# Simran Awadia

> Software Engineer, Team Lead

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/simranawadia

I'm a user-oriented software developer with an interest in building empowered teams.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Lead Backend Developer @ Arcade
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Team Lead @ Delphia
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* Developed a content generation engine by scrapping news articles, prompting GPT-4 through custom and asynchronously run LLM chains using LangChain, async Django and Postgres to create an engaging user feed and ask relevant opinion poll questions to generate sentiment insight

* Led a 5-person cross-functional engineering team in launching an aggregated consumer spending insights product on public companies using BigQuery, GCS, Plaid, Redis and SwiftUI that increased daily active users by ~20%

* Led multiple product launches that involved customer interviews, designing the software architecture, the GTM strategy, success metrics, experiments as well as collaboration with legal, compliance and senior leadership

* Held weekly one-on-ones with 2-4 direct reports for technical and interpersonal problem solving as well as navigating career growth opportunities

### Senior Software Developer @ Delphia
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* Developed an intraday portfolio performance graph by gathering minutely prices for 10,000 securities from IEX using server-side events in Python, internally processing transactions and propagating to mobile clients via Firebase Realtime Database

* Implemented a React app where users stake and earn tokens on the Ethereum blockchain for predicting sentiment reactions about public companies using Django, Infura, Google Pub/Sub, Solidity and TypeScript. The app garnered the highest stickiness rate of the platform

### Software Developer @ Delphia
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Co-developed a weekly sweepstakes with a $10 million jackpot, which generated ~500,000 tickets every week using Django and Celery. The feature doubled new user sign ups through its referral rewards mechanism

### Software Developer @ ScalePad
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada
* Designed and implemented a querying and aggregation engine for Elasticsearch using NEST/C# for ~100 million entries of data to enable instantaneous responses for B2B clients

* Contributed to an asynchronous webhook management service to propagate and synchronise information between 3 different CRMs to enable a tailored experience from acquisition to retention

### Summer Technology Analyst, Software Development @ Citi
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mississauga, Canada
Performed sentiment analysis on news stories using BERT and GloVe vector representations for
words with off-the-shelf machine learning algorithms and custom deep learning models using RNNs
and Attention layers

### Back End Development Intern @ Native Touch
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada

### Student Tutor @ McGill University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Tutors the following courses:
Comp 206: "Introduction To Software Systems" 
Comp 202: "Foundations of Programming"
Math 140:   "Calculus 1"

Tutors undergraduate students by breaking down course material and providing assignment strategies that enable application of the learnt content.

### Camp Companion @ The YMCAs of Québec
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Computer Science
McGill University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/simran-awadia-sa786

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Last updated: 2026-03-22