aggregate ticket data and power Amazon QuickSight dashboards with automated operational metrics.
• Eliminated manual metric calculations by streamlining reporting, improving data accuracy and saving approximately 3 hours per engineer per week.

Software Development Engineer Intern at Brane Enterprises Pvt Ltd (2021-10 – 2022-04)

• Built responsive mobile UIs using Flutter framework. Improved user engagement by 40% and reduced bounce rate by 25%.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering (2019-08 – 2023-05)