# Shubha Swamy > Software Engineer @ Capital One Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shubha ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Capital One Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States • Working on large scale distributed data systems to protect consumer data (Data Governance, metadata management). • Designed and maintained high-performance backend services powering Capital One’s data governance platform used by 100+ internal teams, processing petabytes of data across AWS (S3, DynamoDB, RDS) • Redesigned legacy batch workflows into an event-driven, real-time data pipeline using Spark, AWS Glue, EMR, and Lambda, improving reliability and reducing metadata ingestion latency • Optimized Spark and AWS Glue jobs to scale from 1 TB in pre-prod to multi-petabyte workloads in production, improving performance and lowering infrastructure cost • Led end-to-end service architecture from design and implementation to observability, using OpenTelemetry to enable proactive monitoring and improve data quality • Collaborated cross-functionally with data platform teams, internal customers, and product to ensure data quality, regulatory compliance, and seamless integration with enterprise systems ### Software Engineer II @ Twitter Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 • Software engineer on Twitterʼs Auth Platform team working to protect userʼs data. Work with distributed systems at scale impacting millions of users. • Designed and built cost optimization improvements for our infrastructure for Authorization services, and helped save > $700K per annum. • Implemented features related to OAuth2 flows for all Twitter requests, system to tamper proof authentication data, centralized auth solution for all external requests, Twitter Single Sign On, and identity provider. • Improved services with cache optimizations, feature limits to reduce spam, and make services FTC-compliant. • Performed on-call duties including maintenance of teamʼs services, address customer questions and requests, manage service deployments and incidents, and debug issues related to service. ### Software Engineer @ Twitter Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Systems Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area • Interned on the AWS Serverless (Lambda, SNS, API Gateway, Step Functions, SQS, Event Bridge) team during Winter 2020 • Built internal tool, saving a 1000+ hrs per annum for the team, to automate creating, queuing, prioritizing, and tracking deployments made to AWS Serverless services across various regions. • Full-stack project built with React, DynamoDB, Python/ Flask, and AWS SNS. Designed, architected, and implemented the solution using distributed system principles. ### Computer Science Advisory Board Member @ University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Greater Denver Area • One of 2 students nominated to CS advisory board, composed of prominent members of academia and industry. • Offered guidance to the computer science department to advance technology programs and initiatives on campus. ### Algorithms (CSCI 3104) Course Assistant @ University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Denver Area • Held weekly office hours and review sessions, and helped faculty in the preparation of lecture materials for Algorithms (CSCI 3104). ### Software Development Methods and Tools (CSCI 3308) Course Assistant @ University of Colorado Boulder College of Engineering & Applied Science Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Denver Area • Held weekly office hours, maintained course website, assisted during recitations, and helped faculty in the preparation of lecture materials for Software Development Methods and Tools (CSCI 3308). ### Director @ HackCU Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Denver Area • Led CU Boulderʼs annual hackathon (600+ hackers from across the world) and organized campus events to support the developer community in Colorado. • Created marketing strategies to increase participation, managed team of 20+ students, organized event logistics, and helped raise $200k+ from 2017-2019 from sponsors. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Twitter Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Worked with distributed systems at scale to improve application performance. • Improved Twitterʼs latency for millions of users worldwide by setting up infrastructure and routing traffic through Edge Points of Presence (POPs) in the cloud. • Designed, implemented, and tested the edge network infrastructure. • Gathered and analyzed performance data using test requests. • Automated provisioning certs using Python • Cloud tools used include: AWS CloudFront, AWS ACM, AWS Lambda, and GCP BigQuery. ### Co Director @ SoSpectra Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Managed a team or awesome organizers and led partnerships with tech companies to benefit minorities interested in breaking into tech. • Impacted 500+ women and non-binary attendees to pursue STEM education. ### Hacker Experience @ SoSpectra Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Helped organize and design the experience for hackers at Spectra, an all womenʼs hackathon in the Bay Area. • Curated technical workshops run by prominent members of industry, formed partnerships with companies, and led event logistics. ### Developer Advocate Intern @ Typeform.com Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Contributed to new product integrations, i.e: Twilio, IBM Watson. • Improved efficiency by building a tool to automate keeping track of projects on GitHub built with Typeformʼs APIs. • Updated API documentation, created technical blog content for Typeformʼs developer products, advocated for API products. ### Engage Scholar @ Pinterest Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Participated in a series of interactive sessions focused on technical and professional development for computer science majors. • Sessions focused on providing Scholars with the skills to land, prepare for, and excel in Software Engineering positions, while also preparing Scholars for future career growth and development. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science, Minor in Economics University of Colorado Boulder ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shubhaswamy - Portfolio: http://shubhaswamy.com/ - GitHub: https://github.com/shubhaswamy --- Source: https://flows.cv/shubha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shubha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29