Pooja Desai

architecture and scalable technologies like Elasticsearch and Temporal workflows.

• Led the design and development of the data modelling efforts for a new document editor product which

helped the marketing agencies propose the products to local businesses.

• Built multiple high performing, reliable systems using Temporal workflow orchestration which involved

sharding and processing of huge data sets.

• Owned the development efforts of implementing Elasticsearch in the product which led to improving

the search performance.

• Developed Open APIs for updating the Business Information for SMBs on the platform. This contributed

to gaining more partners into the system and create an API-first approach for the product.

- UPDATE Listing Profile - This API helps in updating the business information via API integration

- GET Listing Profile - This API helps in getting the business information via API integration

• Instrumental in integrating the 3rd party APIs such as Google cloud APIs to improve the SEO of the

product by using gRPC framework which boosted the revenue by 8.6 percent with an increase of 45k

CAD/month.

• Provided technical mentorship to the team members and helped them to understand the product.

Part of the pricing and promotion team at JCPenney.com. Involved in the development of cluster computing

projects which made use of Nosql and Graph Database along with cloud–computing frameworks to manage

and process big data.

• Responsible for several development efforts which involved designing of architecture using Neo4j Graph

DB and No-SQL DB such as Cassandra.

• Delivered emergency price changes to cross-functional teams using AWS Kinesis.

• Built the capability for mass updating of around 500+ price points using Future Task multi-threading

framework and RESTful APIs which resulted in 45 percent reduction time for the operations team.

• Owned the development efforts in consuming a new price point(pre-clearance) in the eco-system

Software Development Engineer building an e-commerce website and application framework for a fin-tech

startup.

• Implemented Apache Kafka messaging service to provide unified, high throughput,low-latency platform

for handling real time data feeds.

• Worked as a sole developer in creating the first EMI calculator for the company which reduced the

dependency on the salesforce team by 30 percent

• Streamlined engineering processes and provided system training, best practices and project-based leadership

to team members resulting in a 20 percent reduction in development time.