# Aidana Kurmasheva

> Software Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aidana

Backend Developer skilled in Python, Django.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Palo Alto, California, United States
• Implemented ranking and pricing logic for high-QPS Amazon Ads and refactored it into a distributed AWS architecture to improve scalability, reduce coupling, and enable reliable CI/CD. 
• Ran continuous A/B experiments with data scientists, improving price accuracy and fairness and contributing to $40M+ in ARR.
• Owned Prime Day and Black Friday auction pricing initiatives, focusing on system availability and latency and achieving sub-100ms end-to-end auction times at peak traffic.
• Migrated two critical services across AWS regions and executed the rollout with no customer-visible impact using load and comparison testing.
• Built and maintained high-volume auction event logging used for analytics, experimentation, and downstream ML workflows.
• Migrated all Spark jobs in the auction system to a DMA-compliant infrastructure, ensuring regulatory and data governance requirements were met.

### Software Engineer @ Cleo
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Implemented customer-facing features end-to-end, building backend APIs and React Native mobile application components. 
• Built an email-integrated plugin that replaced a legacy support dashboard, significantly improving daily task efficiency for customer support teams.
• Refactored a monolithic backend into multiple microservices, improving scalability and developer velocity.
• Implemented Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations with external health benefit portals, enabling enterprise partnerships.
• Led GDPR compliance work across backend systems, enabling product expansion into EU markets.
• Increased automated test coverage from 80% to 95%, improving release reliability and confidence.
• Implemented analytics tracking across backend services to support product insights and experimentation.

### Back-end developer @ Codebusters
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Almaty, Kazakhstan
• Designed and implemented secure RESTful APIs, scalable database schemas and AWS infrastructure.
• Integrated payment systems into the projects(Cloud Payments, Stripe).
• Covered projects with unit tests.
• Implemented full text search using ElasticSearch.
• Integrated external services (Twilio, VoiceIt, Amazon Rekognition, OneSignal) into the projects.
Stack: Python/Django, PostgresSQL, AWS, Celery, Fabric, RabbitMQ .


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Information Systems
Kazakh-British Technical University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aidana-kurmasheva-440344131

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Last updated: 2026-04-01