Pooja Thakur *****.**.******@*****.***
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/pooja-thakur/b0/a03/88b
Software Engineer at Amazon.com, worked at Cerner Corporation, graduated from Arizona State University; passionate about solving business and customer problems and launching new products. EXPERIENCE
Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA May 2019 – present
• Created roadmaps, designed and launched a system to automate the generation and end to end support of Merch Cards which are placed in front of books and other products in Amazon physical stores formats like Book Stores, 4- Star stores etc. These cards display product level detail like configurations, colors etc. I designed new templates using Apache FOP library and modified existing Review card systems databases and workflow components using Java and MySQL. Worked with store ops and store managers for Card/ Tag replacements and displays.
• Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs) are used to display current prices in stores so that the use of paper labels can be discarded. I added support for new store formats to be launched in USA and other marketplaces. I optimized our system using metrics to reduce redundant and unnecessary calls to downstream services by changing AWS Step Function Workflows which also helped us increase updates to our vendors. Collaborated with engineering, QA and store ops team in daily scrums after writing user stories, acceptance criteria for execution. Software Development Engineer, Amazon.com, Tempe, AZ March 2017 – May 2019
• I designed, developed and maintained software which helped 3P Sellers create their brand and sell products on Amazon.com. This involved delivering a Fee Automation system to charge and waive fees for seller Lightning Deals based on different criteria. I worked closely with business leads to modify the system to save manual effort while still giving them a chance to do so by adding a new workflow state. I gathered requirements and data to track metrics that indicated that total losses due to manual fees were close to 6 million dollars and it took 5 clicks per 1000 deals to charge and 5 clicks per deal to waive the fee before my change.
• Migrated API of the service we use for Seller Promotions and led the restructure of more than 20 different types of promotions. Designed and released these incrementally to allow clients to create, edit, view and delete promotions using the new API while not affecting their experience in the old API. Led sprint planning meetings and daily stand up meetings for 3 other engineers to enable work to be done on a code base unmaintained for 4 years.
• Designed auditing and logging for entities changed when calling APIs in our Rules Engine using thread pools in Java code, Dynamo DB for storage and Elastic search for retrieval. Also automated infrastructure for the project using Cloud Formation and other Native AWS resources and tools. Software Development Engineer, Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO July 2016-March 2017
• Developed an application to assist in onboarding of new employees by sending emails to managers looking to hire, which was based on Model View Presenter pattern.
• Generated emails to be sent using Apache Velocity to incorporate various templates, and designed API’s for different consumers. Connected backend to frontend and tested it by applying Factory Pattern and using dependency injection and Mockito’s argument captors.
QA Product Application Intern at CME Group Inc., Chicago, IL May 2015-August 2015
• Developed a single sign-on security framework to automate tests for a user profile service that integrates with other products and provides a common platform for authorization and authentication, wrote automation tests in Behavior Driven Development style for the system.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Programming Languages and Technologies: Java, Python, REST, SOAP, Maven, Selenium, Cucumber, HTML5, CSS, XML, Apache Velocity Engine, Junit, Native AWS- EC2, ECS, SNS, SQS, Dynamo DB, RDS
• Databases and Tools: MySQL, DynamoDB, S3, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Microsoft Visual Studio, GitHub, MySQL Workbench, Jenkins, Crucible, Jira, Git
• Trainings and Courses: Completed the AWS PMT Training, Working with Tech Partners and Online Product Management Training
EDUCATION
Masters in Computer Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona GPA: 3.36/4.0 May 2016 Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science, RGTU, India GPA: 7.68/10.0 June 2014 ACADEMIC PROJECTS in ASU
Information Retrieval System- Arizona State University
• Used Lucene API for few selected functions such as indexing of documents, finding query word frequencies in a document, getting total number of documents, and fetching all documents in which query word exists were.
• Developed an information retrieval system to get 10 most relevant results for a search query from a corpus of 25054 documents using various vector similarity techniques such as TF-IDF algorithm, Authority/Hubs technique, Page Rank and K-Means clustering to compare and analyze the results accuracy. Yelp Crawler- Arizona State University
• Crawled about 70,000 nodes on Yelp using Python to extract and analyze important data and features.
• Created a social network graph to understand relationships between different users and computed PageRank, Eigenvector centrality, Degree centrality, average path length, degree distribution, and clustering coefficients
• Simulated a random graph model, small - world model and preferential attachment model with same number of nodes and edges to compare them with crawled data graph
Movie Recommendation System
• Developed movie recommendation system that will recommend users movies that they might be interested in.
• K-Means clustering used first to find most similar/dissimilar users, then Collaborative Filtering Technique employed to calculate movie ratings for the missing ones. Used Java, Hibernate, and MySQL for the same. Service Oriented Application using Web Services
• Developed an Online Movie Ticketing web application using SOAP and RESTful services, which included registration, login, account management and utilizing a web service for locating the nearest movie theatres.
• Implemented session management, cookies, DLL libraries, caching, Forms Security, and User Control.