Shiva Ranga Chawala

About Shiva Ranga Chawala

Software Development Engineer | Systems, Scale, and Cloud Architecture* Highly accomplished Software Development Engineer with over 6 years of experience specializing in designing, scaling, and maintaining Tier-1 distributed backend systems for high-volume platforms at Amazon, AWS, and Tesla. Expert in driving mission-critical initiatives from architecture to production, focusing on customer engagement, system reliability, and cloud compliance.# Key Achievements & Impact* Drove 3x Customer Engagement: At Amazon Fire TV, owned and scaled core backend services that successfully increased personalized content exploration from 3–4 rows to over 10 rows on the Home screen, significantly boosting content discovery and retention for millions of users.* Led Critical Infrastructure Migration: Solely engineered and executed the zero-downtime migration of five Tier-1 services across AWS regions, including new endpoint creation, phased traffic shifts, and cache optimization for faster failover.* Revenue-Generating Features: Spearheaded backend development to enable live Thursday Night Football (TNF) streaming within the Feature Rotator, transforming a static ad surface into a dynamic, engaging content destination that boosted engagement and ad revenue.* Achieved 10x Scalability: Contributed to a major scalability re-architecture for the AWS Config rules evaluation service, enabling backend systems to reliably handle a 10x increase in traffic during large-scale compliance rule processing.* Full-Stack Delivery: Delivered end-to-end solutions, including driving a major Fire TV UI revamp, designing RESTful APIs/microservices for the Tesla Billing Engine, and delivering React-based frontend enhancements for the AWS Config console.# Core Technical Expertise* Backend: Java, Kotlin, C#, C++, RESTful API & Microservice Design, Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture.* Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda, SNS, S3, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, AWS Config), CI/CD.* Databases: DynamoDB, MySQL, Mongo DB.* Frontend: React, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript.

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer Ii

   Amazon

   Nov 2021 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Drove innovation and optimized performance for high-scale, personalized Fire TV experiences serving millions of customers globally. Owned and maintained multiple Tier-1 backend services, ensuring stability and availability for critical customer features.

Education

• Vellore Institute of Technology

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Software Engineering

• The University of Texas at Dallas

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science