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.

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Systems thinking

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.