Jay Thakker
Jersey City
Summary
Seasoned Senior Software Engineer with broad experience in full-stack development and cloud computing. Possess strong skills in strategic planning, team leadership, and complex problem-solving. Significant contributions made to previous work include improving system efficiency, streamlining processes, and implementing innovative software solutions.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Amazon
New York
02.2024 - Current
- Re-architected Ads supply pipeline, reducing infrastructure costs by 50% and latency by 20%.
- Wrote strategy documents to align VP leadership with new architectural model.
- Unified rendering and metadata pipelines, eliminating duplicate caches across four organizations.
- Introduced latency buffers, improving accuracy of machine learning models for ad delivery.
- Pivoted development to AI-first strategy, resulting in over 50% of code generated by AI.
Senior Software Engineer
Amazon
Seattle
01.2021 - 01.2024
- Designed Tier-1 payment system via hosted plugin platform processing over $10 billion annually.
- Developed strategy to align VP leadership with new system adoption and proposed three-year roadmap.
- Supported over 400 partners across more than 10 organizations and 20 teams, isolating failures effectively.
- Collaborated with security engineers to create external integration strategy for secure, compliant payment systems.
Software Engineer
Amazon
Bangalore
03.2018 - 12.2020
- Collaborated with product managers, UX/UI designers, and organization leaders to create a global asset localization application.
- Optimized storage costs by 80% through image runtime edge stitching, and CDN-based storage.
- Developed five microservices, including AWS SWF orchestrator for dynamic data generation and a PostgreSQL interfacing service.
- Created search optimization service leveraging Elastic Search via FIQL queries to enhance data retrieval.
- Integrated Photoshop to streamline designer workflows for efficient creative data management with backend application.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
VJTI
Mumbai, India01.2018
Skills
- Distributed systems
- Microservices
- Low-latency
- Highthroughput
- Tier-1 services
- AWS
- Spring
- Ruby on Rails
- SQL
- NoSQL
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript
- Nodejs
- React
- C
- Architecture strategy
- Technical vision
- Mentoring
- Cross-team collaboration
Websites
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Amazon
02.2024 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Amazon
01.2021 - 01.2024
Software Engineer
Amazon
03.2018 - 12.2020
B.Tech - Computer Science
VJTI