# Amit K. > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amitk ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2022 – Present * Lexical and Vector Search Infrastructure for Ranking Platform. * Scalable Storage Infrastructure for Ads, Machine Learning and Core Platform. ### Software Engineer @ Asana Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Building performant and stable API Infrastructure at Asana. • Lead the project to migrate the customer Webhooks and Events off redis infrastructure to Memory DB instances in AWS • Lead the project to reduce the median and p95 API latency by 30%. • Unified API framework to increase developer velocity and overhaul the legacy framework. ### Program Lead/Technical Lead @ Asana Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area Responsible for project delivery and execution for the API Team ### Principal Software Engineer @ Pandora Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area • Product features for next generation of Radio Experience • Backend storage system for efficient retrieval and querying of listener's spin information • Designed and implemented a feature store for ML runtime systems • Lead developer for recommender systems for offline radio • Introduced Apache Spark at Pandora • Designed and implemented several pipelines in spark and responsible for maintaining and setting up recommendation systems Spark Cluster • Content and collaborative recommendation systems for Music • Large scale fingerprinting of music for integration with labels and music providers • Developed Thumbprint Radio station service backend, Pandora's largest listened to station • Backend and data pipelines for several personalized, content and collaborative filtering based recommenders ### Staff Software Engineer @ Pandora Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Oakland, CA ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pandora Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | Oakland, CA ### Senior Backend Engineer @ Simple Energy Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Boulder, CO Big data, Back-end processing of large datasets in Cassandra. Web Services with Scala and Play. ### Head of Software Engineering @ UrFilez Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Colorado Springs, Colorado Area Implemented Music search and retrieval algorithms. ### Senior Developer @ OppenheimerFunds Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 As a part of an agile team, responsible for several long epic stories on code improvement and selection/evaluation of an ORM solution. Created best practices documents for unit testing, mocks and site templating using Sitemesh. Responsible for trouble shooting production issues related to concurrency and threads. Evaluated the software design and code structure of the site for cyclic dependencies and offered solutions based on software patterns. ### Research Programmer @ University of Illinois Jan 2005 – Jan 2010 Lead Developer and Architect of several n-tiered software systems. Provided consultations to faculty and researchers for the project requirements, infrastructure support and software development. Supervised the developers and consultants allocated to the projects. Introduced and developed software best practices and release guidelines. ### Software Programmer and Systems Administrator @ University of Maryland Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 Developed several LAMP and Java MVC based web applications including an Open Source XML document publishing system using XSLT, JDOM and Servlets. Administered several production and development servers including NFS, Apache web server and LDAP. ### Research Assistant @ University of Kentucky Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 Developed Lightbox, An Image comparison environment for the Department of English, and a Protein Shape Visualizer for the Department of Bio Informatics, using Java 3D and 2D. Developed a Graphical User Interface for Kentrack, a Fortran Library for rail track in Visual Basic. Developed a Statistical package in Visual Basic for Department of Agronomy. ### Geographic Information Systems Engineer @ Risk Management Inc Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 Visual basic and Map basic scripting, quality checks and quality analysis. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science University of Kentucky ### Other in Computer Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Bachelor of Engineering Punjabi University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kumaramit01 --- Source: https://flows.cv/amitk JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amitk/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12