# Navneet Sinha > Software Engineer - Meta Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/navneet Software Engineer with over 6 years of experience in backend development initiatives and optimizing complex systems across various industries. Proven expertise in leading, designing and implementing scalable backend systems, handling cross-functional teams to enhance operational efficiency. Skilled in a diverse range of technologies including Python, Typescript, GraphQL, AWS, with a strong understanding of Machine Learning and AI applications. Eager to bring technical expertise, insight and operational excellence to a challenging new role. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Software Engineer II @ Hippo Insurance Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States - Leading the AI-LLM initiative within the Home Care organization to build a Handyman Chatbot Assistant leveraging ChatGPT, Langchain and Vector Databases. This tool will empower Hippo Agents to swiftly triage homeowner challenges and provide streamlined guidance, ensuring quicker and more accurate responses. - Architected a Data Representation and Ingestion Flow System, enhancing app-wide data management and user experience. Positioned within the BFF layer and utilizing GraphQL and Typescript, the system integrates seamlessly with Hippo microservices, standardizing interactions across web and mobile platforms. This innovation slashed engineer time for creating new paths and navigation by 70%. - Developed the Home Health Score for detailed property evaluations and co-created the Home Actions Recommendation System, streamlining task scheduling and maintenance recommendations. - Being an inaugural member of the Home Care team, significantly influenced user experience, spearheading the Hippo app’s Home Profile feature. Worked in close conjecture with the Product team on comprehensive domain understanding, enhancing engagement and enabling self-sufficient homeowners. - Technical Stack: Typescript, Python, GraphQL, ChatGPT, Langchain, Vector Database, EC2, RDS. ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California - Spearheaded the design and development of robust APIs, enabling the seamless sharing of curated Goodreads data with Kindle teams, thereby enhancing their personalization models. Orchestrated the creation of data pipelines for automated data refresh. - Engineered an administrative tool to efficiently manage access to the Goodreads public API, resulting in an impressive 85% reduction in scraping and abusive usage. This solution eliminated the need for manual intervention, saving multiple development hours during spam attacks. Orchestrated the sunsetting of vulnerable public APIs. - Orchestrated the strategic design and migration of Authentication and Authorization Services, transitioning from an in-house solution to Amazon Identity Service, serving 1.2 million customers. - Provided mentorship to summer interns on short-term projects and facilitated the onboarding of full-time engineers within the Foundation Team, guiding them through intricate technical initiatives. - Technical Stack: Ruby, Java, Rails, MySQL, Various AWS and Amazon Technologies (EC2, DynamoDB, Aurora, RDS, CDK, CFN, Lamba, Cradle, APIGateway, etc.). ### Software Development Engineer @ Wayfair Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Boston, Massachusetts - Collaborated on the creation of a Default and Behavior-based Personalization agent, focusing on developing services to deliver personalized events, item SKUs, and content recommendations throughout the Wayfair application and email ecosystem. Leveraged these enhancements to drive targeted advertising initiatives for potential customers to drive revenue generation. - Worked closely with Data Scientists to establish a platform for streamlined deployment and updates of Machine Learning models. Introduced Hot and Cold storage capabilities to optimize the management of Machine Learning models, ensuring efficient and scalable operations. - Played a key role in fine-tuning the API and website components, resulting in substantial improvements to overall website performance. This included optimizing critical aspects of the website's technical infrastructure and functionality. - Technical Stack: Python, React, JavaScript, Airflow, SQL, Hive-Hadoop. ### Graduate Technical Assistant @ Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Rochester, New York Area - Handle technical tasks and difficulties for the Computer Science Dept., faculty and students. - Responsible for handling department accounts, department systems and servers. - Shell scripts to manage and automate various tasks throughout the department. ### Full Stack Engineer @ Ahold Delhaize Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Carlisle, Pennsylvania - Upcoming tasks and store update notifier: A web and mobile (Android and IOS) application to alert store managers about different upcoming tasks and updates from the corporate. - Stock Expiration and Rotation: A mobile application to alert store managers and associates regarding rotation of perishable goods. - Audit System: A web and mobile application for auditing stores, store managers and different sections of the store. Wrote various Microservices. - Lead a team of co-ops on a mini project and bagged the Best Performing Team award. - Technical Stack: MEAN (Mongo, Express, AngularJS and Node.js), Docker, HTML, CSS, Ionic, Java Servlets and Shell Scripts. ### Research Assistant @ Microsoft Research Lab Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 - Project titled, "Computational Musicology: Music Perception" - Designing and Implementing Online Experiments for Exploring the Effect of Cognitive and Cultural Factors in People’s Preferences towards Musical Scales - Using Django as the framework, programmed oscillators to play a set of notes from a defined set of Ragas, in a random fashion. - Technical Stack: Django, HTML, CSS, Python. ### Software Engineering Intern @ JSoft Solutions Ltd. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 -Using ABAP, individually designed the fundamental system for the project titled “Related Parties Master Data” which aids further prospects of the company’s actions and decisions based on its employees and their relations. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science Rochester Institute of Technology Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Information Science and Engineering PES University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### High School in Computer Science Ramniranjan Podar High School Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/navneet27sinha --- Source: https://flows.cv/navneet JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/navneet/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22