Phani Vardhan Kaspa

About Phani Vardhan Kaspa

I\'ve spent 15+ years building systems that work reliably at scale—the kind where downtime means real business impact. Currently at Amazon as an SDE 2, I work on AI-driven automation, enterprise access control, and distributed platforms serving hundreds of thousands of employees.What I DoI build cloud-native systems that solve real-world problems. That means designing architectures that handle millions of requests, debugging performance issues, and ensuring data consistency across distributed systems. I focus on making operations smoother—because the best code doesn\'t wake people up at night.Recent Work I\'m Proud Of🤖 AI for Incident Response: Built a system that investigates production incidents autonomously using Amazon Bedrock. Uses temporal pattern recognition and semantic search to find root causes in under 5 minutes. Learns from every incident to improve accuracy. Access Control at Scale: Designed an RBAC platform for 300K+ corporate employees handling sensitive data (compensation, ratings, PII). Responds in under 100ms with 99.99% uptime using DynamoDB for speed and RDS for relationships. Zero-Downtime Migration: Led a 6-month effort across 2 teams to migrate our workforce management platform—100K+ employees worldwide, zero downtime. Used distributed transactions with eventual consistency and feature toggles for gradual rollout. Performance Optimization: Tracked down an API bottleneck during on-call—expensive object copies during validation. Swapped in a lighter approach and cut latency by 80%. Workflow Automation: Automated employee settlement workflows with smart routing and templates. Reduced manual work by 80%(4-5 people → 1 person).Tech StackLanguages: Java, Spring, Guava, Dagger, JOOQCloud: AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, SageMaker, Step Functions)AI/ML: Amazon Bedrock, OpenSearch Vector Store, Strands SDKDatabases: Oracle, MySQL, DynamoDB, TimeStreamGrowing EngineersMentored 4 engineers on code quality, system design, and production operations. One promoted to SDE 2, one intern converted to full-time. Conducted 70+ technical interviews and pursuing Bar Raiser certification.What Drives MeI love solving problems that create real impact—cutting incident response from hours to minutes, enabling seamless migrations, building systems that scale to millions. I focus on solutions that matter to the business and the people using them.

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer

   Amazon

   Jan 2019 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

Education

• Sir C R Reddy College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Mechanical Engineering

  2005 — 2009