Aishwarya Hanumanth Rao

About Aishwarya Hanumanth Rao

Software Development Engineer II with 5.5+ years at Amazon, working on large-scale distributed systems with a focus on traffic routing services in Java on AWS. Experience building low-latency, high-throughput systems and driving adoption across 25K+ services, with a strong focus on system design, performance optimization, and cross-team collaboration.Technical skillsLanguages: Java, PythonAWS: EC2, DynamoDB, S3, Route 53, CloudWatch, Lambda, Step Functions, CDK, API GatewayTesting & Reliability: Load testing, fault injection, chaos testingDev Tools: CI/CD, GitAI Tools: Kiro, Cline, Amazon Q (used for spec-driven development, debugging, and code generation)Operating Systems: Linux, macOSDomains:Distributed Systems, Computer Networking.

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer 2

   Amazon

   Oct 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Led cross-team integration with Traffic Engineering to enable CDK-based onboarding for Local Region Affinity, reducing onboarding time from approximately 2 days to less than 1 hour (~95% reduction), and accelerating adoption across 25K+ services by managing implementation and delegating well-scoped tasks to other engineers effectively- Owned and led end-to-end design and delivery of Organizational Context Filters, including a decoupled architecture for onboarding and routing logic, enabling traffic isolation for 4+ major organizations (Prime Video, Payments, Pricing, ATS), supporting migrations across 1K+ services and handling ~30M requests/min (Prime Video traffic)- Drove adoption across multiple organizations and large-scale onboarding, partnering with engineering and product teams to productionize routing solutions and establishing standardized release and onboarding processes (SOPs, benchmarking, testing frameworks), enabling 4+ subsequent feature rollouts and reducing onboarding time from days to hours- Built cohort-based routing to segment traffic across dimensions like marketplace, device traffic, and test traffic, enabling controlled rollouts and adopted by 200+ services across 2+ organizations.Improved system performance by introducing lazy-loading for context extraction, reducing latency by ~50%, and removing failure points in request paths across routing systems running on millions of hosts- Mentored interns and engineers, contributing to hiring, conducting interviews, and supporting new hires\' onboarding to facilitate team growth and development.

Education

• Ramaiah Institute Of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information Science

  2013 — 2017

• University of Southern California

  Master of Science in Computer Science

  2018 — 2020

• Mount Carmel College, Bangalore

  Pre University, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Electronics

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• C
• C++
• Java
• Windows
• Microsoft Excel
• Programming
• Microsoft Word
• Sql
• Mysql
• Powerpoint
• Linux
• Html
• Android Studio
• Php
• Javascript
• Unix
• Python
• Microsoft Powerpoint