Experience

Forward Deployment Engineer Intern - Sears KAlros Applied AI Division

New York, NY · Jun 2026 - Jul 2026

Contributed to an applied AI customer-support platform by connecting payment and conversational AI workflows to its backend. The work combined a React and Python application with MongoDB to support appliance troubleshooting, repair requests, and replacement orders.

• • Integrated Stripe payments into the customer-support workflow.
• • Added an MCP-compatible OpenAI chatbot for AI-assisted appliance diagnostics and order handling.

Tech: React, Python, MongoDB, Stripe, OpenAI, MCP

Software Development Engineer II/I - AWS Aurora Storage

Bengaluru, India · Jun 2022 - Jul 2025

Worked on the AWS Aurora database storage team, building features and supporting production systems for enterprise customers. Started as a Software Development Engineer and advanced to SDE II in October 2024 after taking ownership of QA infrastructure and reliability work.

• • Built and owned high-throughput validation infrastructure for distributed, latency-sensitive systems, reducing live-server deployment time by 70% and leading to adoption across Aurora teams.
• • Diagnosed and resolved five critical MySQL undo-log defects affecting Netflix, leading root-cause analysis and customer remediation within seven days.
• • Worked with three engineers to reduce cross-zone replication latency in Graph DB by 20%, supporting adoption by customers such as Disney.
• • Improved latency-sensitive C++ code with performance anomaly detection, reducing the likelihood of production downtime by 15%.
• • Reduced annual infrastructure costs by 15% through hardware modernization and removal of unused database nodes.
• • Mentored an intern for six months and consolidated the resulting work into production, improving database node availability by 20% through lock-free replication and a new gossip protocol.
• • Used session tokens in Linux Bash boot scripts to retrieve metadata from live AWS servers while deploying to more than 100,000 production nodes, maintaining adherence to security requirements.

Tech: C++, Java, Linux, Bash, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS EC2/S3/EMR/DDB, Low-latency systems, Distributed Systems

Software Development Engineer Intern - AWS Aurora Storage

Bengaluru, India · Jun 2021 - Jul 2021

Built an internal observability tool for the AWS Aurora storage team to bring transaction logs and node metrics together. The project was integrated into production and contributed to a full-time offer.

• • Designed a Java tool to collate transaction logs and metrics from live Aurora nodes across 77 AWS zones.
• • Stored the collected data in DynamoDB and built a dashboard for visualization and operational analysis.
• • Tool was integrated into production and led to a full-time offer.

Teaching Assistant II - Columbia University

New York, NY · Jan 2026 - May 2026

• • Teaching Assistant II for a graduate-level Natural Language Processing for Social Sciences course.
• • Led coding instruction and discussion sections, clarified theoretical concepts, and supported students with assignments and projects.
• • Reinforced Python, PyTorch, scikit-learn, algorithms, probability, statistics, linear algebra, multivariable calculus, and applied ML and NLP through hands-on problem solving.