Gurpreet Kaur
Senior Software Engineer
Summary
Passionate about creating reliable solutions in difficult environments.
Looking for a senior leadership role which provides opportunity to utilize my expertise and to learn and grow in the area of large scale distributed systems.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Software Engineer
Compass
05.2021 - Current
- Part of Core Search Platform team.
- Worked on Search Suggestion Ranking improvements, improved average rank of suggestion clicked from 2.56 to 1.73 and enhanced customer search experience.
- Designed and modeled a new nested document elasticsearch index, to support new search use cases like search Agents by listing price, listing locations and more.
- Review search platform stability issues and worked on multiple efforts like strategically cleaning stale data, reducing search suggestion latencies, working on closing missing data gaps.
Team Lead, SDE III
Expedia
07.2017 - 05.2021
- part of Risk and Security team for Fraud Management System in Expedia Inc.
- Onboarded Customer/Supplier Accounts information into RCM service to avoid collusion fraud which helped save 750k USD.
- Work on Chargeback Handling platform.
- Created document Encryption/Decryption Service Docstore.
- Responsible for designing and resolving ambiguous requirements.
- Mentored junior developers, contract developers, working with cross region team and stakeholder management apart from fulfilling core role of developer.
- Interview and assess potential engineering candidates for recruiting
Software Engineer 2
Snapdeal
07.2015 - 07.2017
- Part of Returns and Replacement ecommerce platform.
- Added support for multiple data- serialization protocols in REST API's. (json,pbuf)
- Worked on centralized Caching using Redis.
- Developed Refund verification flow to reduce frauds.
- Created a microservice Problem Identification Engine – It was used to evaluate and define Refund/Replacement rules.
Software Engineer
BlacknGreen
07.2013 - 07.2015
- Handled Backend Charging Server for Voip Android Application.
- Developed an Event Based system to decide call flow logic for IVR calls.
- Created a Terminal Based UI for showing details of real time calls on System.
- one of the first members of newly created team, played every role: Tester, Server Configurations, Client communication.
Education
B.Tech -
MD University
07.2009 - 06.2013
Skills
Languages: Java, Python
Cloud: AWS: ECS, OpenSearch, Athena
Databases/Storage: MySQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis
Other: Github, Docker, Splunk, Datadog, Jenkins
Architectures: Microservices, Serverless, REST, Event Driven
Work Availability
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Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Compass
05.2021 - Current
Team Lead, SDE III
Expedia
07.2017 - 05.2021
Software Engineer 2
Snapdeal
07.2015 - 07.2017
Software Engineer
BlacknGreen
07.2013 - 07.2015
B.Tech -
MD University
07.2009 - 06.2013