# Amruth V. > Software Engineer Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/amruth Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in backend development with a focus on product engineering. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelors of Science and Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) focused in Computer Science (Planning Algorithms) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Opal Security Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area Responsible for technical direction and spec review for the engineers on my team. Involved in roadmapping on a monthly cadence with input from sales and product on priorities and sequencing to deliver customer impact as the number one priority. Involved in recruiting for executives for the company. Sample projects include working on Authn/Authz to enable BYO IDP in an airgapped environment. Introduced a new permissions framework to enable users to have granular access across the entire Opal application. Also worked on CI/CD improvements that cut build times down 50%. Built out the Terraform provider for managing Opal as infrastructure with over 900k downloads as the #1Terraform provider for helping teams administer Identity Security. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Affirm Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area I lead the Batch Infrastructure team building the frameworks to manage and run Affirm's core business pipelines and analytics workloads. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Affirm Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California ### Payments Software Engineer @ Affirm Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Working on the Bank team building a high quality payments infrastructure platform. ### Product Software Engineer @ Affirm Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California I worked for a year on Affirm's Retail Engineering team aimed at helping Affirm grow its retail business. I delivered high impact changes that improved user perceived latencies for multiple components in the loan acquisition funnel. I also built a new product offering from scratch to drive conversion up funnel by letting consumers know how much they would be prequalified for at checkout time. During my tenure on the team, I had to work cross-functionally with many teams (e.g. product, compliance, legal, and engineering). ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 I taught two undergraduate courses, one on software engineering and the other on machine learning. Responsibilities included in-class-exercises, problem set writing and grading, exam writing and grading, holding office hours, and teaching recitations. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Square Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Intern on the Foundation Team ### SDE Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Redmond, Washington Windows Notifications Services ### Web Services Intern @ Nest Labs Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo Alto,California Developed a CLI to test migration to a NoSQL database as well as made a companion web portal for QA. Implemented a tool to help manage load balancing. ### Development Intern @ Novus Partners Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Winter externship Scala software developer. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Vecna Technologies Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Worked on designing and implementing a webapp for managing products. ### Research Intern @ MIT Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Cambridge, Massachusetts Worked in the Microphotonics Center researching approaches to design microdisk resonators for use in PDMS microfluidic devices. ## Education ### Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) in Computer Science (Planning Algorithms) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### High School University of North Texas Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/amruth-v-79b87a3b --- Source: https://flows.cv/amruth JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/amruth/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20