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Sharad Kochhar

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Sydney

Summary

Detail-oriented, organized, and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Software Engineer

Microsoft
05.2018 - 04.2022
  • Led the design and development of multiple enterprise-level microservice applications of Commerce Experience Group, driving $35.3 billion of revenue every year using the latest technologies of Azure, C#, .NET, Cosmos DB, Azure Functions, Key Vault, and MS Graph.
  • Designed and implemented scalable APIs and background workers for managing first- and third-party proprietary licenses using .net Core, Azure Functions, and other Azure cloud technologies that serve millions of license requests daily.
  • Led the development of several products E2E, from identifying system requirements and partner dependencies to workload balancing, software implementation, engineering, testing, and configuring metrics, alarms, monitors, and dashboards.
  • Enriched system metrics by integrating the platforms with telemetry; facilitated in-depth logging by correlating APIs with vector contexts.
  • Continuous Integration/Deployment Pipeline Integration, pull requests, code reviews, load/stress testing, unit/integration/e2e testing

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
04.2017 - 04.2018
  • Implemented enterprise applications of Prime's Content Experiment Platforms using Java, React, AngularJS, AWS, and DynamoDB.
  • Designed and developed systems that facilitate marketers to perform various optimization experiments within the Prime ecosphere.
  • Automated and optimized business logic for the core marketing experiments, including A/B, Auto-Targeting, and Multivariate Testing.
  • Completely automated the marketing platforms' user-experience testing process by integrating Nightwatch Selenium.

Software Engineer

ebay
12.2014 - 03.2017
  • Designed and implemented enterprise fintech applications of South Korea's largest e-commerce platforms (Gmarket, Auction, SmilePay), driving monthly revenue of $1 billion using C# .NET, MVC, MSSQL, node, react, redux, and jQuery.
  • Reported directly to CPO: Lead engineer for designing and developing the fintech transaction dashboard that provides a rich visual summary of daily user purchase patterns powered by Google Chart. Used by the board of directors in the decision-making process.
  • Engineering owner of the E2E experience of the commerce platform's cancel, return, and exchange systems (PC/Mobile).
  • Integrated multiple third-party systems with the escrow platform, including Alipay, increasing global revenue by 23% in the first quarter.

Software Engineer, Intern

NCSoft
07.2014 - 08.2014
  • Fashion Street: Mobile social game application development (Cocos2D/C++)

Software Engineer, Contract

Cyberstep
06.2013 - 12.2013
  • Combat Bots Cosmic Commander: Mobile RTS game client and server development (ActionScript3 & Java)

Education

Bachelor of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
08.2007 - 12.2010

Skills

    C#

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Awards

  • Bronze Award, Won 4th prize for the development of action game SPIKE at HAL Game Development Competition in Tokyo, 03/01/13
  • Certificate of Japanese Language Proficiency N1, The highest-level certificate of Japanese proficiency (24.1% Pass Rate), 02/01/14

Mentorship

  • Springboard, Coding Bootcamp Mentor, Responsible for mentoring and giving career advice to SWE students, 01/01/21, 04/30/22
  • Computer Science Tutor, Programming | Data Structure and Algorithms | career advice | coding interview prep | professional portfolio

Timeline

Software Engineer

Microsoft
05.2018 - 04.2022

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
04.2017 - 04.2018

Software Engineer

ebay
12.2014 - 03.2017

Software Engineer, Intern

NCSoft
07.2014 - 08.2014

Software Engineer, Contract

Cyberstep
06.2013 - 12.2013

Bachelor of Science - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University
08.2007 - 12.2010
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