Viraj Lad

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services•  February 2020 - Present

Launched an internal service into a new region. Owned planning as well as 80% of the technical work. Led the development, data migration, testing, operational and security approvals. Designed and implemented a feature enabling end-to-end testing in production without affecting customers. Created and executed an exhaustive test plan using this feature giving the team complete confidence. ● Conducted brown bags for frequently used tools and services for new developers.

Software Development Engineer

Audible, Inc•  March 2017 - February 2020

Owned high traffic pages like Product Details, Search, New Releases, Best Sellers on audible.com used by customers worldwide.  Led the project to refresh Audible Gifting web component.  Became one of the SMEs on performance testing for Audible website. Updated the stress testing tool and the process to test live Audible website. Process and dashboards I setup are still being used by all web teams at Audible. Technologies : Java, Spring MVC, Git, JUnit, Selenium, CI/CD

Technology Associate

Susquehanna International Group, LLP•  August 2016 - February 2017

Achieved 3x-6x performance improvement for libraries used for data synchronization by utilizing Low-overhead Data Structures and Asynchronous Multithreaded programming. Facilitated deployments and reduced user errors by creating and integrating a Asynchronous & Multithreaded Web Service backend to support simultaneous deployments to multiple targets using a GUI.

Software Developer Intern

ec2 Software Solutions•  October 2015 - May 2016

Reduced manual inputs and improved auditability by integrating Active Directory authentication into a Hospital Management application.

Software Engineer Intern

LogMeIn•  May 2015 - August 2015

Enhanced user experience of a conferencing product by reducing manual user inputs. Reduced the time required to dial in by more than 70% in the process.

Systems Engineer

Infosys Ltd•  October 2011 - June 2014

● Developed dashboards to monitor petrochemical plant KPIs for a petroleum giant. ● Created an application to generate these dashboards in new regions based on configuration reducing manual effort by more than 80%.