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Suramya Mukesh

San Francisco,CA

Summary

I am a dynamic, results-oriented Software Developer with over a decade of experience scaling complex systems, designing and building mission-critical services for companies with millions of users, and working well with stakeholders delivering measurable business value.
I have worked for companies at all stages, including Fortune 500 companies to the founding team of early startups.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Staff Software Engineer

TaxBit
02.2023 - 07.2023
  • Designed and built an event-driven system that tracked a transaction's journey from ingestion to tax calculations in the Taxbit eco-system. Deployed and scaled the system to handle 50000 writes per second. Mentored three engineers to complete the service from design to deployment in 3 months.
  • Designed the automated curing service, that takes transaction missing important information needed for tax calculations and populates the information automatically.

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
07.2020 - 02.2023
  • Designed and developed the payment method eligibility framework for Amazon Advertising. Amazon Advertising allows premium advertisers to get access to payment methods that enable them to have a higher credit limit and more time to pay. The service reduced 48 work days across 6 different teams, reduced the launch time of international locations by 75%, increased adoption of premium payment
    methods by 25% and reduced fraud by 2.5%.
  • Optimized the current payment framework to reduce payment execution time from 4 hours to 10 minutes.
  • Designed and developed the refund functionality for the new Billing As A Service system. The system acts as a billing service for all businesses on Amazon.

Backend Server Engineer

Postmates Inc
07.2018 - 12.2019
  • Designed and developed the ordering system service, replacing the current monolith's functionality. Scaled it to service more than half a million merchants and millions of orders per month.
  • Worked on scaling the incentives service, added functionality to handle
    different incentives, and made the system SOX compliant.
  • Built background check functionality for new onboarding fleet members, which reduced time for onboarding from a week to 6 hours for new fleet members.

Software Engineer

Inkling
11.2016 - 05.2018

• Designed and developed a real-time streaming analytics pipeline to provide insights on user actions.
• Designed chat application features for a new chat system product used by retail customers.
• Scaled the Inkling Knowledge platform to handle a 100x increase in traffic and made it GDPR-compliant for European customers.

Software Engineer and Consultant

Various Startups
10.2010 - 09.2016

• Architected data platforms and built crawl infrastructures for B2B startups. Built engineering teams for startups and hired the first few engineers for the teams.
• Managed a team of 18 developers working on content discovery infrastructure. Reduced operational costs by 75% while increasing the number of content sources by 60%. Developed search and content discovery infrastructure, increasing click-through rates by 50%.
• Companies include Simply Hired, MyParichay, Synup, Goodbox

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Visweshwariah Technological University
Bangalore, KA, IND

Skills

Focus: Backend Systems and Infrastructure

Languages: Python, Java, Javascript, Typescript, Go

Software Technologies: Elasticsearch, Redshift, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Lucene, Amazon RedShift, Hadoop, Hive,
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AWS Lambda, MySql, AWS Kinesis, AWS Fargate, Firebase, Nodejs, Docker, Kibana, Datadog, DynamoDB, Terraform, AWS CDK, AWS Step Functions, Kubernetes

Timeline

Staff Software Engineer

TaxBit
02.2023 - 07.2023

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
07.2020 - 02.2023

Backend Server Engineer

Postmates Inc
07.2018 - 12.2019

Software Engineer

Inkling
11.2016 - 05.2018

Software Engineer and Consultant

Various Startups
10.2010 - 09.2016

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Southern California

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Visweshwariah Technological University
Suramya Mukesh