# Shweta Sharma > Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude Location: Austin, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shwetasharma ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Amplitude Jan 2023 – Present | Austin, Texas, United States Leading efforts to build a distributed mutable file system to support data syncing between warehouses like Snowflake and Databricks with amplitude. This system is like a database processing inserts, updates, and deletes for >2M events / sec. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amplitude Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area - Co-led the development and release of a new batch processing pipeline that reduced costs by 15% compared to the realtime pipeline and helped onboard 25 new clients with >50B events monthly data volume. I was overseeing design and implementation, performance improvements, testing, and customer onboarding. - Collaborated with team member to build an internal monitoring tool that enhanced data collection transparency, tracking 5M+ metrics / minute. Took on additional frontend development responsibilities to ensure timely delivery of this tool which is used by 30+ CSMs for debugging customer issues. - Led the design and implementation of a new batch-based billing system for tracking monthly user count to support a new billing plan. ### Lead Engineer @ Affable.ai Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Singapore - Launched social media platform integrations enabling clients to search across 5M influencers globally. - Developed library for managing task dependencies that enhanced durability and throughput for social media micro services by 20%. - Designed scalable data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure to process >10M events daily. - Led the core Data Science team of 3 engineers to build proprietary Computer Vision and NLP models that power the influencer search engine. - Trained and grew the engineering team from 2 to 20 across 3 years. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Affable.ai Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Singapore - Optimized cloud spend across AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM thereby saving the company $100K. - Architected a service that maps social media profiles across different platforms using face, location, and biography analysis, thereby mapping 200k profiles with 96% accuracy. - Developed a magic-link authentication service to enable easy onboarding of influencers. - Developed a real-time Influencer recommender engine that improved usage and retention by 20%. ### Founder in Residence @ Entrepreneur First Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Singapore - Started an EdTech company that helps users learn their choice of language for day-to-day micro-tasks. - Successfully raised pre-seed round from Entrepreneur First; developed prototype for 3 clients, and validated the idea with over 100 users and language schools. ### Software Engineer @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Singapore - Developed a firm wide application in Python to help global teams manage regulatory rules for counter-parties. - Developed a support tool in Python for the sales team to create and schedule trade data reports, thereby reducing the number of support requests by 70%. ### Localization Software Development Intern @ Autodesk Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 - Developed an in-house translation tool to remove dependence on external vendors (C++) - Developed Groovy scripts for project customisations in JIRA - Developed a enterprise wide system to share applications (Node.js, JavaScript, MongoDB) ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering National University of Singapore ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shweta-sharma-in --- Source: https://flows.cv/shwetasharma JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shwetasharma/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22