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Rishabh Anand

Summary

Backend Software Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems in AWS and Kubernetes, with a focus on automation, developer productivity, and platform reliability. Formerly at Capital One and AWS.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineer

Capital One
09.2021 - Current
  • Developed and maintained an AWS-hosted big data platform supporting 60+ unique custom customer actions (e.g., credit limit changes, account balance updates, targeted marketing).
  • Partnered with cross-functional teams to onboard new workflows, ensuring seamless integration with business needs.
  • Led migration from a Kubernetes-based architecture to a fully serverless solution using AWS Glue, Lambda, SQS, and Step Functions, reducing operational overhead by 80%.
  • Implemented resilient retry and recovery mechanisms for failed requests, cutting failure rates by 99% and saving hundreds of developer hours.
  • Designed automation tooling to monitor and recover failed workflows, significantly improving system reliability.
  • Mentored engineers via an internal AWS training course, promoting best practices in infrastructure and automation.

Software Engineer (L4)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
07.2020 - 08.2021
  • Built and maintained backend services for an internal platform used to schedule and execute hardware tests on AWS servers.
  • Developed APIs to securely handle client-submitted test requests, improving access control and overall security of service.
  • Automated the enrichment of hardware failure tickets with contextual data and relevant documentation, cutting investigation time by multiple days per ticket.
  • Created intelligent routing logic to direct failure tickets to the most appropriate resolution teams, reducing manual triage time by 3-4 hours per case.
  • Provided regular on-call support, quickly resolving issues and maintaining platform uptime across distributed systems.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Virginia Tech
08.2018 - 05.2020
  • Mentored 100+ students per term as. a TA for Python - led labs, reviewed, code, and coached on clean coding and problem solving

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA
05.2020

Skills

  • Python
  • Java
  • C
  • Scala
  • Swift
  • Nodejs
  • Ruby
  • PostgreSQL
  • DynamoDB
  • MongoDB
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Kafka
  • Spark
  • Databricks

Certification

AWS Developer Associate

Timeline

Software Engineer

Capital One
09.2021 - Current

Software Engineer (L4)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
07.2020 - 08.2021

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

Virginia Tech
08.2018 - 05.2020

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Virginia Tech

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