Kishan Maurya
Seattle
Summary
Senior Software Development Engineer with 7+ years at Amazon, experienced in large-scale payment systems, distributed architectures, and cross-platform integrations. Led the modernization of Amazon’s payments customer authentication, payments accounting handling multi-billion dollars in transactions. Demonstrated growth from intern to L6 Senior SDE, with strong sense of project ownership and technical leadership across multiple business teams.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Software Development Engineer
Amazon
12.2023 - Current
- Leading design and development initiatives for the Post Order Payment Experience (POPX) for Amazon. And collaborating with cross-functional teams to define a three-year plan for the POPX.
- Leading generative AI experiments to enhance payment acceptance, developer productivity, and operational cost reduction in the POPX domain.
- Architected a decoupled accounting system processing multi-billion dollars in GMS across digital businesses such as Kindle, Prime, Prime Video, etc. And reduced payment method launch time by 46% (13 weeks to 7 weeks).
- Mentoring junior developers, fostering skill development, and promoting best practices in software design and engineering.
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
09.2021 - 11.2023
- Led the PayStation Accounting Authority (PSAA) platform design, development, and integration, enabling ASC-606 compliance for Amazon retail and external payments businesses.
- Led the design and development for integration with the external Ptech partner to enable payment processing for Amazon's physical stores in the EU region.
- Mentored junior developers, fostering skill development, and promoting best practices in software design and engineering.
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
07.2020 - 08.2021
- Designed and developed a customer authentication feature for the Amazon payments platform and onboarded businesses such as Retail, Prime Video, Kindle, etc.
- Designed and developed a data pipeline and dashboards for the customer authentication feature to measure authentication performance and identify potential risks.
- Designed and developed fallback levers in checkout and redrive levers for post-checkout to handle customer authentication failures, improve the payment experience, and protect business monetary traffic.
Software Development Engineer I
Amazon
06.2018 - 06.2020
- Designed and developed a payments API for the Alexa 'Pay for Gas' project, which is used by Amazon customers via Alexa voice technology.
- Developed a merchant details validation framework for the Amazon Pay merchant onboarding platform.
- Drove peak readiness for the Amazon Pay order storage system by designing and executing load tests, securing hardware, creating dashboards, and runbooks.
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon
05.2017 - 07.2017
- Designed and developed an email notification system for the Amazon Pay team to track real-time availability of the Amazon Pay payments API, and broadcast the details in case of any downtime detected.
- Globalized the Amazon Pay external customer-facing API dashboard by updating the stack to support multiple languages and time zones.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur
Jamshedpur, India05-2018
Skills
- Technical Skills: Microservices Architecture, AWS services, Generative AI agents, Payments authentication, execution and accounting
- Leadership: Technical Architecture, Cross-functional Collaboration, System Integration, Performance Optimization, Team Mentoring, Project Management
Timeline
Senior Software Development Engineer
Amazon
12.2023 - Current
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
09.2021 - 11.2023
Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
07.2020 - 08.2021
Software Development Engineer I
Amazon
06.2018 - 06.2020
Software Development Engineer Intern
Amazon
05.2017 - 07.2017
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur