Apnav Poptani

About Apnav Poptani

I\'m a software engineer who loves building systems that scale and making sure they stay reliable, observable, and clean long after launch. With 7+ years of experience across compliance tech, navigation infrastructure, and full-stack development, I\'ve had the privilege of working on systems that touch hundreds of millions of Amazon customers every day.At Amazon, I\'ve tackled everything from real-time personalization pipelines and sanctions screening platforms to authentication migrations for tier-1 services handling billions of monthly requests. I care as much about the code I leave behind as the features I ship whether that\'s eliminating dead code, standardizing conventions across teams, or mentoring the next engineer in the room.Outside of the day-to-day, I\'m energized by hard problems, cross-functional collaboration, and the constant evolution of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture.Always happy to connect with curious minds building things that matter.

Experience

1. Software Developer Enginner Ii

   Amazon

   Jul 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Architected self-service ranking debugger replacing manual script investigations with async job processing, access control, and audit logging. • Built personalization pipeline processing daily clickstream data for AI/ML model training and real-time Datastore serving of mobile navigation tabs, measuring impact across North America. • Identified legacy monitoring gaps as the root cause of slow incident response and built real-time CloudWatch dashboards for 3 backend services across 4 regions, upgrading observability to 1-second resolution and -%. • Designed a content validation framework using Java and React with 6 pluggable validator types, duplicate detection, and schema enforcement surfacing real-time validation errors at submission to catch issues pre-publish, eliminating manual review bottlenecks for partner teams. • Built an engineering productivity tool with historical Q&A matching and async deflection logic to triage office hour requests,%: • Designed and implemented cross-marketplace sanctions screening with parent/child account identity resolution and dual-key caching for sanctions list lookups, expanding compliance to 6 new geographies and enabling regulatory launches. • Led cross-team onboarding South Africa marketplace as technical point of contact, documented end-to-end system flows, facilitated SME design sessions, and - by leveraging existing screening workflows. • Built API delivering daily seller data snapshots to ML teams, powering seller risk score prediction across compliance systems.

Education

• Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science and Engineering

  2012 — 2016

• University of North Carolina at Charlotte

  Masters of science, Computer Science