About

Apurba Mahanta is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) with over 6 years of experience in software development. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University at Buffalo and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from VIT. Apurba has a strong background in the financial services industry, having worked as a Technology Consultant at Morgan Stanley for Publicis Sapient. During his time there, he developed a data ingestion framework that improved data loading timings and query timings, as well as a publisher-subscriber based model for notifying via MQ Channel and allowing users to run dynamic queries on Greenplum database using load balancer to handle multiple requests. He also revamped a legacy data aggregation framework used in Risk Tech to make it more scalable and maintainable, resulting in a 30% increase in throughput while consuming 50% less memory. Additionally, he developed a data extractor micro-service tool that reduced overall infra cost. Apurba's technical skills include Core Java, Spring framework, Distributed Databases (Greenplum), Big data technologies in Hadoop, Spark, and web technologies in Ext JS and Angular JS. He has experience in agile software development teams, requirement analysis, framework design, product development, optimization, and maintenance. He is proficient in AWS, Apache Hive, Microservices, and infra. Currently, Apurba is working with the Alexa for Business team at Amazon. He is a self-motivated and detail-oriented individual who is passionate about software development and constantly seeks to improve his skills. In his free time, he enjoys contributing to open-source projects and has a personal page showcasing his work.