Software Engineer · Distributed Systems · Backend · Data Infrastructure
9+ years building large-scale systems · SDE II @ Amazon (Route 53)
I'm a software engineer with 9+ years of experience across distributed systems, backend platforms, and data infrastructure. I currently work on Amazon Route 53 — building DNS infrastructure that operates at internet scale. My path started in machine learning and moved into platform and systems engineering; I'm drawn to the problems where correctness and scale meet.
Amazon — Software Development Engineer II · 2022 – Present Route 53 DNS infrastructure and query-logging systems; large-scale processing of DNS data. Earlier, drove app-install growth for Amazon Music through large-scale experimentation.
Udaan — Software Engineer · 2021 – 2022 Built services for a financial compute platform handling ledger bookkeeping and payment settlement. Drove adoption of OpenTelemetry-based observability and PromQL-based failure alerting.
Capillary Technologies — Senior Software Engineer → ML Engineer · 2018 – 2021 Owned ETL pipeline optimization and built IaC + CI/CD for deployments across multiple Kubernetes clusters. Earlier, cut Spark cluster launch time 10× (20 min → 2 min) and re-architected distributed batch jobs processing 6B+ data points (2 days → 5 hours, ~50% lower cost).
Zycus — Associate Tech Lead · 2020 Built deep-learning demand & price forecasting models and the inference services around them.
Earlier — Data Scientist @ Metripping · Graphics Engineer @ VizExperts (3D simulation for EO-sensor missile-launch detection)
IIT Kharagpur — Dual Degree, Industrial & Systems Engineering
- CMU 15-445 — Database Systems
- MIT 6.824 — Distributed Systems
- Writing about systems, backend, and architecture → ramchandra94.github.io