Senior Software Engineer
Current-> Mainly focused on delivering key features aligned with OKRs, while enhancing the performance and stability of services that enable customers to run over 1.5M Selenium and Appium tests daily on real physical devices through Browserstack Automate.-> Explored AWS S3 to identify cost-saving opportunities and led the planning and implementation of cost reduction initiatives for 3 half-yearly OKRs, achieving a 15% reduction in product operational expenses. Delivered $50K in annual savings by optimizing S3 storage class for user session logs, $7.5K monthly by compressing logs and managing their retrievals, and $8K monthly by streamlining storage of debug screenshots (0.2M objects/day).-> Developed and implemented custom media upload functionality to support mid-session media uploads for Selenium and Appium sessions, and pre-session extension installations for desktop sessions, to unblock multiple customers, securing deals worth $800K, and now enabling seamless usage across half a million daily sessions by multiple users.-> Specified and implemented an automated region toggle for a critical component of the automate product, leveraging HA parameters to prevent product downtime during region-specific issues.-> Established GRR compliance for India region customers by implementing robust data protection measures across Automate and App-Automate components for user PII and test session logs (Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright, Puppeteer). This initiative secured over $2M in new customer deals.-> Implemented robust spam mitigation and rate limiting on NGINX, leveraging best security practices to block spam and invalid requests, ensuring system stability and maximising uptime.-> Managed BAU operations and rotational on-call, resolving production issues, ensuring SLA compliance, and re-architecting services for high availability and actively involved in cost estimation planning initiatives