Kritin Vij Email & Phone Number

Mountain View, Ca, Us

* Founding team member of Coursera India | 4th Engineer to join the team that started in May 2023* Working on architecture to simplify the the process of launching Degrees on https://www.coursera.org/degrees platform* Partnering with Marketing & Sales team that works with top rated universities to launch degrees.

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Worked on Amazon Freight website (www.freight.amazon.com), which offers transportation services to enterprise and small-business shippers to bring new self-service capabilities (full-stack), whilst keeping the website performant and fast.* Worked on core backend systems that manage the full shipment workflow comprising of ordering, planning, tracking, and invoicing shipments.* Modeled & architected changes across tech stack to launch a new program AirCargo to allow shippers to ship via aircrafts.* Designed the Northstar vision for Address & Contact Storage across our org & drove alignment on the long term goals.* Led a campaign to shut down a critical service used by 15+ teams across Amazon in favor of AWS offerings by providing working examples and supporting them as needed.* Resolved 570 tickets during oncall (once every 6 weeks) in my 1.5 years in the org, 4x as many as any other developer. In my total tenure at Amazon, resolved ~1450 tickets.* Saved more than $120,000/year in hardware and software costs in 6 months through hardware upgrades, logging deduplication, and service shutdown.* Onboarded and mentored new hires to quickly deliver projects; and actively coached them to be successful in the industry.Notable features: EU Landing Page, LTL UK, Invoice Templates - Velocity, ElasticSearch, Horizonte APIs, Baked Shutdown, Sandswitch (Hardware + Software upgrade to ARM), CLI Scripts, Shipment Tracking Details Page, TimberFS Deprecation, FlyCargo

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Software Dev Engineer II (Nov 2020 – Sep 2021)* Software Dev Engineer I (Sep 2019 – Nov 2020)* Managed and led frontend development, including mockups, for an internal Self-Service rule management web application (CRM) that helps HR manage employees’ time and pay related attributes.* Trained & mentored 6 engineers from ground up to develop the UI for rule management system covering Website Accessibility, Text Internationalization, Data Flow Patterns, and created code-starter templates for org-wide use.* Migrated from manual software deployment to CI/CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment) in less than 5 months thereby saving $48,000/year in costs, 8hrs/week in manual operational work and reducing time of code merge to production from 2 weeks to 2 hours.* Automated the process of taking database backups using AWS Point-In-Time-Restores; improving accuracy of DB restoration to seconds with no performance or availability impact, saving ~8hrs/week in operational costs.* Introduced visibility to critical operations by generating timely notifications when scripts are executed.* Implemented core code architecture of the UI and established guidelines for frontend development across PeopleTech organization (~60 engineers) by creating a starter template (including code examples for common code and data patterns) for other teams to use to create new code packages within the WorkEvents website.* Piloted virtual SDE bootcamps, onboarding 100 new hires with a 100% engagement score for Amazon EMEA.* Cultivated change in team’s code reviewing culture by adding details to the code-review dashboard through custom user-scripts and publishing automated Slack notifications on new code review submissions.* Identified and deprecated an unused API which saved $72000/yr in Neptune DB costs, and improved performance of our team’s core workflow (Step Function Machine).* Notable features: Self-Service UI, ADS SFM/CLI, Neptune DB Deprecation, Scrum Leader, Norma Service

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Created CLI tools and worked on our internal website (Java, Angular) to help Influencers & PMs manage launches.* Helped launch a new business for Amazon Fashion, called The Drop which is a limited edition collection on Amazon.com designed by influencers and launched globally.* https://www.amazon.com/thedrop

Seattle, Wa, Us

* Independently costed, architected and implemented full stack features (Java, Node, React) for real estate agents.* Actively developed new code architecture in React and React Native while porting old code and implementing new features.* Led design, discussion and implementation of various common and core UI components for use across web and mobile in collaboration with UX designers, product managers and Platform team.* Implemented and launched Commute Time Widget for Consumer Apps team (Swift, iOS) to assist users with travel times to property locations.* Mentored and assisted other developers become independent.* Drove multiple hackathon projects, including a brand-new internal-tools login page (www.redfin.com/tools), to production after winning awards such as Biggest Business Impact, Fund It, and Best Effort.* Influenced the team's roadmap through discussions, putting customer's needs first and through active ‘proof of concept’ development in hackathons.* Interviewed ~50 candidates, and participated in hiring events (career fairs, diversity focused events, blitz).* Fielded customer support tickets for our team and raised the bar for operational excellence within the team; helped with ticket prioritization, fix blockers for customers, and communicate feature requests.* Designed and implemented software to make Redfin's codebase SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) compliant post IPO.* Maintain and increase the overall health of our website by reducing web errors (from 20k Kibana/Grafana errors and exceptions to less than 500 in 6 months), decreasing tech-debt and deprecating unused code.* Managed and led the Engineering Session for over 200 engineers at the annual company conference.* Notable features: Customer Details Page, Sidebar Navigation, Header, Events Engineering (Eventbrite), New Base Page, Commute Time Widget, Key Moments, React Native, Common UI Components for org-wide use, SOX Compliant Software, Eventbrite Integration v3 API;

Seattle, Wa, Us

I worked on Offers Engineering team which focuses on building the technology to help buy-side agents be as efficient as possible and give excellent service to customers through superior software.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Taught CSE 451 - Operating Systems (Sept 2015 - Dec 2015)Taught CSE 351 - HW/SW Interface (Apr - June 2015)• Conducted weekly quiz sections consisting of 35 undergrad students.• Created and graded questions for exams, quizzes, review sheets and homework assignments.• Held weekly office hours and tutored students on course material.• Proctored exams, electronic bulletin boards, and discussion sites.

Seattle, Wa, Us

I shipped two full stack features for the Redfin Agent Tools.* Independently implemented new full-stack features for various stakeholders (real estate agents, admins).* Contributed to design decisions on both the features.* Incorporated regular feedback from end-users.* Partnered with a senior dev to field Redfin Agent tickets for the team and resolve them.* Worked on a cross-team feature to port code to new frameworks.* Actively participated in work assigned to the team like bug triaging and deprecation.* Gained experience with variety of new frameworks as well as writing maintainable code.* Worked on multiple quick-hits and automation.* Our team won a prize in the Redfin Hackathon.* Notable features: Company Directory, Admin Survey Response Editor

Seattle, Wa, Us

Establishing a new website while keeping student needs in view.Attend bi-weekly meetings.Create back-end and front-end framework for ease of use by mentors and mentees.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Worked part-time at the Bill Noble Lab for UW Genome Sciences. This was my first introduction to Python and genome sciences and I was working on a software that was parsing through MBs of DNA sequencing data to produce its analysis.Worked on creating an API for an existing software used by thousands of researchers.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Act as liaison between student workers and managementWork at several food stations as Cashier, Assistant to chef, Stocking and Dining, Serving.Work in the kitchen and help prepare food.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Mentor low-income and first generation Seattle area high school students on how to get into college, fund their education, succeed at the SAT/ACT, apply to and receive scholarships, and successfully transition to college.Co-lead the International Student Seminar which strives to enhance the knowledge of international students who want to be mentors and enable them to have all the information and skills required.Member of the Planning Committee that makes large decisions on the direction of the organization as a whole and long-term goalsMentor since September 2012

Seattle, Washington, Us

* Be a role model to fellow students.* Be a liaison for the McCarty Hall.* Attend weekly meetings discussing future planning of events in our Hall.* Manage, plan and co-ordinate new events in the hall for students and staff.* Create posters for and advertise the events* Member, Hall Council (Sept 2014 - June 2015)

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Minor In Mathematics

All India Senior School Certificate