About

Sumeet Kandhway is an experienced software developer with over 6 years of relevant experience in the information technology services and product-based industry. Currently working as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, Sumeet has a strong background in Core Java, C++, Go, Spring-MVC Framework, Cascading Hadoop framework, Elastic Search, Databases, and good knowledge of Data Structure and algorithms. He is also open to learning new technologies. Sumeet has previously worked as a Software Development Engineer II and I at Flipkart, where he was part of the Search team responsible for developing and owning the backend pipeline for computation of popularity ranking of products based on their historic performance. He has also designed and developed ranking services that allow more flexibility and experimentation of ranking signals, extensibility to include new signals, and faster ranking refresh of products based on their performance. Heavily using Spark and Cascading to read data from Hadoop/Kafka and making them available to downstream systems, Sumeet's work has led to an increase in overall conversion. Sumeet holds a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, and has previously studied Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics in Gaya College, Gaya. He has a strong tech stack and has worked on various technologies such as Big Data, Apache Airflow, SQL, Kafka, Golang, MySQL, Microservices, Frontend, and Web. Sumeet is a skilled Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working on recommendation systems, search, and backend development. With his expertise in various technologies and experience in the industry, Sumeet is a valuable asset to any team he is a part of.