Meet Malde

Backend Development for Vancouver based, hyperlocal e-Commerce Startup • Designed and developed Route Planning service using OR Tools that handles thousands of pickups and deliveries every day, while significantly decreasing operational load on warehouse staff • Built Recommendations Service and Clickstream Recording Service from ground up • Worked with founder and vendor managers to understand customer needs and develop features and services • Hiring developers; Managing projects and driving operational excellence

Social Media Startup based out of SF • Reduced the friends-feed load time by ~62% combined, using better indexing, pagination, and lazy-loading • Designed and implemented an efficient search feature with support for filters, from scratch • Added features to the chat system (Firestore as backend) to support features like streaks, prompts, read receipts, etc. • Designed & develop APIs in Python/Flask; Offline, async task processing microservices with Pub-Sub using SNS + SQS

Worked in Personalization Team - Developed and improved various strategies to show contextually relevant product recommendations on various placements of Amazon.com. - Ran A/B experiments to test recommendation strategies - Performed operational tasks to maintain, fix functional and non-functional issues, and improve infrastructure efficiency