# Soamya Agrawal > Software Engineer at Google | Master's in Computer Science at Columbia University | Software Development Engineer I Intern at Amazon | Software Developer at Flipkart | BITS Pilani Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/soamya A Master's in Computer Science student from Columbia University in the City of New York, I specialize in Computer Science and I am looking for opportunities in Software Development Engineering. My education along with three years of experience as a Software Development Engineer at Flipkart and three months of experience as a Software Development Engineer I Intern at Amazon has enabled me to attain a diversified set of skills. I have demonstrated proficiency in Java programming and software engineering. I have worked independently, used available resources to unblock myself and completed tasks on time by exercising strong judgment and problem-solving skills. I have collaborated with external teams to deliver large-scale, highly complex systems impacting billions of customers. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States Part of Flume Efficiency team. ### Software Development Engineer I Intern @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Analyzed and visualized Wi-Fi metrics of Amazon Echo devices using Amazon QuickSight • Designed and constructed a data processor pipeline and dashboard to analyze Wi-Fi connectivity metrics of Amazon Echo & Alexa devices in real-time. • Managed by OS device analysts to find out average latency grouped by various device properties, faulty and outlier data, and measure service's performance; eliminating manual work needed to debug on-call issues by ~90%. • Architected and developed the pipeline applying best practices for Infrastructure as code leveraging AWS CDK (TypeScript) for AWS S3, Kinesis Data Firehose, Lambda, Glue, Athena, QuickSight. ### Course Assistant for Introduction to Databases (CS 4111) @ Columbia University in the City of New York Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States CA for instructor Alexandros Biliris. • Assisted course for approximately 80 students. • Posted and graded four homework assignments and two exams. • Proctored mid-term and final examination. • Held weekly office hours of two-hour duration to help students with four homework assignment doubts and course material. • Corresponded and mentored twenty students via email, Courseworks, and Piazza. ### Course Assistant for Machine Learning course offered by Columbia University on edX @ Columbia University in the City of New York Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States CA for instructor John Paisley. • Attended weekly meetings. • Answered students' questions regarding course content, quizzes, and projects on the discussion forum. • Reviewed students' assignments (code) and provide instructional feedback. • Developed supplementary materials to facilitate the learning process. • Improved the course by students' feedback and performance data. ### Software Developer @ Flipkart Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru Area, India Team: Pricing and Promotions • Ideated, prototyped, tested, and documented the HLD and LLD changes to enable an end-to-end pipeline for delivery executives to assess the item exchanged by the customer; increasing doorstep acceptance rate by ~40%. • Enhanced an offer format to incentivize customers to purchase products from the same brand again by working on microservices across the stack; led to an increase in 3 million GMV. • Owned the platform to recommend promotions to sellers on the dashboard by extensively utilizing CRUD APIs for MySQL. • Architected and developed a conversational chatbot to respond to queries raised by business users of the pricing platform; cutting down the number of on-call tickets by ~20% and improved turn-around time drastically. • Initiated setting up alerts such as disk usage, ping alerts, 5xx responses for system health checks of various microservices utilized in the team. ### Software Development Intern @ Flipkart Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru Area, India Team: Pricing and Promotions • Created a plugin to automate regular backup for Aerospike using Python; adopted by 20+ teams across the company. • Devised and owned the service to delete data for archive products from Aerospike leveraging Apache Storm and Apache Kafka. ### Mentor @ Newton School Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 • Mentored 10 students(including non-cs background) on a full-stack web development course (MongoDB, ExpressJS, ReactJS, NodeJS (MERN) stack & Data Structures and Algorithms) and helped them in all actions possible. • Guided, motivated, and assisted with their questions, projects, assignments, and overall career guidance. • Helped solve the doubts and problems of other students as well on the Newton School chat tool (team collaboration tool, similar to Piazza). • Attended bi-weekly sync-up calls with the Newton School team, to retrospect and improve. ### Software Development Intern @ Bhaskaracharya Institute For Space Applications and Geo-Informatics Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Made a web portal that takes .shp and .dbf files and displays map and attributes providing different styling options such as graduated styling markers and colors. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Columbia University Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 ### B.E. (Hons.) in Computer Science BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/soamya-agrawal --- Source: https://flows.cv/soamya JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/soamya/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23