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Alok Kumar

Bangalore,India

Summary

Personable Software Developer accustomed to heading up successful development teams through agile direction and careful delegation. Willing to direct large-scale teams or work hands-on to complete extremely difficult projects. Brings both cutting-edge programming expertise and exceptional interpersonal skills to leadership roles.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Software Development Engineer 2

Amazon
Bangalore, India
07.2019 - 05.2021
  • Worked with Deals IN team to enhance various services.
  • Provided support during peak traffic time like Prime Day, Black Friday Cyber Monday sales.
  • Worked with Supply Chain team to recommend the package type and size incase of package free shipment
  • Enhanced the Seller Order Management Dashboard by adding the filters, banners and alerts which helps minimizing cancellations and returns
  • Also provided the timely and regular support by taking responsibility of the team's oncall as a part of the operational excellence.

Software Development Engineer

Zefo
Bangalore, India
09.2016 - 03.2019
  • Designed and developed photo upload dashboard for upload, download and re-sizing product images
  • Developed listeners for preliminary checks on product images which are uploaded by warehouse photographers
  • An example is checking for the correct aspect ratio
  • After the checks are passed, the images are moved ahead in the pipeline, otherwise an alert is invoked for the concerned team
  • Increased warehouse efficiency by creating Cataloging tool, Quality Check tool and Product Pricing tool and also minimized losses due to misplaced items/spare parts
  • Designed a state machine to ensure that a particular product moves through well defined, predictable and allowed states during its life-cycle from inventory to shipping to returns
  • Developed internal tools for marking and processing damaged items as well as repair/re-cataloging of returned items
  • The tool also included features to scrap items and keep an audit record for them too
  • Created a model dashboard, to create, manage and auto populate common attributes for products having the same model and make
  • Inventory management tool for inter-warehouse transfer of products, which ensured a smooth inter-city order shipments
  • Auto-generation of vouchers from our participating businesses like Urban Ladder and Pepperfry
  • These vouchers were given to customers, who sell their items to Zefo
  • Wrote and maintained various crons and scheduled scripts which ensured healthy systems and removal of stale or redundant data across services.

Software Development Engineer

Practo
Bangalore, India
06.2015 - 08.2016
  • Internal tool for merging multiple practices/doctors/user-accounts to improve data quality and eliminating duplicates in database
  • Audit system for the merged and primary profiles
  • Tool for computing the diff of user edits to practice/doctor profiles
  • Preventing duplication of data at source by finding and showing the possible duplicate profiles before creation of new profiles
  • Worked with Symfony security and hierarchical roles configurations to configure various access/modification rights for Practo employees
  • Fixed several incorrect data mappings and cleanups for various orphan and junk data

Education

B.TECH - Computer Science And Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, BHU
Varanasi
07.2011 - 05.2015

Skills

Programming: Java, Python, C, PHP

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Timeline

Software Development Engineer 2

Amazon
07.2019 - 05.2021

Software Development Engineer

Zefo
09.2016 - 03.2019

Software Development Engineer

Practo
06.2015 - 08.2016

B.TECH - Computer Science And Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, BHU
07.2011 - 05.2015
Alok Kumar