ROHAN ATHAVALE
Union City,CA
Summary
Passionate about leveraging technology to create meaningful change through the development of software solutions that improve lives. Possesses a solid foundation in software engineering and a commitment to continuous learning, thriving on crafting innovative and scalable solutions that address real-world challenges. Expertise in translating complex problems into effective strategies ensures impactful results in every project. Eager to contribute to forward-thinking teams that prioritize innovation and positive societal impact.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
02.2024 - Current
- Reduced advertiser spend by ~27% by driving a cross-org platform initiative spanning 10+ engineers across multiple teams, enabling advertisers to share groups across accounts; solution was adopted and reused by multiple downstream orgs.
- Improved end-to-end impression latency by ~20% by leading a redesign of the team's core impression processing architecture, supporting ~100K TPS via a Flink-based streaming pipeline consuming from Kinesis.
- Enabled high-accuracy, real-time bidding decisions at scale by leading development of a shared frequency outcome fetching library serving ~1M TPS, leveraging Redis-backed caching, async NIO, and Vert.x event loops for fully non-blocking execution.
- Lowered operational costs and long-term maintenance overhead by leading multiple operational excellence initiatives, simplifying system design, reducing on-call burden, and improving overall service reliability.
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
12.2020 - 01.2024
- Drove adoption of a new deals experience to ~50K MAU by leading the V1 launch of deals on Alexa Shopping List as a full stack owner.
- Led the design and development effort to build a distributed system that provides customers the ability to clip deals at any store with the system currently handling ~15K clippings per week.
- Expanded deal inventory by 100%+ by leading the integration of Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods deals, increasing customer choice and engagement.
- Delivered a zero-incident launch by owning security reviews, operational readiness, and launch gating, achieving 98%+ operational excellence.
- Accelerated team productivity and decision-making by mentoring 4 engineers, providing technical guidance, design reviews, and onboarding support.
- Alexa Shopping List
B2B Software Development Engineer I
Amazon.com
08.2019 - 11.2020
- Increased B2B Easy Ship revenue by ~10% by contributing to the launch of multi-package fulfillment, improving seller shipping flexibility.
- Improved seller fulfillment reliability by owning backend services responsible for package scheduling, designing and implementing APIs using Java and Spring.
- Reduced checkout friction and improved conversion by building a tax registration autofill feature via integrations with government APIs.
- Reduced customer abuse by ~10K accounts WoW by leading the implementation of mobile number verification in the IN B2B checkout flow.
Software Engineering Intern
Automation Anywhere
06.2018 - 05.2019
- Increased team productivity by ~70% by scaling the bot store from 180 to 300+ RPA bots, accelerating enterprise automation adoption.
- Automated high-volume enterprise workflows by building RPA bots in C# and exposing functionality via REST APIs.
- Contributed to early Digital Worker platform development, helping automate end-to-end task sequences across organizations.
Education
Master of Science - Software Engineering
San Jose State University
05.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Engineering
M.S. University of Baroda
05.2015
Skills
- Java
- Python
- C#
- C
- C
- HTML5
- CSS3
- Reactjs
- JavaScript
- Typescript
- Nodejs
- Spring
- React Native
- Redux
- Expressjs
- AJAX
- Kafka
- REST
- RPC
- MySQL
- Memcached
- MongoDB
- DynamoDB
- Redis
- AWS services like SQS
- SNS
- ECS with Fargate
- Lambda
- S3
- Agile
- Scrum
Timeline
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
02.2024 - Current
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
12.2020 - 01.2024
B2B Software Development Engineer I
Amazon.com
08.2019 - 11.2020
Software Engineering Intern
Automation Anywhere
06.2018 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Engineering
M.S. University of Baroda
Master of Science - Software Engineering
San Jose State University