Aditya Kasturi
Kirkland,WA
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience, adept at leading teams on enterprise projects. Skilled in crafting tailored solutions for diverse requirements. Specialized in solution optimization, mobile and cloud technologies, and managing global projects.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
NewStore
05.2019 - Current
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Engineering Team Architect: First hire in the engineering department, instrumental in growing the team from 1 to 40. Played a pivotal role in onboarding, mentoring, leadership and resolving multiple initial challenges during the team expansion.
- Promoted technical leadership to entry-level and junior engineers in complex enterprise system environment.
- **Major Order Injection API Improvement:** "Re-engineered the order injection protocol to manage anticipated high-volume Retailer demands, successfully increasing system capacity by ~20x to handle up to 250 orders per second while maintaining robust control over order creation rates, ensuring platform resilience during peak traffic."
- **Progress in Migrating to HTTP Callbacks & RabbitMQ Deprecation:** "Spearheaded the transition from RabbitMQ to HTTP callbacks, delivering 18 HTTP callback handlers as direct replacements and collaborating with cross-functional teams for seamless migration, fortifying order processing resilience by eliminating dependencies on RabbitMQ."
- Insightful Incident Analysis & Improved Disaster Recovery Strategy: "Analyzed and transformed our disaster recovery approach post a significant AWS outage, transitioning from on-demand restoration to a proactive active/passive setup, positioning the Order Management team to achieve targeted recovery times of 5 minutes for order-related infrastructure and 30 minutes for all other infrastructure."
- Pioneering Enhanced Recovery with 'Phavda': "Championed the rollout of the revamped disaster recovery strategy with the 'phavda' project as a benchmark, effectively deploying AWS infrastructure in an active/passive mode across regions, while also navigating and resolving inter-region connectivity challenges with innovative solutions."
- Strategic Templating & Integration Leadership: "Commandeered the partner ecosystem team to pioneer best practices for integrating flagship retail systems, including Salesforce Commerce, Loyalty, and Shopify. Rolled out 27 advanced Terraform templates on AWS, streamlining the product and service configurations and bolstering the robustness of Newstore's Partner Eco System."
- Innovative Revenue-Boosting Availability Service: "Single-handedly crafted a high-capacity REST API, empowering retailers with real-time availability exports to S3 or JSON responses. This transformative solution directly accelerated Newstore's revenue by a remarkable 15%, while concurrently slashing support cases by a staggering 30% for our three premium customers."
- Evolutionary CI/CD Pipeline Development: "Championed the overhaul of the CI/CD system, transiting from Travis to CircleCI and redefining our architectural blueprint from a monolithic approach to modular CloudFormation service deployments. Instituted rigorous GitHub standards, leading to a threefold repository growth: from 12 in 2020 to a whopping 60 by 2022, marking an exponential enhancement in scalability and collaborative coding."
Contractor - Senior Software Engineer
Blueprint Medicines
08.2018 - 04.2019
- Worked with project managers, developers, quality assurance and customers to resolve technical issues.
- Provided technical support using knowledge of complex technology to solve problems and support new projects.
- Blu-X APP (12/2018- 03/2019): Designed an internal search engine for chemists using ElasticSearch, incorporated a shopping cart for file downloads, and managed authentication with Python and React.
- Patients Dashboard (11/18): Developed a dashboard for drug trial monitoring using Java, Play Framework, and Couch DB.
- Skills: Excelled in back-end development with experience in ElasticSearch, LDAP, and UI using Material UI
Contractor Senior Java Developer
Department Of Public Health And Human Services
01.2018 - 08.2018
- Reviewed code and debugged errors to improve performance.
- Collaborated in team-based, Agile environment to accomplish objectives by deadlines.
- Applied scripting knowledge to supplement Java development.
- Participated in requirements gathering and design development meetings.
- General Licensing & Facilities Application: Transformed a desktop application into a web-based platform using Material UI, integrating RBAC security for role-based access.
- Collaborated with key stakeholders and utilized Java, Rest API, React.js, SQL, and Flexbox for development.
Software Engineer
Wayfair LLC
06.2016 - 12.2017
- Storefront Engineering Browse Team:-Orchestrated and launched A/B tests on both MWeb and Desktop platforms, closely coordinating with design, product, and analytics teams. Independently code refactoring, designed robust traffic monitoring dashboards for keyword, super browse, and category pages.
- Amplified desktop browse page performance by transitioning the legacy base from jQuery to React, achieving a remarkable 28% performance boost.
- Cersei Project: - Innovated an internal tool that pinpoints high-sale events by category, benefiting both the storefront and marketing product teams - 27% of the sales events were directly impacted and used everyday using this tool.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY05.2016
Skills
Python, Go, PHP, Nodejs and Java
Python - Boto3, Moto, Paramiko, Troposphere, AWS CDK, S3, AWS Cloud Ecosystem Java - SpringBoot, Reactjs
Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CircleCi, Keycloak, Auth0, Travis CI, AWS - Compute and Storage, VPC and Route53
Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Cloud Technologies
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
NewStore
05.2019 - Current
Contractor - Senior Software Engineer
Blueprint Medicines
08.2018 - 04.2019
Contractor Senior Java Developer
Department Of Public Health And Human Services
01.2018 - 08.2018
Software Engineer
Wayfair LLC
06.2016 - 12.2017
Master of Science - Computer Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Cooking
Passionate about crafting Indian non-veg dishes and whipping up classic American breakfasts.
Cooking
Passionate about crafting Indian non-veg dishes and whipping up classic American breakfasts.