About

Kritin Vij is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Freight with over 7 years of experience in software development. He is a full-stack engineer who loves working across the breadth and depth of the stack and thrives in an environment that encourages feedback from end-users as well as from within the team. At Amazon Freight, Kritin is focused on improving the Shipper Experience by bringing new self-service capabilities (full stack) while keeping the website performant and fast. He is working on core backend systems that manage the full shipment workflow comprising of ordering, planning, tracking, and invoicing shipments. Kritin's current role at Amazon Freight allows him to make an impact in the organization as well as the end-users of his software. In his previous role at Amazon, Kritin managed and led frontend development, including mockups, for an internal Self-Service rule management web application (CRM) that helps HR manage employees’ time and pay related attributes. He trained and mentored six engineers from the ground up to develop the UI for rule management systems covering Website Accessibility, Text Internationalization, and Data Flow Patterns. Kritin migrated from manual software deployment to CI/CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment) in less than five months, thereby saving $48,000/year in costs, 8hrs/week in manual operational work, and reducing the time of code merge to production from two weeks to two hours. He also automated the process of taking database backups using AWS Point-In-Time-Restores, improving accuracy of DB restoration to seconds with no performance or availability impact, saving ~8hrs/week in operational costs. Kritin has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science, Minor in Mathematics from the University of Washington. He is experienced in software engineering, frontend development, CI/CD, UI, AWS, backend, integration, and web development. Kritin is a team player who enjoys working on software with an equally passionate group of people. He is always looking for opportunities to make an impact in the organization and end-users of his software.