Amanshu Kataria
San Jose, California

I build scalable software systems across product, platform, frontend, and backend.

I am a software engineer focused on building reliable, high-impact systems across frontend and backend, from user-facing product experiences to caching, resilience, performance, and infrastructure-aware application design.

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Product-minded engineering

I enjoy software engineering work that connects product needs with frontend, backend, performance, architecture, and long-term maintainability.

Systems thinking

I care about how products behave under real traffic, failure modes, latency budgets, fallbacks, and operational constraints.

Cross-functional execution

I have worked closely with product, design, marketing, customer-facing teams, backend engineers, and platform partners to ship practical solutions.

Selected work

Selected engineering work across scale, caching, performance, and product systems.

I prefer case studies over a long project gallery: what was the problem, what constraints mattered, what tradeoffs were made, and what improved.

High-scale SEO/SEM caching system

Worked on caching infrastructure for high-volume item page traffic where latency, cache freshness, and upstream dependency behavior directly affected page delivery.

Impact: Improved how pages were served under scale by contributing to caching, streaming, and resilience improvements.

CachingPerformanceResilienceScale

HTML response streaming and latency reduction

Improved the server-side delivery flow for cached HTML item pages, where requests needed to be served quickly while cache writes and upstream fetches were handled safely.

Impact: Reduced avoidable response delay by allowing HTML to start streaming to the requester while the full payload could still be written to cache in parallel.

HTML DeliveryStreamingLatencyCaching

Product migration and system rearchitecture

Led and contributed to product migration work involving customer-facing reliability, application architecture, UI changes, backend coordination, and cross-functional execution.

Impact: Helped move a delayed, complex product effort forward while balancing reliability fixes, design updates, and delivery risks.

ArchitectureMigrationProductExecution

Experience

What I bring to a team

Building scalable software systems across frontend, backend, full-stack, and infrastructure-heavy product areas.
Improving reliability and performance for high-traffic customer and search-facing experiences.
Collaborating across product, design, marketing, customer representatives, backend, and platform teams.
Interested in product engineering, distributed systems, platform work, system reliability, performance, and full-stack problem solving.

About

I like solving ambiguous engineering problems and turning them into simple, reliable systems.

My work sits at the intersection of product engineering and systems thinking. I enjoy understanding user needs, frontend and backend constraints, performance bottlenecks, and operational realities, then building solutions that are useful, maintainable, and measurable.