# Smitha Desai > Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/smitha Senior Software Engineer specializing in building scalable backend systems. Experienced in architecting APIs and global platform capabilities. Known for delivering high-impact platform improvements, automating operational workflows, and leading cross-team initiatives that improve system reliability, scalability, and developer productivity. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2024 – Present Just Walk Out(JWO) Technology • Led platform improvements and architectural initiatives for merchant systems. • Led team of SDEs to implement merchant system features and external APIs • Worked with Product team to define requirements and designed systems with testing plan, timelines and security certification. • Within Amazon worked with multiple teams spanning different organizations to enable seemless integration. Product: https://www.justwalkout.com/ ### Software Development Engineer 2 @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Seattle, Washington, United States Just Walk Out(JWO) Technology • Architected a configuration-driven approach to achieve dynamic merchant portal to serve JWO retail integration models and other 3P businesses. Led a team of SDEs to enable self-serve onboarding for new businesses. • Led a cross-team, cross-organization initiative to expand the JWO business to 4 countries and introduced multi-language support for the merchant portal. • Owned design and implementation of external APIs enabling programmatic catalog upload with 50%+ merchant adoption. Product: https://www.justwalkout.com/ Merchant Portal: http://portal-gotech.amazon.com/ ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area Just Walk Out(JWO) Technology • Designed core capabilities for the third-party Just Walk Out (JWO) merchant portal during product launch, enabling third-party retail partners to manage JWO-enabled stores. • Implemented catalog validation services preventing shopper checkout failures, proactively detecting issues before customer impact. Product: https://www.justwalkout.com/ Merchant Portal: http://portal-gotech.amazon.com/ Launch Announcement: https://venturebeat.com/ai/amazons-automated-checkouts-land-in-airports-via-cibo-express ### Software Engineer @ TeleBright Software Corporation Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Tools: Eclipse, PgAdmin, Visual Studio Code Language: Java8, Spring Boot, REST, JavaScript, Angular5, TypeScript, jQuery Server: Apache Tomcat, Node • Developing modules for ManageRight, a Telecom expense management tool using Java7, JavaScript • Responsible for all phases of SDLC for PayRight, an invoice management and analytics application developed using Angular5, TypeScript, Java8, Spring4 and REST • Automated the secure transfer of payment data for downstream payment processing. • Managing application deployment on servers using LINUX. • Increased customer satisfaction by generating reports from JReport, a BI analytics tool connected to PostgreSQL database Product: ManageRight – https://telebright.com/manageright/ ### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ George Mason University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Fairfax, Virginia • Worked as a Lab Instructor for the course Applied IT programming at GMU. Instructing the students about the course work on HTML, PHP and MySQL. • Leading a team of Teaching Assistants and coordinating with them to get the work done. • Responsible for grading and helping students individually with their questions during office hours. • Responsible for helping students with server configuration and programming. ### Application Development Intern @ Fannie Mae Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Reston, Virginia Tools: Eclipse, Oracle Language: Java, Servlet, Javascript, JQuery, JQuey UI and JQWidgets Server: Apache, Apache Shiro • Created a database using oracle for storing information related to security system. • Designed and developed an application using Eclipse IDE for security system. The application would give the report about threats for each asset at the application level and business level. • Analyzing the data and displaying it pictorially would help the asset owners to effectively handle the security threats. • Apache shiro was used to secure the system and access for only few users. • Servlet and Java were used for data manipulation. JDBC was used to connect to the database. Data was then presented pictorially using the JQuery Libraries like JQuery UI and JQWidgets ### Research Assistant @ Krasnow Institute of Advance Studies Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Fairfax Tools: Git, MySQL Workbench Languages: MySQL, PHP, Javascript, JQuery, AJAX, Python Web technologies: HTML,CSS Server: Apache URL: http://hippocampome.org/php/index.php • My responsibilities include developing website named hippocampome for the institute. • Local development was done using Apache server. GitHub was used to merge all the developments made. • Responsibilities included adding new features to the website. • Designed a document containing information about regression test cases. Collaboratively worked on automating unit testing for the website with the help of selenium and Python. ### Technology consultant @ Hewlett-Packard Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Bengaluru Area, India Tools: SAP Language : SAP ABAP, Java, Javascript • Collaboratively enhanced project Revgen which calculated the cost of items from procurement to sale using SAP ABAP • Developed application, HP University, that suggests and offers training programs for employee based on their attributes • The application used J2EE framework along with Java for modifying the data which was displayed using Javascrpt, JSP ### Intern @ Little Eye Labs Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bengaluru Area, India Tool: Little Eye Language: Java • Tested mobile application performance analysis and monitoring tool, and gathered data was used in benchmarking. Tool now acquired by Facebook Inc. • Developed program using core Java for the tool which retrieved the data collected as per user requirements ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Computer Science George Mason University Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science BNM Institute Of Technology Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ### Associate’s Degree in PCMB Vidya Mandir ind. PU college Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/smithadesai --- Source: https://flows.cv/smitha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/smitha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22