About

Tushar Soni is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer II at Amazon's Search and Social Marketing Tech Team. With over 6.78 years of relevant experience, he possesses expertise in several areas ranging from high and low-level design to distributed system design, algorithms and data structures, and object-oriented design. Tushar's technical proficiency is impressive, and he is adept at using tools such as Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, SQL, NoSQL, and observability tools such as LogDNA and DataDog. He has experience working with microservices architecture and is skilled in mentoring junior engineers, doing code reviews, and conducting technical interviews. Before joining Amazon, Tushar worked as a Software Engineer II at Netomi, where he single-handedly shipped 15+ customer projects worth over $2M in revenue. He also engineered the much-demanded agent handoff to the desired department product feature for Zendesk chat channel, increasing customer service ticket resolution by 35% and improving human agent productivity by 60%. He improved the customer success team's throughput by 80% by building a workflow generation tool using Python and BotPress. Tushar onboarded and mentored five junior to senior engineers, figuring out the system bottlenecks and scaling them. He also interacted with customers and stakeholders, gathering feedback and implementing them as product features using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, Workato, and third-party API integrations in a microservices architecture. Tushar has also worked as a Research Engineer and open-source contributor at OpenMined, where he worked on privacy-preserving recommendation system research projects based on Federated Learning techniques. He implemented research papers using Python and PySyft libraries and contributed to PySyft, an encrypted and privacy-preserving deep learning library. Tushar holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the LNM Institute of Information Technology. He has also completed the Future Founder Startup School program from Y Combinator, Applied Computer Science from Scaler Academy, and Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics from Resonance Eduventures Limited. Tushar's tech stack includes Software Engineering, SQL, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, NoSQL, Research Scientist, Microservices, Search, Recommendation system, Redis, Python, Javascript, Elastic Search, Jupyter, Backend, Web, Deep Learning, test, MySQL, Cassandra, ETL, and Mobile.