Experience

Software Development Engineer II/I — AWS Aurora

Amazon Web Services · Jun 2022 – Jul 2025

Worked on Aurora’s distributed database storage systems with a focus on durability, availability, and customer-impacting reliability.

• Owned and enhanced Aurora QA infrastructure for validating distributed replication paths across availability zones.
• Resolved critical Undo subsystem defects in MySQL affecting enterprise customers including Netflix and Paytm.
• Delivered cross-zone replication features for Aurora Graph DB, enabling adoption by enterprise clients such as Disney.
• Built high-throughput validation pipelines for latency-sensitive distributed systems using Java, Bash, and PostgreSQL.
• Reduced downtime risk by ~15%, improved availability by ~20%, and cut infrastructure costs by ~15%.

Tech: C++, Java, Linux, PostgreSQL, AWS EC2, Distributed Systems

Amazon Web Services · Jun 2021 – Jul 2021

• Designed and implemented a Java-based system to collect logs from 100,000+ Aurora nodes.
• Stored and processed logs using DynamoDB and built a visualization dashboard.
• Tool was integrated into production and led to a full-time offer.

Jan 2026 – Present

• Teaching Assistant II for graduate-level ML for Social Sciences course.
• Led grading, discussion sections, clarified theoretical concepts, and assisted students with assignments and projects.
• Reinforced understanding of Python, algorithms, probability, statistics, linear algebra, multivariable calculus and applied ML through hands-on problem solving.