About

Siddharth Kumar is a highly skilled software engineer with 6.35 years of relevant experience in developing highly available, distributed web applications. He has experience working in an Agile Development environment and is proficient in Java/Spring boot, JavaScript/React, JavaScript/Angular, and Python/Flask frameworks. He has extensive knowledge of using React to develop Single Page Applications (SPAs) and has experience creating interactive UI experience using one-way data flow, Virtual DOM, and React Native features. Siddharth has 2+ years of back-end experience designing and implementing scalable and secure REST APIs based microservices in Java/Spring Boot and Node.js. He also has experience with large-scale distributed system design with components owned by several teams. He has extensive experience in developing web pages using HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, SASS, JavaScript, React, Redux, Angular, JQuery, Ajax, and Bootstrap. Siddharth is experienced in configuring, deploying, and managing applications on AWS, Linux, and Windows. He has experience with deploying large-scale managing distributed applications using Docker and Kubernetes. He also has experience in database design and programming to encapsulate storage and reporting requirements using MySQL, PL/SQL, and DynamoDB (NoSQL). Siddharth has hands-on experience building responsive UI using Typescript/Angular. He is experienced in test automation using Selenium and TestRails to improve application availability and enable continuous deployment (CD). He also has experience in unit testing, functional testing, integration testing using Junit, Selenium, and TestNG. He is experienced in performance and load testing using JMeter. Siddharth has hands-on experience building data pipelines using Apache Kafka and Spark to enable automated reporting data sharing between applications. He also has hands-on experience in machine learning (ML) in building natural language processing (NLP) tool using Python, Numpy, and Spark. Currently, Siddharth is working as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon, where he is working on developing a new and unique experience for customers on Amazon's retail platform. He has also worked on the multiple software stacks owned by several different teams in the Retail org. Siddharth has also worked as a Full-Stack Intern at Hypergrid, where he developed services and APIs for several new features on their distributed SaaS platform using Java Spring Boot. Siddharth has a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science and Technology from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and