Amar K

Software Engineer

Media.net•  July 2023 - Present•  Mumbai

HB Static Failover [PHP, Akamai]: • Developed and maintained static failoverto handle infrastructure failures using Akamai rules,reducing 5xx errors to 0% on publisher pages. Client-Side JavaScript Serving [Typescript,express]: • Integrated the Protected Audience API (an alternative to third-party cookies) with other bidders, creating an additional revenue stream forthe team. • Designed a service for adslot performance, measuring total view time & total count, sent to our House Bidder, increased chances of optimal bidding by 2-5%. • Fixed ad code wrapping logic,resolving 5-10% of ad rendering failures and 20-30% of logging discrepancies on Yahoo and other customers. Supply Side Platform (JS Stitching Service) [Golang, Kafka]: • Added logging of JavaScript and internal config size in Kafka. This helped developers reduce debugging time by 50% forfailoverrate issues on certain customers due to the Akamai 1MB limit. • Optimized pod memory usage by creating an HTTP client only once and serving the same instance for all subsequentrequests. Managed Prebid Solution [Typescript,express]: • Engineered a custom Targeting Flow using the Decorator Pattern, ensuring consistent targeting to GAMP. Kafka Dequeuer Service for Prebid [Spring Boot, Kafka]: • Derived internal agency and DSP Ids from other bidders using ourinternal DB mapping with a cron running every 30 minutes, achieving O(1) lookup. Logging these results with a 2-3% match rate. Cookie Syncing Service [PHP]: • Added support for cookie syncing with all bidders behind us using Prebid Server, increasing the cookie match rate and syncing efficiency by 5%.

Software Engineer

HackerRank•  July 2022 - December 2022•  Banglore

Integrated TravisCI and wrote API unit tests, simplifying dev-testing in HackerResume repo. • Fixed bugs and revamped HackerResume UI, significantly increasing user engagement. • Guided developers in Selenium scraping, aiding the development of the HackerRank Job-Board.