Simra Afreen

Software Engineer

Amazon•  July 2019 - Present

Worked on multiple business logics revolving around shipment control options during the lifecycle of a package at Amazon. - Launched unattended delivery opt-out program in Japan - Enhancements to enable systemic reschedules launched in the US, UK - Improved customer experience by sending delivery reminder notifications prior 24hrs of delivery time - Enabled Customer returns program in Germany - Implemented a rate limiter for async APIs and throttler for sync APIs - Automated deployment pipeline for shipment control to avoid manual efforts - Made code robust by increasing unit test coverage to 99-100%, adding integration and functional tests - Evaluated scaling requirements and prepared peak documentations - Working on integrating third-party APIs using REST to enable cancellation for two carriers - Working on a global caching solution for extremely low latency queries - Certified interviewer at Amazon to hire SDEs for the organization, mentoring an SDE in my team Technologies: Java, Spring, AWS (DynamoDB, Athena, etc), Ruby