Yashi Gupta

SDE at Amazon | Designing Systems at Scale

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

I build manufacturing software at Amazon, from the ground up on a fully native AWS stack. It's my second chapter here. The first: 5 years scaling Your Orders and Order Details, pages that handle 110% of Amazon.com homepage traffic during Prime Day. I cut page loads 30%, migrated load balancing to AWS ALB (3x scale, 40% less ops overhead), and designed federation that lets 50+ teams deploy independently. Writing the code was never the hard part. The engineering is in judging what ships. Where it breaks. Who it locks out. What it silently drops. Whether it earns trust in front of real users. That's what I build for, and what I write about here: how engineers stay valuable in the AI era. How systems work, how they break, how to interview, how to reboot career. Core skills: TypeScript, Java, Python, AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, Step Functions, CDK), distributed systems, event-driven architecture.

Experience

  • Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
    Jul 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 4 mos

    Powering some of the most visited pages on Amazon.com - Your Orders and Order Details. Working fullstack to delight millions of customers everyday.

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant at Stony Brook University
    Jan 2021 - May 2021 · 5 mos

    Teaching Assistant for the course Data Structures and Algorithms.

  • Graduate Research Assistant at Exascal Lab, Stony Brook University
    May 2020 - Jan 2021 · 9 mos

  • Product Engineer at SLK
    Jul 2017 - Jan 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

    1. RAID (Robotic Automation & Intelligence Discovery) - Engineered Python RESTful APIs for AI-powered intelligent OCR components in RAID. - Feature owner of Searchable PDF Generator, Document Signature Detector, Table Extractor & Document Category Classifier AIaaS microservices (AI as a service). - Attained 96% overall accuracy in image classification task and 88% in text classification using Deep Transfer Learning (Inception-v3 & Universal Sentence Encoder). 2. Build & Release Automation - Reduced developer efforts by 80% by setting up Gitlab CI/CD pipeline to boost SLK’s product delivery. - Designed YAML script that automated the build and deployment stages with zero manual intervention. 3. Cassandra DB Manager & Web UI - Created a stand-alone web app for the development & production support teams to execute a database query, view the schema, & explore the Cassandra DB right from the browser using AngularJS & Node.js. 4. Chatbot for smart assistance & Functional Specification Document (FSD) Generator - Built Retrieval Based Chatbot for assisting users on a software product using NLP libraries. - Worked extensively on Data Science algorithms like LDA, NMF, and k-means Clustering. - For FSD generator topics were extracted with 70% efficiency. After generating topics, using clustering and summarization, a description of each topic was generated.

  • Research And Development Intern at Lucideus
    Dec 2015 · 1 mo

    Mumbai Metropolitan Region