# Abhinav Simha > Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon | Maps and Navigation Tech Lead | ex-PayPal Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/abhinavsimha ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2023 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Maps and Navigation Tech Lead for Amazon’s Digital Cabin ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States ### Software Engineer 2 @ PayPal Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California - Designed and implemented PayPal’s Unified Data GraphQL API used to report all merchant transactions across all subsidiaries like Braintree, Hyperwallet, iZettle, Venmo, etc. - Created a company-wide standard for isolating GraphQL schema utilizing node modules that allows developers to continue to develop services seamlessly while maintaining a single schema ownership with PayPal’s API Development Organization. - Developed the GraphQL API as an orchestration layer that merges and deduplicates API responses across all subsidiaries. - Designed a Unified Sandbox that can provide a seamless experience for merchants that use products across multiple PayPal subsidiaries. - Established as the Operational Excellence champion of the team and set guidelines and automation pipelines to help increase development efficiency. - Leading the Reporting and Back Office organization’s Monthly Demo initiative and working closely with senior leadership to establish inter-org collaboration and knowledge transfers. - Team expert in all things GraphQL, Jenkins Pipelines, and Apache Kafka, primarily Kafka Streams. ### Software Engineer 1 @ PayPal Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California - Implemented PayPal’s first ever production-grade Apache Kafka Streams microsystem used to determine customer drop-off from merchant websites in near real-time for the PayPal Shopping initiative thereby increasing total merchant sales for over 20 million merchants. - Designed and marketed an end-to-end Real-Time Event Detection Platform as a universal capability for all PayPal use cases handling over 80 million requests daily. - Established as PayPal’s domain expert on Kafka Streams. - Designed and implemented PayPal’s third-party commerce platform which allows merchants to move and sync e-commerce data across multiple marketplaces. - Led the end-to-end development of an API that can ingest orders from any external marketplaces in order to power PayPal Shipping. - Helped provide Virtual Bank Accounts for merchants across North America as a COVID-19 initiative. - Won the 2019 API World AWS API Hackathon by implementing an image storage and retrieval platform utilizing AWS S3, Rekognition API, and React. ### Software Engineering Intern @ PayPal Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California Identified a need to expose merchant-related data to various stakeholders/services within the PayPal architecture, i.e. Product Owners. Gained insight into PayPal data fabric and locations of vital views regarding Merchant Services products. Implemented an internal web dashboard employing a machine learning layer to provide a streamlined onboarding process for merchants joining the PayPal platform and created a REST API layer for consumption within PayPal. Key Contributions: • Needed to understand Teradata (PayPal partner for Analytic Data Storage) data fabric and architecture which stores Merchant Services data. Initiated and facilitated data integration/extraction methodologies with the global Teradata team. • Published necessary extensive documentation on important data locations and corporate access procedures that were unknown to the team prior to investigation and thereby allowing for faster ramp up time for new hires. • Facilitated machine learning innovation initiative sparked by the Director of Commerce Solutions and helped integrate a new machine learning company acquisition to drive more innovative solutions for Merchant Services Products. ### Data Analysis Intern @ Danaher Corporation Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara, California A large dental operating company within Danaher Corporation needed to implement a solution to predict customer retention and churn. Collaborated with a team of 3 data scientists to develop an IoT and data collection platform utilizing 10 years of historical data and conducted data cleanup and developed exploratory data analysis (EDA) models. Built valuable skills in data analytics, IoT concepts, and industry-related version control. Key Contributions: • Systemized and facilitated AWS Code Commit as the primary version control system into a team of 7 data scientists void of any version control and therefore increasing productivity, stimulating collaboration, and diminishing loss of production code. • Increased sales for the dental company with one of the first corporate IoT platforms deployed, thereby sparking the deployment of a corporate-wide IoT initiative. ### Data Mining and Analysis Intern in the Heat Program @ Stanford University Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, California - undertook various projects through the scope of Data Mining and the use of MySQL, PHP, and AWS - helped beta test the Google Glass product and conducted third party development on the Google Maps application for Google Glass - the internship helped foster within me a deep interest in machine learning and IoT for the future of products in our everyday lifestyle ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematics and Computer Science UC San Diego Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Dougherty Valley High School Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhinav-simha --- Source: https://flows.cv/abhinavsimha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/abhinavsimha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22