# Avi Kaminetzky

> Senior Software Engineer at AJ Madison

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/avikaminetzky

I am a full-stack web developer with a passion for well architected code and complex technical challenges that require deep dives into all areas of the tech stack. I'm currently working at ajmadison.com where I contribute to a diverse set of projects including customer facing product experiences.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ AJ Madison
Jan 2021 – Present

### Software Developer @ CultureIQ
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
Culture IQ is a startup that builds solutions to enable HR teams to monitor culture and employee engagement. In addition to development and optimization work, I have authored comprehensive documentation (features, how-to guides, etc.), provide internal tech talks (stats, caching), contribute to PR reviews and pair coding, and serve as an internal evangelist for unit testing. 

Project work has included:
• Collaborated with the data science team to integrate statistics with survey reporting, achieved by translating math formulas to Numpy code.

• Debugged and tuned search relevance for comment search by exploring the ElasticSearch Explain API.

• Developed the employee portal in Angular and Python/Django used by clients to upload company directories for sending employee surveys.

• Contributed to performance optimizations including query tuning and database and in-memory caching that reduced slow web requests (5s+) by ~70%. Leveraged Redis caching for popular app features (user permissions, survey reporting), modified core survey results code to only compute data segments being viewed to reduce computation ~70%, and modified calculation of hierarchical survey results to reduce computation by ~10%.

### Software Developer @ WatchMaxx.com - Designer & Luxury Brand Watches
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Brooklyn NY
WatchMaxx is an e-commerce luxury watch retailer. My work at WatchMaxx focused primarily on their e-commerce presence and some internal systems.

Project highlights: 
• Developed and integrated React components into a legacy PHP inventory management application, including the back-end API and data-access layer. 

• Contributed to rewrite and feature enhancement of watchmaxx.com ecommerce site. 

• Implemented Solr for search to reduce gallery filtering load time from ~5s to <150ms. 

• Wrote cart logic with Scala and Slick, integrated multiple payments into checkout, rearchitected system to enable simple additions for new payment methods, and implemented client-side code in React.


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/avi-dev
- Website: https://avikaminetzky.dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-23