Sunnyvale, California, United States
Alexa Location Services, Sunnyvale
• Planned, designed and implemented the migration of a Tier 1 service which handled around 90000 transactions per second, from Amazon internal infra to Native AWS. Automated creation of AWS infrastructure via code which improved extensibility to support regionalized stacks. Migration to Native AWS reduced operation load by 20% with no net increase in cost thereby meeting our cost reduction goals
• Ran campaigns with over 70 clients to migrate traffic to Native AWS without disrupting the availability, latency and user experience by setting up a custom AWS Route53 DNS Migration infrastructure. Integrated scheduled scaling policies and API based throttling. Collaborated with the test team to integrate with AWS Hydra to implement integration, functional and load tests for ALS on Native AWS
• Contributed to the Coarse Location accuracy improvement initiative. Worked on integrating a new input signal - GeoIP which improved the accuracy of the algorithm from 65% to 90%.
• Security lead for sharing GPS-derived device coarse location data to various teams within Amazon.
‣ Implemented My Content and Devices deletion and GDPR capabilities displayed on the Amazon retail webpage for coarse location data present in internal stores within the customer promised 5 day SLA
‣ Designed, implemented and delivered a full-fledged auditing system to ensure location data was completely deleted from internal data-stores on customer account and profile closures within the 30 day customer SLA
‣ Drove conversations with all teams in the data flow path to ensure they met the access and deletion control criteria defined in Amazon’s geo-location data handling policy
‣ Addressed security findings for our Geofencing and Geolocation modules which were raised through penetration tests
• Gained experience in Cloud Services, A/B Testing, Gamedays, Service Operational Readiness Reviews
