Vineeth S. - Sr. Software Engineer

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jun 2023 - Present

2 years 7 months

Berlin, Germany

Spearheaded general planning, prioritization, feature development and performance improvements of the Ruby on Rails e-commerce application; introduced continuous application profiling (monitoring for N+1s, p95s exceeding the threshold) and profiling memory for unexpected slowness, improved P95 latency from ~800ms to 500ms of the slowest endpoints.
Introduced StatsD and Grafana dashboard to monitor and correlate business and developer metrics for early developer intervention, reducing the response time for broken vendor feeds from weeks to days.
Integrated generative AI for improving product curation workflow, which improved curation time from hours to minutes.
Introduced data warehousing using GCP as a datastore and Metabase as a visualizing tool, enabling teams to migrate from complex Excel files to robust SQL-backed dashboards.
Designed and implemented standard webhooks and Shopify app for faster onboarding of product suppliers into the platform, which reduced vendor onboarding from weeks to hours.
Deployed the website to Austria, Italy, Netherlands, France and Belgium regions.
Translated the website to English and automated the curation process to translate to English, reducing curation time from 10 to 3 minutes.

Sep 2021 - May 2023

1 year 9 months

Enabled data-driven optimization of recommendation strategies by leveraging Kafka and Spark to capture and process events related to user interactions and conversions.
Introduced A/B test framework that allowed data scientists to track the success metrics associated with generated recommendations.
Designed and implemented an internal automation service that saved ~20 developer hours per week for different teams.
Designed and implemented extension in Shopify’s admin interface to allow for customization of recommendations experience for each product.
Enhanced product discoverability for millions of Shopify stores by designing and implementing a GraphQL interface for search and predictive search functionalities.

Sep 2018 - Aug 2021

3 years

Led the implementation of admin frontend with ReactJS and GraphQL API based on Node.js for an in-house CRM system to replace Salesforce.
Implemented and led the design of a messaging system between the organization, customers and professionals.
Implemented email inbox management using IMAP APIs.
Implemented GraphQL alternatives for REST endpoints.

May 2017 - Aug 2018

1 year 4 months

Worked extensively with Clojure and ClojureScript to import data from invoicing applications into the Rails app.
Integrated monolith Rails app with microservices using feature toggles.
Built a user data archival system and clean-up using Clojure to support GDPR guidelines.

Sep 2015 - May 2017

1 year 9 months

Led the implementation of omni-channel giftcard to be usable on the e-commerce store and the retail stores, working with a designer, junior developer and a product manager.
Drove the use of Elasticsearch for search and discovery for the online e-commerce store, which supported a production load of 20,000 requests per minute.

Oct 2013 - Apr 2015

1 year 7 months

Worked with the client to help build the MVP, taking complete ownership of the app from start to end of the engagement.
Worked closely with the CTO to rewrite the existing application to add new features and support APIs.
Worked on the server side web device management console leveraging the features provided by Ruby on Rails framework, using RSpec as the TDD/BDD framework.

Sep 2011 - Oct 2013

2 years 2 months