Pavan Kumar Kothagorla
- Role
- Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Pavan Kumar Kothagorla
I am a passionate software developer with 7+ years of experience. I have been with Amazon…
Experience
Software Development Engineer 2
Feb 2017 — Present
Enabled magical device setup experience by Designing, Developing and Delivering backend software for FFS : https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/blogs/alexa/device-makers/2020/09/With-Frustration-Free-Setup-Setting-Up-TP-Link-Smart-Home-Plugs-is-as-Simple-as-Plugging-Them-In 2. Designed and implemented Discovery Session API to enable Alexa For Business Skills to report devices deployed to the properties : https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/docs/alexa/alexa-smart-properties/alexa-for-residential-discovery-session-api.html 3. Lead multiple operational excellence initiatives and reduced the high severity TT count by 60% 4. Implemented a novel throttling solution to allow maximum numbers of request from 3P skills to be served without overwhelming the backend systems and brought down the requests rejected due to occasional traffic spikes to near zero. Decreased the number of steps from 10 to 1 in decrypting the payload while debugging by onboarding our services to an internal GUI based decryption tool. Reduced the DynamoDB costs by per year by optimizing the write and read capacity utilization. Designed and implemented a delayed deregistration workflow to cleanup devices from backend systems that were deleted by customers without causing friction. Acted as Scrum master for more than year and streamlined the Standup, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Review and Retro processes. Handled scaling of Tier 1 services for multiple peak periods including Q4 2021. Improved the traffic projections process by encoding the formulae, there by automating the downstream projections given the upstream traffic projections. This reduced the manual effort by 40 hours. Supported multiple away team works by providing high quality feedback on Design & Code reviews. Enabled full CD for internal Tier-1 services by adding the necessary integration tests as approval steps thereby enabling handsfree deployments.
Skills
- Eclipse
- Xml
- Responsive Web Design
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- C++
- Weblogic
- Oracle
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Javascript
- Jquery
- Html
- Python
- Unix
- Sql
- Pl/Sql
- Java
- Sass
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