Yash Mardikar | Software Development Engineer

Cloud-Native Skills & Technologies

Programming

Python, Java, C, JavaScript, TypeScript, Scala, CSS, Shell, PowerShell

Cloud & Platforms

AWS (Lambda, AppSync, S3, API Gateway, EC2, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, IAM, CloudFront, Secrets Manager, VPC), Azure, Databricks, Docker, Node.js

Tools & Databases

Git, SVN, Jira, Jenkins, Ansible, Visual Studio, Tableau, MySQL, MongoDB, MSSQL, DynamoDB

Testing & Methodologies

JUnit, Mockito, TestNG, Playwright, Sinon, Agile, Domain-Driven Design, CI/CD, REST APIs, MVC

Professional Experience

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services · Healthcare & Life Sciences

Jul 2022 – Present

Designed and shipped a serverless microservices platform across 50+ GraphQL-driven services using AWS Lambda, Java, and TypeScript, improving reliability for high-throughput healthcare workflows.
Cut response latency by 40% by optimizing Lambda cold starts with warm provisioning, caching strategies, and parallelized BFF queries.
Developed reusable AWS CDK packages and HIPAA-compliant CI/CD pipelines, accelerating deployments by 50% and reducing code duplication by 60%.
Rolled out centralized CloudWatch dashboards, annotation-based metrics, and AWS X-Ray tracing to reduce incident resolution time by 25% and enforce observability without impacting hot paths.
Architected a specialty medication enrollment platform backed by AppSync, reducing patient onboarding time by 40% through automated EHR integrations and domain-driven workflows.
Led integration, load, and canary testing across 15+ Lambda functions, uncovering race conditions, improving scalability by 50%, and lowering deployment errors by 25%.

Software Developer

Infosys Limited

Feb 2017 – Dec 2020

Delivered an automated migration solution that transferred 1.3K+ projects and 2 TB of data from TeamForge to Jira, GitHub, Confluence, and Artifactory using Python, AWS, and REST APIs.
Built a Splunk-style analytics platform aggregating logs from 100+ servers, cutting manual reporting by 40 hours per month and informing licensing decisions via Tableau dashboards.
Automated provisioning and monitoring of enterprise applications with Terraform and AWS SDKs, and streamlined LDAP to SSO migrations for GitHub Enterprise.
Implemented 35+ workflow automations with Python and Shell, eliminating ~200 support tickets per month and boosting revenue by 12% QoQ.

Highlighted Projects in Data & Platform Engineering

Stroke Prediction with Spark

Class project leveraging PySpark on Databricks to achieve 95.5% accuracy predicting stroke risk. Responsible for data preparation with Spark SQL, model training, and validation.

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Airline Customer Satisfaction

Experimented with multiple classification algorithms to predict customer satisfaction with 92% accuracy using Python and scikit-learn.

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IT Asset Management Platform

Full-stack web application built with Express.js and MySQL featuring agile delivery, ERD modeling, and comprehensive project documentation.

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Education

Arizona State University

Jan 2021 – Dec 2022

Master of Science in Information Technology · GPA: 3.94/4.0

Key coursework: Big Data Analytics, Advanced Algorithms, Database Management, Cloud Architecture, Middleware Programming, Database Security.

Walchand College of Engineering

Aug 2012 – May 2016

B.Tech in Electronics Engineering

Leadership & Community Initiatives

Art of Living Volunteer

Coordinated logistics for the 2023 World Culture Festival in Washington, D.C., welcoming global attendees and streamlining on-site check-ins.

Amazon Community Together

Packed disaster relief supplies and back-to-school kits alongside Amazon volunteers, supporting families through crisis response and recovery.

Rotaract Club of WCE Sangli

Organized blood donation drives and community events that funded nutrition and education programs for local orphanages.

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Electronics Engineering Student Association

Served as editor-in-chief, leading a 3-member editorial team to deliver campus-wide communications and PR initiatives during my undergraduate studies.