Hi, my name is

Ameya.

I build and scale cloud-native systems

Software engineer with 12+ years of experience as an individual contributor — designing microservice backends, event-driven workflows, and data platforms on Azure and AWS.

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About Me

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I am a software engineer with 12+ years of experience as an individual contributor, currently at Kangarootime in Buffalo, NY. I work across product teams delivering microservice-based software backed by Kafka, with a focus on backend systems, event-driven architecture, and data platforms.

Over my career I have taken solutions from design to production on both Azure and AWS — from serverless mass-mailing infrastructure and high-throughput RESTful and GraphQL APIs to configuration-driven ETL pipelines and Kubernetes-hosted services. I care about observability, iterative delivery measured by outcomes, and infrastructure as code.

Technologies I work with regularly:
.NET / C# GraphQL Node / JavaScript React PostgreSQL / SQL Server Azure AWS Kubernetes Terraform Kafka Elasticsearch Azure Data Factory

Experience

Software Engineer - Kangarootime Inc
Nov 2023 - present

Individual contributor across multiple product teams delivering microservice-based software with a Kafka backbone.

  • Engineered solutions on .NET and GraphQL BFFs powering enrollment experiences for mobile and web clients.
  • Took ownership of multiple solutions deployed on Kubernetes in AWS, and improved the observability of owned services.
  • Streamlined delivery of analytic reports, enabling the data science team.
  • Stabilized a high risk/reward project within the first four months of joining.
Staff Product Developer - Anthology Inc
Jan 2022 - Nov 2023

Worked across multiple teams using a Kanban approach to achieve Objectives measured by Key Results (OKRs).

  • Led the initiative to architect and develop configuration-driven ETL for an analytics product.
  • Built cloud-native data delivery pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, and Azure Data Lake Analytics.
  • Promoted developing solutions through iterative experiments rather than hypothesis, and drove a cross-team data initiative.
Senior Software Developer
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
  • Hands-on developing and deploying solutions on Azure Kubernetes Service.
  • Owned Azure DevOps CI/CD and infrastructure as code, primarily with Terraform.
Senior Software Developer — Insight - Campuslabs Inc
Nov 2017 - Jul 2020
  • Iteratively brought hosting cost down 4x while growing clients 7x over the same period.
  • Led design and implementation of AKS-based services for indexing data into Elasticsearch clusters, and handled ELK infrastructure delivery.
  • Built business-critical services on serverless compute, including Azure Durable Functions, and RESTful APIs on .NET Core / ASP.NET / MSSQL.
  • Owned CI/CD on Azure DevOps and infrastructure as code with Terraform.
Senior Software Developer — Course Evaluations
Sep 2014 - Sep 2017
  • Designed and implemented serverless mass-mailing infrastructure on Azure Functions, improving resiliency and reducing developer dependency for troubleshooting.
  • Designed data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lake Analytics; led data integration with third-party reporting systems.
  • Built high-throughput .NET Core APIs in C# using Dapper, NHibernate, and Entity Framework.
Software Developer — Core Data Platform & Engage
May 2009 - Jan 2016
  • Designed high-volume imports using SSIS and developer-facing ASP.NET APIs with caching strategies for internal teams.
  • Built ASP.NET MVC web applications and a significant part of an Ionic-based mobile app, with test-driven development.
  • Helped move services from on-prem infrastructure to Azure, and implemented CI/CD using Azure Pipelines.

Projects

Event Sourced Workflows
Event Sourcing DDD Kafka
Event Sourced Workflows
A business-critical service capturing submissions through approval workflows, generating side effects across independently deployed downstream services.
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Migrating to Azure Data Factory
Azure Data Factory Flink Elasticsearch
Migrating to Azure Data Factory
Migrated a legacy data pipeline to Azure Data Factory using the strangler pattern, transforming multi-source data for downstream indexing and analytics.
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Emails & Serverless
Serverless Azure Functions Queues
Emails & Serverless
Serverless mass-mailing infrastructure on Azure Functions for sending end-of-semester surveys to students at scale.
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Scaling Custom Indexing Services
Azure Functions Elasticsearch Scaling
Scaling Custom Indexing Services
Scaled a legacy background data service managing per-tenant Elasticsearch indices for analytical query workloads in a multi-tenant product.
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