Software Development Engineer

Back-End / Server Programming Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

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Summary

Contributed to an important Ads optimization project aimed at leveraging vendor-provided features for RSAs. This resulted in a 20% increase in ad impressions & a 2% increase in revenue.

Revamped edit functionality in Ad-processing workflows and reduced processing time by more than 30%.

Automated the process of syncing config changes introduced for device-specific bidding to optimize bids quicker and remove the need for 4 hours of SDE effort.

Worked on developing, testing, and launching an event-based syncing system built with ECS, DynamoDB, and SQS that would deprecate legacy cron jobs while reducing the duration to sync from 2 hours to 99% increase).

Spearheaded 2 peak events as team POC, coordinating with peers to identify and fix vulnerabilities in the system, reviewing dashboards and handbooks, and leading the team through smooth and successful peaks.

Designed and delivered a scalable AWS Lambda, which interacts with Amazon RDS, SQS, S3, and in-house API services to process Ad specific data and generate suitable sync requests to sub-systems.

Enhanced integration test suites and created custom metrics, dashboards, and alarms for the same on AWS Cloudwatch.

Upgraded major software versions on an existing Ruby on Rails service to resolve 10+ security risks and unblock pipelines blocked for more than a year.

Expectations

I would like to work for an organisation that emphasises innovation and customer obsession over all else.
I would like to work in a team full of enthusiastic engineers who are driven by the need to create products that solve real-world problems efficiently and elegantly.