United States

Back-end

Namita Dandawate

Senior Software Engineer

Communication

Leadership

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Python

Java

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

Designed, Developed and Launched rewards program for Lyft business riders.
○ Collaborated with PM, Ux designer and data scientist to come up with project requirements, scoping and
pitching the project to the VP.
○ Lead a team of 5 engineers to deliver this project which included setting up a brand new web service and
changes across multiple services to achieve this. Used AWS technologies like DynamoDb and SQS.
● Helped the team with process setup such as scrum, demo, prd review, UX design reviews.
● Active code reviewer and design reviewer on the team and mentoring 2 junior engineers from the org.

Launched a widget on Amazon Home page for collecting inputs for Pets profile.
● Migrated a hosted service to serverless architecture using AWS lambda and SQS.
● Coached and mentored multiple junior engineers from different teams.
● Participated in org wide design reviews.

•	Designed and developed system for automated data deletion, discovery, and disposition for various datasets such as DynamoDB, RedShift, MySQL and Alexandria to meet the GDPR requirements; onboarded 5+ teams
    o	Lead a team of 4 engineers to deliver this project. 
    o	Owned the project planning by breaking down the tasks, creating milestones and running sprints as a scrum master. Co-ordinated with client teams and dependencies to unblock the team. 
    o	Deployed this system on ECS Fargate, provided clients with CDK constructs package so each team can run their separate instances of the software. 
•	Lead weekly OPS meeting in the team to identify any recurring issues. 
•	Lead brainstorming sessions for OP1 planning for team.
•	Designed and developed a stylequiz (Full stack webapp) on amazon retail website for customers to find their style which helps them shop the furniture. 
•	Designed and developed server less rate ingestion system for Merchant Fulfilment team using AWS technologies such as AWS lambda, Dynamodb, S3, cloud formation. 
•	Successfully led latency reduction project for Merchant Shipping team using different techniques like caching, redesigning some call patterns and making some architectural changes to the existing systems.
•	Mentored junior engineers on the team.

•	Enabled Manifesting to carriers by on-boarding to an internal team’s service by making changes in their code base for supporting our use case after evaluating between the choices of writing a new service vs using the existing service.
•	Helped the team build a self-service onboarding tool for different shipping carriers by defining the schema for storing the metadata which needs to be added at every carrier onboarding.  
•	On-boarded multiple carriers including USPS and UPS onto Amazon MFN systems to enable seller fulfilled prime experience. 
•	Led Q4 scaling effort for the team which led to a quiet Q4.
•	Took initiatives in the team to help ease the operational activities.

Completed four months of Java training with CGPA 4.93/5.0. The training was focused on topics such as core Java, JSP, HTML, JSF, POJO, RDBMS and Object Oriented Concepts.

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