# Koninika Patil

> Software Development Engineer II at Amazon

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/koninika

Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying highly scalable, customer-facing systems across platforms. Proven ability to lead complex projects from concept to launch, driving key business metrics in high-traffic environments.

## Work Experience
### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Music
Jan 2023 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA
• Launched 5 high-visibility promotions driving 2M+ signups and led end-to-end implementation for new paid offer types (upfront payment, tiered pricing) across Amazon and third-party stores (iOS/Android).
• Integrated the subscription cancellation flow with a CMS, empowering marketing to rapidly launch A/B experiments. This optimization directly contributed to 100k+ 'cancel saves'.
• Replaced a complex legacy monolith by deploying a new, high-performance BFF microservice (RPC-based APIs) with its full CI/CD pipeline, ensuring data coherence across all voice and visual clients.
• Served as a key launch contributor for the "FanQuest" acquisition game, implementing its dynamic content architecture and reward email system.

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Music
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Replaced a critical streaming device limit error with an in-app upsell feature, driving 53k+ annualized upgrades to the Family Plan.
• Engineered the 'Swipe to Signup' feature, adding intentionality to the mobile flow and significantly reducing Customer Service load from accidental signups.
• Drove family plan adoption from 1.6 to 2.0+ members by revamping the 'Invite Family' page, replacing manual email entry with a shareable tiny URL and Prime Family import.
• Owned the high-risk, critical upgrade of the core 'Horizonte' (Spring-based) framework, navigating 3-4 major versions of breaking changes to deliver a stable migration with zero regressions, eliminating security vulnerabilities and unblocking future development.

### Software Engineer- Machine Learning @ Vyrill
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco
• Developed Real-Time Video Analytics Pipeline for integrated computer vision algorithms with product dashboards using GCP and AWS for brand content tracking. Tracked celebrity occurrences and influencer presence to help brands optimize targeted advertising and sales conversion.
• Created algorithms to detect and estimate demographics (age, gender, emotion) of faces in videos using Caffe, Keras, and TensorFlow, enabling diversity analysis for major brands.

### Machine Learning Intern @ Vyrill
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Maryland Baltimore County
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Software Engineer @ Persistent Systems
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Pune Area, India
•	Enhanced security of a chromatography automation product’s data by replacing generic File IO calls with Secure API calls
•	Generated Automated Unit Test Cases in C# for modules containing API changes and eliminated need for manual testing
•	Awarded ‘You made a Difference’ for contributions to development of Secure File Layer

### Project Intern @ Persistent Systems
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Pune Area, India
•	Deployed In-place, Chunk-level Data Deduplication in EXT4 File System on a customized CentOS kernel using C and Shell-Scripting
•	Reduced storage and comparison complexity 50% by storing MD5 fingerprint of data chunks


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
University of Maryland Baltimore County

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Engineering
Savitribai Phule Pune University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/koninikapatil

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Last updated: 2026-03-29