Lakshya Agarwal

SDE 2 @Amazon | BITS Pilani

Rajasthan, India

About

Experience

  • Amazon (4 yrs 7 mos)
    • Software Development Engineer 2
      Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

      1. Working on a offering(not publicly announced yet) for 3P app developers to make customers’ life easier using Amazon FTV with extensibility to other Amazon devices. 2. Learning agentic AI and helping team to build a version of same to reduce team operational load. 3. Working on supporting enterprise use cases for Amazon Devices Business.

    • Software Development Engineer
      Jul 2022 - Apr 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      1. Migrated multiple services from internal infrastructure to public AWS with the help of CDK(using code as infrastructure) 2. Successfully scaled multiple tier-1 services for Q4 peak load including one from 700k to 1.5MM TPS(transactions per second) 3. Developed service agnostic proxy system to migrate more than 15 service across teams from proprietary authorisation and authentication mechanism to OAuth 2.0 based one saving more than $10k/month. 4. Increased avg CPU utilization for multiple tier-1 services from 18% to 40%, saving more than $100k/month. 5. Designed forecast management system tool to handle forecast provided by 100’s of client, push back and reduce over-scaling during Q4 peak. 6. Designed solution to support device hardware authorisation for software based virtual device having TEE absent. 7. Designed solution to identify ownership and stale data for tier-1 services storing device type, device and device account(unique identification for a customer and device) level metadata.

    • Software Development Intern
      Jan 2022 - Jun 2022 · 6 mos

  • Summer Intern at Akamai Technologies
    May 2021 - Jul 2021 · 3 mos

    o Automated computation of effective capacity of servers with time less than 30 seconds. o Retrieved and processed data from proprietory databases by flask APIs. o Tabular and graphical representation of results obtained from reactJS AJAX calls to REST APIs. o Error handling and input santisation at both frontend and backend o Coded appropriate test cases, log file generation, configurations and retry instances at backend

  • NSS, BITS-Pilani (2 yrs 11 mos)
    • Coordinator
      Apr 2019 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

      o Supervised a team of over 80 volunteers o Redesigned Student Selection process to include more number of academically needy students. o Increased work efficient and use of human hours by extending lecture system

    • Executive Committee Member
      Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      o Prepared Mission and Vision for School Department for the first time o Successfully initiated two new programs for JEE Preparation and English Improvement of students o Introduced concept of Parents-Volunteer Meet o Organized various workshops in alignment with the mission of the department which increased the overall attendance by 5%. o Introduced one-to-one volunteer meet to get to know volunteers’ problems and increase volunteer satisfaction

    • Volunteer
      Aug 2017 - Apr 2018 · 9 mos

  • Physics Association (2 yrs 3 mos)
    • APOGEE Coordinator
      Apr 2019 - Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

      o Initiated to 2 new events, Movie Screening and Meme Competition o Planned to introduce experiments which will engage audience

    • Publicity Coordinator
      Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

      o Successfully conducted Lawless Quiz during APOGEE, technical fest of BITS Pilani with increase of about 50% audience. o Successfully initiated Student Talk Series, giving a platform to students to share their knowledge about particular research areas. o Organized a 2-day workshop on Nano Materials and Nano-composites in collaboration with Makeintern and E-cell, IIT Kharagpur.

  • Summer Intern at AlmaConnect
    May 2019 - Jul 2019 · 3 mos

    Analysed 6 lac+ user profiles & job requirements to introduce broad categories of job roles. Standardised the job titles with 50+ new titles which had an adoption rate of 25% in 8 wks among existing users. Consumed the standardised titles in search & filter module to improve the application rate by 15%.