Pooja Kittur
Software Dev Engineer III at Expedia Group
- Role
- Software Development Engineer Iii at Expedia Group
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Pooja Kittur
I’m a backend software engineer with over 5 years of experience building high-performance, distributed and reliable systems in the travel and marketing domains. I\'m highly skilled in Java, Kotlin, Golang, Python, Spring Boot, GRPC, RESTful web services, GraphQL, and containerized microservices, with experience integrating cloud-native solutions using Docker, Kubernetes, and PostgreSQL/MySQL.I\'m especially motivated by challenges in system design, intelligent infrastructure, and applying large language models (LLMs) to real-world backend workflows.At Expedia Group, I work on backend platforms and marketing tech systems—combining deep engineering expertise with domain knowledge in search engine marketing (SEM) and paid advertising.
Experience
Software Development Engineer Iii
Nov 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Architected and built a scalable self-serve scraping platform using Golang, AWS SQS, and PostgreSQL, handling ~100K scrapers per day to extract marketing insights and cut manual development effort by 80%• Built a Kotlin + Spring Boot based application to analyze video and its metadata (title, description, thumbnail, duration) and correlate them with engagement metrics. Used AWS SQS for scalable processing and LLMs for advanced insights, enabling marketers to optimize video strategies.• Developed a containerized “harvester” process using Python to identify user intent for queries lacking landing pagecoverage. Leveraged ChatGPT to extract high-conversion traffic, capturing 60% of qualified demand and unlocking significant revenue• Engineered and launched a multi-model LLM(Claude, Gemini and Llama) solution to classify travel-related queries, improving keyword recognition accuracy by 20%
Education
University of Houston
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science
2018 — 2020
Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology
2010 — 2014
Skills
- Mysql
- C
- Jquery
- Representational State Transfer (Rest)
- Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
- J2ee Web Services
- Html
- Javascript
- Software Development
- Microsoft Office
- Html5
- Sql
- Hibernate
- Angularjs
- Angular 2
- Java
- C++
- Backbone.js
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