# Vinod Mehra

> Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Location: Pleasanton, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vinodmehra

Experienced in high scale distributed systems. Microservices architecture. Backend infrastructure and platform development. Realtime Streaming platforms with Flink/Kinesis/Kafka. Rdbms (Oracle/mysql), nosql dbs (DynamoDB, Twitter’s Manhattan-Db).  Java, Python, Scala, C/C++. Memcached, Redis. Hadoop, S3. Scalding. AWS / Kubernetes / Mesos based deployment environments.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Amazon SageMaker Data Processing - Data Connectivity / Federation.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Streaming compute platform team based on Apache Flink. No-code managed service for data scientists to populate the feature store (for fraud detection/real time ride incentives etc) with time aggregations on event streams. Technologies: AWS/EC2/Kinesis, Kubernetes, Java, Python etc.

Asynchronous payment transactions auditing and reconciliation framework to improve payment transactions reliability. Technologies: Python, DynamoDB, JobScheduler.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco
Traffic Team which was responsible for the tier-0 services including Twitter-Front-End (router for Twitter's micro-services), reverse proxy, authentication-service, rate-limiter and Wily Name Service (Service Discovery). 

Data Products Team which was responsible for the twitter firehose (Streaming API). Created Access Control Service (RBAC model) to enable private APIs.

### Architect @ Salesforce.com
Jan 2007 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, CA, USA
Tech lead and Architect in the platform API team. Contributions: REST/SOAP/Bulk API stacks. Envisioned and implemented the Streaming API. Key enhancements to the Salesforce Object Query Language (SOQL). Implemented rate limiting, authentication and access control for the APIs.

### Senior Software Engineer @ BEA Systems
Jan 1999 – Jan 2007 | San Francisco, CA
WebLogic Server J2EE developement team. (1999-2005)
WebLogic SIP Server development team. (2005-2007)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Paccar Inc
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Seattle, WA
"Frame-Design" product for processing design orders. EJB, RMI on WebLogic Server 3.x/4.x, Oracle etc.

### Software Engineer @ Animation Science
Jan 1998 – Jan 1998 | Sunnyvale, CA
“Kinema-way" animation product presentation layer (Java).

### Software Engineer @ Computervision Corp (acquired by Parametric Technology Corp)
Jan 1996 – Jan 1998
Development of the Optegra Workflow product (C, C++, Neuron Data) and Windchill product (Java).

### Software Engineer @ Fujitsu ICIM (a.k.a. Fujitsu ICIL)
Jan 1994 – Jan 1996
OPAS (“Open Patient Administration System”) for government and health care division of UK. Oracle, Tuxedo, Uniface etc.


## Education
### MS
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

### MS
Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vinodmehra

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Last updated: 2026-04-12