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Luka Emrashvili

Luka Emrashvili

New York,NY

Summary

Software Development Engineer II with experience designing and operating large-scale distributed data systems on AWS. Strong background in backend development, data pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and production operations. Proven ability to build reliable, scalable analytics and machine learning workflows in high-throughput environments.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com
New York City, United States
07.2022 - Current
  • Design, develop, and maintain backend systems and distributed data pipelines supporting the Amazon Recommendations Service and analytics platforms.
  • Implement batch and incremental data processing workflows to ingest, transform, and aggregate large-scale datasets stored in Amazon S3.
  • Develop high-performance data processing jobs and services using Java, Scala, and Python, running on AWS distributed compute environments (EMR, EC2, containers).
  • Build and manage cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK and CloudFormation, provisioning compute, storage, IAM, networking, and monitoring resources.
  • Design and operate data ingestion and indexing workflows into OpenSearch, ensuring data consistency, schema compatibility, and query performance.
  • Develop Docker-based containerized workflows to support machine learning training and experimentation pipelines.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot production systems by analyzing logs, metrics, and alarms; resolve job failures, performance bottlenecks, and resource issues.
  • Write unit and integration tests, participate in code reviews, and document system architecture and operational procedures.

Education

Bachelor's of Computer Engineering -

San Diego State University
San Diego, US
05.2022

Bachelor's of Computer Engineering -

San Diego State University Georgia
Tbilisi, Georgia
05.2021

Skills

Languages: Java, Scala, Python, TypeScript
AWS: S3, EMR, EC2, IAM, CloudFormation, OpenSearch
Data & Distributed Systems: Spark, Hadoop, batch and incremental pipelines
Infrastructure & DevOps: AWS CDK, Docker, CI/CD
Monitoring & Ops: CloudWatch, logging, metrics, alarms

Languages

  • English
  • Georgian
  • Russian

Websites

Timeline

Software Development Engineer

Amazon.com
07.2022 - Current

Bachelor's of Computer Engineering -

San Diego State University

Bachelor's of Computer Engineering -

San Diego State University Georgia
Luka Emrashvili