# Kushagra Dar

> SWE at Walmart | Ex-Amazon |

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/kushagradar

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Algorithms, Data Analysis, JAVA, Data Structures, Test Automation, and Linux. Strong engineering professional with a Masters Degree focused in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | United States
Search Index Platform Team

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Working in the Alexa team to fulfill Amazon Deletion Promise. 
Initiated a bug oncall process in the team so as to reduce the load on oncall at the same time reduce the service bugs by almost 80%. 
Designed, developed and deployed a metric aggregation agent which aggregates a given metric in a workflow thus giving us a wholistic view and reducing the manual effort to aggregate the metric by 100%.
Designed and developed a new model to encompass failing messages and reprocess them thus strengthening the process of deletion and maintaining customer trust.

### CS Grader @ The University of Texas at Dallas
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Texas, United States
Helped with the assessment of Homework assignments and Projects for CS2336

### Software Development Engineering Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked as a full-stack developer to develop a feature for increased seller interaction with Amazon. Created a Dispute Resolution Workflow which increases the Seller trust towards the company thus achieving Customer Satisfaction

### Grader @ The University of Texas at Dallas
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Assisting the professor for the course CS1136.112 - Computer Programming Lab

- Using ZyBooks for Grading and providing feedback for the Assignment and Lab Work of Students.

### Software Engineer @ SirionLabs
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New Delhi Area, India
Worked in the backend to develop a Rule Engine generator which saves time by reducing the request turnaround time by 35%

### Application Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Hyderabad, Telangana, India
1. REST Services: Increasing the Scalability, Visibility, and Reliability of the Project and Award Budget by 20% by creating REST Services for the same.
2. Fusion Web Applications: Attachments: Reducing the response time for budget management by 30% by providing support for the addition of a business object in the task flow. 
3. Fusion Web Applications: Task Descriptive Flex Fields: Reduced the customers' bug logs by 20% by providing a way for customers to add custom attributes to entities, and to define validation and display properties for them.

### Project Trainee @ Envestnet | Yodlee India
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### Intern @ AgreeYa Solutions
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
National Institute of Technology Raipur

### SSC
Boys' High School and College

### HSC
Boys' High School and College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kushagradar
- Website: https://github.com/kushagradarkdk

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Last updated: 2026-04-01