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Senior Software Engineer

Secure systems.
Measurable scale.

I design and deliver distributed platforms, public APIs, and production infrastructure at AWS scale—with deep ownership across authorization, reliability, and modernization.

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200K+users served
2M+daily API requests
2,000+hosts secured
Vishal Gawade in the mountains at sunset
Based inSeattle, WA
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Profile

Engineering foundations teams can trust.

Senior Software Engineer with 6+ years at AWS building scalable, reliable distributed systems, cloud platforms, and production infrastructure.

I turn complex platform problems into secure, dependable capabilities that customers and engineering teams can use with confidence.

My work spans architecture, authorization and access control, platform modernization, infrastructure automation, mentorship, production delivery, and AI-assisted engineering.

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Selected impact

Security, scale, and operational leverage.

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Centralized Authorization Platform

Re-architected Amazon Connect authorization from a monolithic Lambda into a centralized Fargate service, creating a faster paved path for API teams.

~50% lower cold-start latency20 to 50+ APIs adopted · onboarding reduced to under one week
AWS FargateJavaAuthorization
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Enterprise Access Control

Led hierarchy-based access control for a multi-tenant cloud contact center, enabling fine-grained permissions while closing a critical cross-service authorization bypass.

200K+ users supportedSecure, multi-tenant access across Amazon Connect
Amazon ConnectAccess ControlSecurity
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Public Search API

Designed and launched SearchSecurityProfiles so customers could retrieve filtered results without loading every security profile.

2M+ daily requestsHigh-scale public API with customer-focused retrieval
REST APIsAWSDistributed Systems
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Zero-Downtime Data Migration

Moved three control-plane tables from Amazon RDS to Amazon QLDB using dual writes, backfills, and API changes to preserve consistency throughout the cutover.

3x workload capacityZero downtime · consistent reads and writes throughout migration
RDSQLDBData Migration
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Experience

End-to-end ownership, from architecture to operations.

Oct 2022 — Present

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon Web Services · Seattle, WA

Distributed platforms · Multi-tenant systems
  • Led hierarchy-based access control for Amazon Connect, enabling fine-grained permissions in environments serving 200K+ users.
  • Expanded a centralized Fargate authorization service from 20 to 50+ of 250+ public APIs while cutting cold-start latency by ~50%.
  • Automated security patching across 2,000+ hosts, eliminating 75+ annual on-call tickets.
  • Delivered an AI-assisted React troubleshooting portal in 2 days, reducing investigations from ~30 minutes to seconds.
Apr 2020 — Sep 2022

Software Development Engineer I

Amazon Web Services · Seattle, WA

Cloud APIs · Data residency · Modernization
  • Designed and launched SearchSecurityProfiles, a public API serving 2M+ daily requests.
  • Enabled the Canadian data-residency launch by owning a Lex V2 integration and aligning 4+ teams, cutting estimated deprecation work from three weeks to four days.
  • Integrated six APIs with AWS Service Quotas, reducing resource-limit fulfillment from 3–4 days to minutes.
  • Led a zero-downtime RDS-to-QLDB migration supporting 3x the original workload.
May 2019 — Aug 2019

Software Engineer Intern

Sodexo

Built and deployed a JavaScript and Spring MVC operations dashboard with automated data refresh.

Aug 2015 — Jul 2018

Programmer Analyst

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Delivered Java/Spring web applications and REST APIs for client onboarding and stock-rule validation.

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Technical toolkit

Built for backend depth and cloud-scale delivery.

Backend & Platforms

JavaPythonSpring BootREST APIsMicroservicesDistributed SystemsPlatform Engineering

AWS Cloud

AWS CDKLambdaAPI GatewayFargateECSEC2EventBridgeKinesisStep FunctionsS3

Data & Delivery

Amazon RDSDynamoDBAmazon QLDBMySQLOracleElasticsearchDockerCI/CDMaven

Frontend

ReactTypeScriptJavaScriptHTMLCSS

AI-Assisted Engineering

Claude CodeOpenAI CodexAgentic WorkflowsOutput Validation
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Education

Computer science and engineering foundations.

UB

Master of Science, Computer Science

University at Buffalo · Buffalo, NY

2018 — 2020
VIT

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology · Pune, India

2011 — 2015

Let's connect

Building the next reliable platform?

I'm open to senior software engineering opportunities focused on distributed systems, cloud platforms, and high-impact backend work.

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