About

Aman Mahajan is an accomplished Software Engineer with a passion for Big Data and Backend Systems. With over 1.5 years of experience in the field, Aman is particularly interested in distributed processing and computing. He is skilled in Big Data, Apache Spark, Kafka, Zookeeper, Spring, Java, Scala, Python, C/C++, and Kotlin. Currently working as an SDE-2 at Amazon's Alexa Shopping, Aman is responsible for creating efficient and scalable systems for the platform. Prior to this, he worked at Expedia as a Software Development Engineer 1 (Big Data), where he owned, maintained, and built a data pipeline/system to transform and ingest raw security logs into different databases using Spark Streaming, Elastic Search, and AWS. He was also an integral part of the Security Detection Platform, where he collaborated with data scientists to onboard a UBA-based machine learning model. Aman has also worked as a Student Researcher at the Information Sciences Institute, where he classified YouTube videos as relevant for kids using text classification models and machine learning by extracting video captions from YouTube. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from NSIT. Aman has a strong tech stack that includes Software Engineering, Big Data, Spark, ML, Kafka, AWS, Text Classification, Spring, Backend, Research Scientist, Python, Amazon Athena, Elastic Search, Search, ETL, Scala, Java, Kotlin, and Apache Hive. With 4.53 years of relevant experience, Aman is an expert in his field and is always eager to learn and explore new technologies.