Prajakta Khandve
Sunnyvale
Summary
Passionate and diligent SDE with 5 years of experience, quick to learn new technologies, and persistent in crafting robust solutions through algorithmic prowess for tackling challenging problems.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Developer Engineer II
Amazon Web Services
Sunnyvale
01.2022 - Current
- Architected and shipped distributed EC2 live migration system enabling automatic, reboot-less instance relocation on Dedicated Hosts during hardware failures; eliminated customer downtime (previously 10+ min), reduced degradation resolution from 28 days to 24 hours (97% improvement)
- Drove cross-functional alignment with 6 AWS service teams (EC2 Placement, Networking, Dedicated Hosts, License Migration) to define migration eligibility criteria and rollback mechanisms for global rollout
- Initiated cross-AWS notification campaign alerting S3, ElastiCache, and DynamoDB teams of upcoming instance retirements; secured CEO-2 level approvals and prevented customer-impacting terminations
- Designed automated sweeper system recovering 500+ degraded hosts from EC2 fleet inventory, reducing unsellable dwell time and improving hardware utilization
- On-call lead for EC2 Recovery Systems serving 2M+ instances; resolved 700+ escalations and reduced ticket volume 10% through proactive automation
- Led security modernization migrating 3 microservices from long-term IAM credentials to short-term IAM Roles, eliminating 1,200 permanent credentials organization-wide
- Implemented infrastructure optimizations achieving 56% cost reduction while maintaining SLA commitments; automated decommissioning of 15,000+ EC2 Classic instances
- Authored 40 design documents, reviewed 90+; contributed 350 code changes, reviewed 550+
- Mentored intern and junior engineer on system design, design documentation, metrics analysis, and on-call incident response
Cisco
Software Engineer
Sunnyvale
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Built orchestration editor enabling network engineers to create recovery workflows via drag-and-drop flowcharts, reducing workflow creation time from manual coding to visual configuration
- Implemented validation layer and automated YAML conversion pipeline, ensuring error-free execution of network recovery procedures
- Improved scalability and troubleshooting capabilities of Network Insights App, an on-premise network recovery platform used by enterprise customers
Technology Analyst
Barclays
Pune
07.2017 - 06.2019
- Managed 20,000+ database data warehouse; built autonomous alerting system in Java/SQL preventing production incidents and automated ETL pipelines using Teradata—awarded SPOT recognition for real-time dashboard innovation
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA05-2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Vishwakarma Institue of Technology
Pune05-2017
Skills
Languages: Python, Java, Ruby, SQL, Bash
Backend & Frameworks: REST APIs, Microservices Architecture, Spring/SpringBoot (if applicable)
AWS Services: EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, IAM, RDS, Redshift, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CDK, VPC
Databases: DynamoDB (NoSQL), MySQL, Oracle, Teradata, PostgreSQL
Data & Analytics: ETL Pipelines, Data Modeling, IBM Cognos, Tableau
Systems & Infrastructure: Distributed Systems, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code
AI & Automation: Cline, AI-assisted development tools, Workflow automation
Practices: System Design, Technical Documentation, On-call Operations, Agile/Scrum
Timeline
Software Developer Engineer II
Amazon Web Services
01.2022 - Current
Cisco
Software Engineer
06.2021 - 01.2022
Technology Analyst
Barclays
07.2017 - 06.2019
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of Southern California
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Vishwakarma Institue of Technology