Shivam Agarwal

About Shivam Agarwal

Converting Ideas into products. Throw some real life customer pain points at me and we can brainstorm together on the possible solutions.I Love solving challenging problems at scale. I am a Software Engineer with work experience in Python, Java, C++, Go along with hands on experience in NodeJs, Erlang, Tickle and have also played around with some pure functional programming languages like Haskell. I am a Generalist Software Engineer with experience in developing ultra critical, low latency solutions (Algorithmic Trading ). Currently developing highly available and scalable solutions in Golang. I enjoy ambiguous problems and have a bias towards action. Good at understanding business requirements and developing technology agnostic solutions.Passionate about building next generation distributed systems.Let us brainstorm if you have some really challenging problems that we can solve together.Reach out to me at s••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Amazon

   Jan 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Spearheaded multi-pronged architectural overhaul to improve Prime Video’s global organic discoverability across 160+ countries; led 10+ SDEs across Prime Video and Amazon orgs.• Designed and delivered Tier-1, multi-region metadata service powering dynamic title, description, canonical URLs, and structured data for all Prime Video web pages.• Restructured sitemap and crawl architecture: onboarded missing page types, eliminated duplicate/low-value URLs, implemented large-scale validation workflows, and optimized crawl budget allocation.• Removed geo-restriction rendering limitations (IP-based rendering to territory-aware URLs), unblocked search engine and AI bots, consolidated canonical URLs, and corrected broken redirect chains impacting indexation.• Implemented asynchronous metadata generation backed by DynamoDB Global Tables with conditional writes to mitigate thundering herd and hot partition risks during high-traffic launches.• Contributed to 550M+ annual increase in Google Search referrals ( 40% YoY growth) through coordinated platform, architectural, and discoverability improvements.• Led cross-team design reviews, established SEO guardrails for feature teams, and contributed to hiring via system design and coding interviews.

Education

• St Conrads' Inter College , Agra

  High School

  2003 — 2011

• JSS Academy Of Technical Education Noida

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science

  2013 — 2017

Skills

• Css
• Bing Search Api
• Algorithms
• Celery
• C++
• Git
• Embedded C
• Sqlite
• Redis
• Web Scraping
• Dropbox Api
• Php
• Java
• Scrapy
• Python
• Bootstrap
• Solid Principles
• Django Rest Framework
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Angularjs
• Software Design Patterns
• Web Crawling
• Sql
• Bitbucket
• Mongodb
• Google Drive Api
• Google Search Api
• Github
• Facebook Api
• Instagram Api
• C
• Programming
• Heroku
• Django
• Javascript
• Postgresql
• Scikit-Learn
• Html
• Websockets
• Ajax