I’m Shagufta, a software engineer currently working at Amazon, where I contribute to high-performance backend services and distributed systems that enable advertising platforms to operate at global scale.

Experience

Cognida.aiSoftware Engineer

2026 — Now

Sunnyvale, California, United States

AmazonSoftware Development Engineer

2025 — Now

New York City Metropolitan Area

Amazon Ads

University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignGraduate Researcher

2024 — 2024

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Human-AI interaction research at the Social Computing Systems (SALT) Lab at UIUC.

Developed a collaborative platform for speech language pathologists to analyse human behaviors in videos using multimodal language models.

GlobalLogicSoftware Engineer Intern

2024 — 2024

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Dell TechnologiesSoftware Engineer

2023 — 2023

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Master of Science - MS

Mahindra University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

CHIREC International School

Experience+6

Education

Master of Science - MS

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

High School Diploma

Experience