CHIRANJEEVI VEERNI
Nashville,TN
Summary
Senior Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems at Amazon, Visa, and eBay. Deep expertise in low-latency platforms, pricing & revenue systems, and cloud-native architectures operating at billion-request scale. Proven track record of driving multi-million-dollar impact through system re-architecture, performance optimization, and high-impact product launches.
I’m currently exploring Senior / Principal Engineering opportunities in distributed systems and platform roles.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer (SDE III)
AMAZON
06.2021 - Current
- Amazon Shipping – Revenue Management & Pricing
- Led re-architecture of Amazon Shipping pricing platform, reducing launch cycles for new accessorial charges from ~8 weeks to under 5 days using configuration-driven design.
- Designed sub-millisecond rate vending systems serving billions of requests, directly competing with FedEx and UPS.
- Built dynamic and spot pricing platforms leveraging demand, capacity, and competition signals to improve shipper conversion and profitability.
- Owned redesign of shipper fee adjustment flows, reducing revenue leakage and customer disputes while maintaining operational stability.
- Launched pay-per-pickup service to close operational gaps for low-ADV shippers.
- Developed real-time anomaly detection and simulation tooling used by leadership for scenario planning.
- System owner across critical services: architecture reviews, operational excellence, on-call readiness, dashboards, and alarms.
- Amazon Music Search
- Migrated Elasticsearch 1.7 clusters to Amazon OpenSearch 7.x.
- Decomposed monolith into microservices, reducing blast radius and enabling independent scaling.
- Delivered Alexa-facing APIs supporting voice and visual search.
- Rolled out new entity search capabilities validated through A/B testing.
Staff Software Engineer
VISA
03.2017 - 06.2021
- Architected and led Data Transfer Service (DTS), enabling secure large-scale data movement across Visa.
- Technical lead for team of 5 engineers building microservice orchestration.
- Built Scalable Run automation platform saving significant support engineering effort.
- Owned Tech Deals platform (NodeJs + Angular) including backend and DB design.
- Received multiple Go Beyond awards.
Software Engineer 3
EBAY
08.2013 - 02.2017
- Delivered PayPal-integrated password recovery flow, improving completion from 70% to 82%.
- Led backend development for onboarding systems with enhanced verification.
- Solved major performance bottlenecks using Oracle query optimization.
- Received multiple Spot awards.
Team Lead
NTT Data (Fidelity)
Bengaluru
03.2012 - 07.2013
Senior Software Engineer
Infosys
Bengaluru
01.2009 - 02.2012
Education
B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering
JNTU
VishakhapatnamSkills
- Java, Python, SQL
- Distributed Systems
- Microservices
- Low-latency APIs
- AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS, S3, CloudWatch)
- Docker
- OpenSearch / Elasticsearch
- System Design
- Observability
- Performance Optimization
- Git, IntelliJ, Jira
Hackathon winner.
Built SwaQL, a GenAI-powered natural language analytics assistant, enabling business teams to query revenue datasets without SQL.
Won Amazon Shipping Hackathon (2nd place); tool is now in production, saving ~2 hours per employee per day across Revenue Management.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer (SDE III)
AMAZON
06.2021 - Current
Staff Software Engineer
VISA
03.2017 - 06.2021
Software Engineer 3
EBAY
08.2013 - 02.2017
Team Lead
NTT Data (Fidelity)
03.2012 - 07.2013
Senior Software Engineer
Infosys
01.2009 - 02.2012
B.Tech - Electronics & Communication Engineering
JNTU