# Rheema Pednekar

> Staff Software Engineer at Box, Inc.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rheema

I am passionate about problem solving and building scalable backend systems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2016 – Present | Redwood City, California
Building Java frameworks for containerized RESTful micro-services using Spring Boot, JAX-RS, Jersey, Tomcat, Kubernetes, Docker etc.

### Software Engineering Manager @ Next Jump
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Perks at Work (managed by Next Jump)
- Led and managed a team of engineers to innovate in 2 week sprints in agile environment for Mercury, a proprietary email backend system that is used to send a few million marketing and customer service messages each week
- Developed product strategy, vision, and road map for Mercury such that it aligned with company strategy and CRM needs
-  Led design, architecture and implementation of ‘Drag-n-Drop Template Builder' with responsive design which increased email creation efficiency by 50%
- Led ‘Smart Remarketing’ and ‘Online CRM Calendar’ projects which improved email response rates by 20% and helped CRM, merchant, sales, and product teams collaborate efficiently
- Mentored junior members of the team
- Represented Next Jump at Cornell University’s career fair and conducted interviews

### Senior Software Engineer/ Tech Lead @ Next Jump
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013
- Worked on Java multithreaded assembler module to craft and send out high-volume marketing messages with dynamic content at 1MM emails/hour
- Developed web service APIs in Java/J2EE and Golang to manage users’ subscription activity and transactional emails
- Designed, developed, and maintained software features such as ‘Split Mailing System’ to automatically split and send mailing across multiple MTAs 
- Worked on email scheduler with conflict resolution system
- Led ‘Trigger Marketing’ project implementation to automate abandoned cart and recommendation emails based on users’ site activity and purchase history
- Collaborated with designers, engineers, product managers, and cross functional groups such as QA, DBA, Security, and Network Operations
- Provided training and guidance to junior team members

### Software Engineer @ Next Jump
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Lead Next Jump's Consumer Relationship Management Engineering Team
- Added custom features, reporting and analytics modules to 3rd party email backend system 
- Implemented email recommendation system that maps users to merchants based on their behavior on the marketplace to increase email response rates
- Implemented automation module to automate merchant recommendation emails 
- Awarded with the "Power Ranger" award for outstanding performance.

### Software Engineer @ Tata Consultancy Services
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Stony Brook University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12