# Kunal Setpal > Software Engineer at Meta | ex-Amazon Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kunalsetpal Innovative software engineer with over 8 years of experience in developing scalable, user friendly and award winning software systems (especially for Apple platforms). With clear communication and the ability to wear product, designer and engineering hats to solve a problem, I make a great teammate and budding leader. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### IOS Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States Amazon Health Played a key role in developing the full-stack landing page for One Medical on the Amazon retail website and mobile app following the acquisition. This initiative successfully directed millions of customers to One Medical. Served as a critical contributor to the flagship goal of launching One Medical benefits for Prime members. Engaged from the project's inception, handling investigations, high and low-level designs, scaling, and implementation. This role required extensive collaboration with various teams across Amazon. Acted as the tech owner of a central backend service, leading a workstream and overseeing two other engineers to integrate and restructure it to support multi-tenant capabilities across pan-health programs. Contributed to the development of collaboration features for the Amazon and One Medical iOS app. Amazon Care iOS App Managed all features related to the pre and post-care sections of the app. Developed functionalities that allowed customers to access their care summaries and view lab results. Additionally, simplified the debug menu using SwiftUI, enabling developers, QA, and product teams to test the app more efficiently. ### Design And Development Engineer @ Lutron Electronics Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ### Senior Project Software Engineer @ Lutron Electronics Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Philadelphia Area -  Worked on a team of 5 in a Lutron Hackathon to enable push notifications in the apps using SNS, APNs and firebase 
 -  Responsible for the system design and app software design for the schedules feature in the Lutron app for high end residential homeowners, saving calls to their installers and Lutron for minor tweaks 
 -  Worked on an infrastructure-as-code project using AWS cdk to migrate firmware upgrade servers from Heroku to AWS Lambdas with Amazon Aurora Database and RDS proxy. This helped bring down server maintenance costs by approximately 40%. 
 -  App lead of the Lighting Designer Mode of the Athena system, which won the coveted ‘Best of Year’ award in the Technology category by Interior Design Magazine in December 2020. Used Decorator and Dependency injection patterns to achieve a highly decoupled architecture. 
 -  Helped integrate the color-control feature of Lutron’s newly acquired Ketra system, which is one of the leading drivers of the company’s revenue. 
 -  Designed and implemented features while being the app component lead in a cross-functional team, to provide third-party integrations such as HomeKit, Google Home and Alexa, using Swift and Objective C. 
 -  Worked directly with Lutron tech support and customers to troubleshoot job site issues, contributing to positive reviews and ratings on the App Store. 
 -  Appointed as Senior Code Reviewer for the Lutron app code base early in the job role, due to contributions made to the Multi-Home feature and for possessing an extensive understanding of the code base. 
 -  Helped establish open PR policies and rules to improve the daily scrum execution within the app team. 
 -  Supervised 2 co-ops, trained new hires and been active in recruitment. 
 - Collaborated with other teams (cloud, processor, UX, etc.) to get customer facing features such as light schedule creation, user data privacy enhancements, etc. ### Ruby On Rails Developer @ Freelance Web Development Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Geocoder : Client wanted a simple website using google maps API, jquery that allows user to enter their address and the latitude and longitude of that place would be returned and plotted on the map ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Rochester, New York Area Software Design Patterns and Subsystem design - Help students with any question pertaining to the coursework or assignments - Grade assignments and exams - Assist the professor during class activities ### Developer (intern) @ Jobspire Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India Implemented Razorpay, the payment gateway for Alphadeal, a Ruby on rails web app that serves as a project management tool for the marketing domain. Helped deploy this project on Heroku. ### Software Developer (Co-op) @ Paychex Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Rochester, New York Area - PXI Imaging Rewrite: Full stack development of an internal web application using Asp.Net MVC5 framework and Oracle Sql Database. The app, which is a replacement for the legacy desktop version, is used to upload reports of various types. Used front-end technologies such as HTML5, angularJS with DropzoneJS library to implement the drag and drop files feature. Dependency Injection and Factory Design Patterns were used to create testable code. - Enterprise Reporting Service: Enhanced C# .Net web service that interacts with other web services through WCF to enhance performance in terms of the client making less number of service calls. Unit tested using Microsoft fakes. - FormsMonitor: Full stack development of an internal web application using Asp.Net MVC framework, which communicates with various external SOAP web services via WCF and is used to aid testers/analysts to see the status of onboarding of new clients. - Payx401kWorkFlowSvc: Added support for multi-subnet database failover for this .Net service. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Software Engineering Rochester Institute of Technology ### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer and Information Sciences, General Visvesvaraya Technological University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kunalsetpal --- Source: https://flows.cv/kunalsetpal JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kunalsetpal/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05