Summary
Jay Kudva is a Software Engineer II at Amazon with nine years of experience building high-scale backend infrastructure and safety systems for conversational search and partner-facing integrations. He focuses on launch-critical correctness, deterministic trust layers, and designing systems that enable fast iteration under ambiguity. Comfortable across Java, Python, and SQL and familiar with modern front-end and mobile stacks, he brings a pragmatic full-stack perspective from UC Berkeley to production services. Jay has blended product and engineering roles—from internships to external director and collaborator positions—giving him a knack for translating customer impact into robust system design. Based in New York, he is especially drawn to problems at the intersection of search, financial systems, and customer-facing uncertainty.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Business Administration and Management General, Business Administration and Management General at Evergreen Valley College
Evergreen Valley High School
Spanish, Konkani, English