About

Arun Shakya is a results-driven professional with more than a year of experience in building software solutions to enable Alexa's capabilities everywhere. He has worked with industry leaders to bring delightful voice experiences to third-party speakers, sound bars, televisions, smart displays, wearables, and more. Arun has excellent knowledge of software engineering practices for a full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations. He has also effectively researched and benchmarked Amazon technology against competing systems in the industry. Arun Shakya is a Senior Software Engineer at mpokket, where he brings his proven experience in exerting technical influence over the core platform teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing his knowledge and experience. Prior to mpokket, Arun worked at Amazon as an SDE and at Accenture as an Application Development Analyst. At Accenture, he was responsible for developing, supporting, and maintaining ETL processes using Pyspark and AWS. He also developed ETL procedures to ensure conformity, compliance with standards, and lack of redundancy and translated business rules and functionality requirements into ETL procedures. Arun also monitored and troubleshooted batches and sessions for weekly and monthly extracts from various data sources to the target database. Arun has a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar. He also attended Kendriya Vidyalaya for his secondary education. Arun has a wide range of technical skills, including Software Engineering, AWS, Big Data, Python, test, Research Scientist, ETL, SQL, and Flask. With 2.19 years of relevant experience, Arun is a highly skilled and motivated professional who is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to grow.