About

Sameer Sonawane is a highly skilled software engineer with a passion for building innovative products that solve real-world challenges. With almost 7 years of experience in the industry, he has worked with some of the biggest names in tech, including Google and Amazon. Currently working as a software engineer at Meta, Sameer is responsible for transporting petabytes per hour via a distributed, buffered queueing system. He has a strong background in developing solutions for complex problems in the domains of financial markets and e-commerce transportation networks. Some of his notable projects include building recommendation systems, text summarization engines, and big data solutions. Sameer's primary interests lie in high-performance distributed systems, optimization problems, and natural language processing. He is constantly on the lookout for new challenges in these areas and has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that drive business growth. During his time at Google, Sameer worked in the Search Core Platform team, where he designed and developed a search query logging and debugging framework to help developers debug search queries as a graph across multiple systems. He also initiated and executed the strategy to break the monolithic Core Search service into microservices architecture to achieve better fault tolerance and reliability across all the Search queries. At Amazon, Sameer built a highly scalable, fault-tolerant batch processing system using Apache Spark to calculate the shipping costs of all items delivered by Amazon. The system now does all the calculations in 50 minutes as compared to earlier time of 4 hours, thus reducing the processing time by 80%. He also worked on designing and implementing a cell-based architecture to process the shipping costs in a highly parallel and cost-effective manner, which led to a significant reduction in the fleet size and provisioned resources by 30%. Sameer holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology. He also completed his High School education from Symbiosis School, Nashik. Sameer's tech stack includes software engineering, search, NLP, big data, backend, microservices, and Spark. Overall, Sameer is a highly motivated and driven professional with a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions that drive business growth. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to expand his skills and knowledge.