Tech Lead, Options Backend

• Part of Alexa Local Search team, help Alexa answer queries like "Find me a restaurant nearby."

• Enhanced Local Search service by adding support for attribute filtering. e.g. "Suggest me a restaurant that has patio seating, open at 7pm tomorrow"

• Solely setup scalable Search Relevance infrastructure using serverless lambdas to measure nDCG scores for local search queries. This helped to quantify our search performance category wise and focus on low performing categories.

• Street Search - Devised and aligned relevant stake holders on problem statement. Found effective and scalable solution to search for businesses on a given street. e.g. "Find Starbucks on El Camino Real"

• Local Commerce - Defined Problem Statement, devised ML based solutions to solve for Local Commerce queries. e.g. "Where can I buy shoes nearby?".

• Operational Excellence - Stanley award winner - Amazon internal award. Reduced fleet usage and fleet costs by a factor of 85%. Reduced service latency by a factor of 30%.

• Solely worked on and launched a Content Platform for Amazon.In. It is a one stop shop for customers to come and educate themselves about various events, brands, thus allowing them to make more educated purchase on the e-commerce platform. See https://amazon.in/magazine - Opens only in mobile

• Launched Gamification on Amazon.In. The project shows a quiz to users during campaign runs. Winners are awarded with certain rewards.

• Started sending automated marketing mobile push messages to users. Multiple programs were launched each of which catered to different sets of users depending on what bucket they lied in.

• Researched on a new technology called "service workers" that aims to provide the functionality of sending push notifications to users' browsers.

• Created on demand marketplace for household services.

• At Flashdoor our vision was to bring happiness to Indian households by giving them back time to spend on things they love and by providing opportunities to those who support them.

• Led the team to develop front end, back end and android app, with constant inputs and ever changing requirements from our business development team

• Developed two different backend services, one on Spring Framework, another on Play Framework and an android app using Android SDK

• Developed uber like android app to track real time location of delivery agents.

• Developed technologies like time sensitive cache, scheduler, algorithm to perfectly match delivery agent with location of new orders

• Setup customer support team including hiring, creating/sourcing CRM tools

• Digital marketing using Google, Facebook

• Setup analytics framework

• Launched AmazonBusiness.in

• Developed backend technologies for AmazonBusiness.in using technologies like Spring, Oracle DB, Dynamo DB, Simple Queue Service, Simple Notification Service, S3

• Developed Frontend using bootstrap, jQuery, ajax, native HTML, CSS, javascript