Ajay Dharmarajula

About Ajay Dharmarajula

I’m a System Development Engineer II at Amazon with 3+ years of experience building tools and infrastructure that improve reliability, automation, and developer velocity. My work spans backend systems, AWS-based service orchestration, and platform optimization. I\'ve owned projects that reduce operational burden, enhance service resilience, and unlock cost savings through automation and system design.Outside of work, I’m a published ML researcher (Springer) and an active finalist in major hackathon challenges like Virtusa Neural Hack and I’ve also contributed to engineering communities as a Smart India Hackathon coordinator, mentoring students on solving real-world problems.I’m passionate about simplifying infra, scaling internal platforms, and building systems that make other engineers more productive.

Experience

1. System Development Engineer

   Amazon

   Jul 2022 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Platform Modernization & Infra Migrations- Led JDK17 and Graviton migration across Kindle systems, enabling 20–30% cost savings and modernized performance- Executed high-scale controller deprecations reducing 50K+ daily request load.Proxy Automation & Anonymity Systems- Built infra for secure transmissions and launched IPManagement tool for 2M+ IPs with sub-minute search using Flask, DynamoDB, EC2- Automated external node builds using Python, YAML, AWS, Internal Amazon tools thus reducing setup from 48 hours to 1 hour.System Design & Capacity Insights- Developed RHEL9 DSL architecture saving ~$3.5K/month- Built Cluster Dashboard using Angular & SpringBoot reducing troubleshooting time from 1 hour to seconds.

Education

• Vardhaman College of Engineering (VCEH)

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

  2018 — 2022

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  10+2, (MATHS & SCIENCE)

  2016 — 2018