# Avi Ghayalod > SDE, ECS @ AWS Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/avighayalod Skilled in Computer Science, Full-Stack Development, Trading, C#, Python, and Java. Strong business development professional in process of acquiring a Bachelor of Science - BS focused in Computer Science from The University of Texas at Austin. ## Work Experience ### Software Developer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2024 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Elastic Container Services (ECS) Launched ECS Managed Instances ### Software Engineer @ Citi Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States Liquidity Services ### Corporate Team Member @ Freetail Hackers Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Austin, Texas Area Currently part of the corporate team at Freetail Hackers, responsible for reaching out to companies and fundraising HackTX, one of the largest hackathons in the country. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Part of the Specialized Buying team within Supply Chain Optimization Team • Designed and developed full-stack scalable solution to automatically notify users of ongoing issues within buying platform • Reduced on-call team clutter by 35% as well as increased outreach of buying system to an additional 200+ users • Scaled usage of REST API using DynamoDB and Lambda with AWS CDK to enable usage by 5+ other teams around SCOT • Designed modular Angular UI component in pair with API to accurately display dynamic notifications on any UI ### Software Developer Intern @ Citi Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area • Developed a secure, convenient system for viewing multiple PDF documents within a single browser tab • Utilized Angular to scale component to enable usage by over 15 other teams within SMC • Expedited process of searching over 1000 documents by 50% by directly linking desired text to its original context in PDF • Assessed issues with contact creation within SQL database and designed new efficient system of storing contacts ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Citi Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Dallas, Texas, United States Created REST API built on DynamoDB to enable a prototype of potential finance portfolio banking application Working within Commercial Credit Risk team shifting tickler system from Monolithic system to a Microservice architecture using Spring and Spring boot Worked on testing and increasing code coverage enabling a smooth delivery to production, contributed test cases and methodologies that increased 30% of overall code and security coverage using SonarLint ### Data Curation and Deployment Co Lead @ Lucratyva Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States • Lucratyva, LLC is a student-run incubator hedge fund that utilizes data and technological research to develop robust algorithms used for diversified asset allocation in foreign and domestic markets. • Personally responsible for using various API’s as well as SQL to collect and manage data as well as C# and LEAN to efficiently deploy strategies to market ### Undergraduate Researcher @ The University of Texas at Austin Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area Analyzed RNA-sequencing datasets through next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies to study the gene expression patterns associated with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the University of Texas Utilized Python DataFrames in a Unix environment for Differential Expression Analysis Documented NGS data on Jupyter Notebook with the principal investigator and peers ### Co-Founder @ Sent Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Austin, Texas Area I am currently on the founding team of "Sent", the first application that enables the long distance delivery of goods from home to university using other students who are currently traveling for a far cheaper fare than regular shipping. Participating in the ongoing full stack development of the mobile application using flutter and firebase paired with a myriad of API's to handle various tasks. Also engaged in the backend of aspect with Node.JS Won 8th place out of 50+ teams at Longhorn Investment Competition and accepted into Longhorn Startup Program Featured on the Daily Texan ### RPA COE Intern at UPS @ UPS Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Wayne, New Jersey, United States Worked on RPA COE Team at UPS using UIPath and C# with TFS to automate processes around UPS. Created bot that had over 80% in time savings as well as helped revamp bot scheduling process. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Thincredblu Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai Area, India I interned at ThincRedBlu Securities for the past summer in Mumbai India. ThincRedBlu is India’s first community-powered broker for traders. I used the trading software Amibroker paired with its associated language AFL to help develop functions that would help traders quickly identify profitable trades. This required me to learn financial and trading basics as well as statistics to better analyze and predict profitable trades while integrating portfolio risk management. In order to include all these factors I gained exposure to developing algorithms capable of weighing different factors by one another and sorting objects. ### On Site Code Advisor @ Code Ninjas Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Denville, New Jersey At Code Ninjas, I worked as a on-site code advisor responsible for overseeing the coding aspect for all students on the floor at the time. Through this experience, I have enhanced my ability to simplify and explain code as well as engage in conversation with a potential customer and market the benefits of our particular product. I worked directly with the children requiring me to break down the code into its simplest parts so that it could be understood by the students. I also was required to give progress reports to the parents and market the business to potential customers exposing me to the world of marketing and convincing a user of a particular product. ### Software Intern @ The Maker Depot Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Totowa, New Jersey, USA I interned at the Maker Depot along with Frank Cornacchiulo, one of the co-founders at the Maker Depot as well an adjunct professor at Lehman College. We worked on a set of applications for Montclair State University to improve their visual design program. Primarily, I was responsible for helping to create an application that was capable of mapping rooms in a virtual space. This gave me exposure to Unity as well as working with C# paired with Apple's ARKit Version 1. I was also responsible for the reorganization of the space as a whole and managing the inventory around the space to increase efficiency and overall workflow around the working space. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin ### High School Diploma in Mathematics, Science, and Engineering The Academy for Mathematics, Science, and Engineering ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avi-ghayalod --- Source: https://flows.cv/avighayalod JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/avighayalod/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05