About

Somil Agarwal is a highly skilled software developer with almost a decade of experience in the industry. He is currently working as a Senior SDE at Amazon, where he has been working for some time. Prior to this, he worked at Salesforce and Paytm, two of the leading technology companies in India. Somil completed his Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, which is one of the premier engineering colleges in India. He is passionate about large complex projects, massive data volume, complex business rules in a highly distributed and service-oriented architecture. He loves to design systems from scratch and is always keen to learn and keep himself updated with new and promising technologies. At Amazon, Somil has worked on several high-profile projects, including the Dynamic Ad Creator (DAC), which he led from ideation to final launch. He created a web-based application from scratch, which involved the high-level design of the system and low-level design of components. He implemented three backend microservices and a backend service to handle frontend requests. This product helped Amazon designers to improve efficiency in designing Amazon ads as compared to Adobe Photoshop, thereby making it faster to incorporate advertiser feedback and scale. Somil has also worked on several other projects, including rearchitecting how the feedbacks posted by the customer on Amazon retail website are captured and processed. He has actively resolved high severity issues as part of 24x7 on-call. He has worked with technologies like Java, ReactJs, FabricJs, AWS technologies like DynamoDB, CloudFront, S3, among others. Somil has a diverse tech stack, including Software Engineer, Javascript, Salesforce, ReactJS, AWS, Backend, Web, SQL, Java, Microservices, Frontend, MongoDB, ECS, Redis, PHP, MySQL, Kafka, Integration, Senior Software Engineer, and infra. He is a mentor to interns and SDE 1's and has worked on ensuring good code commit/review practices within the team.