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Akshi Bhardwaj

Vancouver

Summary

Driven Software engineer with desire to take on new challenges. Always motivated to learn, strong work ethic, adaptability and problem solving approach. Also having fun on the tech-trip!

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services | Marketplace
Vancouver
06.2021 - 01.2024

AWS Marketplace's Product feed design

  • Ideated and designed the new product data S3 feed to sellers that got rid of hacky implementations in current system.
  • Successfully leveraged Flyway, S3 & Redshift spectrum to get rid of Amazon's black box ETL tool - Hammerstone.
  • New feed was not only operationally more manageable but enabled faster delivery (from daily to hourly) of product data feed to our sellers as a major tech dependency was eliminated.

Integrating Lambda UDFs with Ingestion system to enhance upstream data

  • Researched how to maximize throughput while integrating lambda UDF (User defined functions) with current Redshift based ingestion system.
  • Designed a generic proposal solution with parameters like timeouts, retries, concurrency settings that doesn't throttle upstream services.
  • Delivery improved substantially along with standard hourly delivery of reports rather than waiting 1 day for the old jobs that run on accumulated data throughout the day.

French Tax reports' delivery automation

  • Created a CD pipeline to ingest French tax data using S3 and Redshift, processed through Lambda and finally delivered to secure buckets using KMS.
  • Yearly reports to French government tax authorities started dispatching through automated jobs.

Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services | Elastic Block Store
Seattle
02.2020 - 05.2021

Statistics Platform Conversion & Fragmentation design

  • Designed a service which could handle ingesting ~2 GB files, fragmentize, process and even convert file types if necessary.
  • Implemented the solution using Elastic container service instead of previous Lambda which only supported 2048 memory read.
  • Also built failure handling system to avoid partial data writes, data duplicity to storage using buffer storages.

Software Engineer

Amadeus Labs
Bangalore
07.2016 - 07.2018

Altea Reservation Desktop

  • Developed RESTful web-services using JAX-RS framework and MyBatis framework for SQL.
  • Developed an Android mobile hybrid application (built using CORDOVA) with hardware (Beacons) plugins integration that consumes data from services and provides local app notifications.
  • Migrated database from SQL relational database to MongoDB.
  • Improved real time tracking and updates to user using Kafka jobs.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Texas At Dallas
Texas, U.S.A.
12-2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
Punjab, India
06-2016

Skills

Backend development: Java, Python, NodeJS
Cloud Technologies: Amazon Web Services (S3, SQS, CloudWatch, Lambda, Glue, CloudFormation, SNS, Redshift, KMS, ECS), Spark, Kafka, Hadoop Map-Reduce, MongoDB
Miscellaneous: Git, REST API, Microservices, HTML, CSS, Agile, SQL
Frameworks: Mockito, TestNG, Spring, Flyway
Soft skills: Team collaboration, Bias for action, Deliver results

Projects and publications

  • DavisBase – Rudimentary Database Engine (Java, HexEditing, File-per-table approach)
  • Volunteer Management portal (HTML,CSS Bootstrap, Javascript, PHP)
  • Live Emotion Detector (Python, Keras, OpenCV, Spyder, CNN, Fisherface)
  • [Publication] Script Identification from Offline Handwritten Characters using Combination of features

Coursework

  • Design & Analysis of Algorithms
  • Machine Learning
  • Statistical Methods for Data Science
  • Big Data Management
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Operating Systems
  • Distributed Computing

Interests

Traveling (have seen 14% of countries), Hiking, Art, Interior decor, Nutrition

Timeline

Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services | Marketplace
06.2021 - 01.2024

Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services | Elastic Block Store
02.2020 - 05.2021

Software Engineer

Amadeus Labs
07.2016 - 07.2018

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Texas At Dallas

Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering

Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology
Akshi Bhardwaj