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Staff Software Engineer & Tech lead for Service Discovery @Meta (in Core Infrastructure)

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Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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Amazon

Software Development and Architecture for Ring. 
- Owning multiple critical cloud-based services that help customers protect their homes and control them from their phones with devices such as video doorbells, home security cameras or alarm systems.
- Transitioning these services into modern architectures and Amazon's ecosystem after Ring's acquisition

Software development and architecture for Amazon Retail.
- I designed and led the implementation of a scalable service to expand the AddToCart feature on the Search page to 90% of the Search Traffic
- I led multiple iterations of expansion of AddToCart feature in Search page, amounting to over $1bn yearly revenue
- I was part of the design review group of the large InTech organization, contributing to technical designs from any team in the org

Software development and architecture for Amazon retail

- Designed and built a new page template coordinating with 3 partner teams,
integrating in 2 services and managing our own infrastructure.
- Designed and led an iteration with small and CX changes of a 1M daily impressions layout toggle
- Implemented read use case and GDPR compliance for new service supporting high requests/s (20k avg, 45k max)
- Unblocked a project getting wrong business data for 1 month caused by a bug in network retries in another service
- Reduced with an in-memory cache the backend latency of a 1-column mobile layout for hardlines from +2ms to -13ms
- Wrote a postmortem on the importance of finding/asking for clear API specifications of APIs you consume

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