Marlene Shankar
Senior Software Engineer at Freelance
United States
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Top SchoolMarlene Shankar is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building and scaling customer-facing systems across gaming and cloud platforms. She has led major refactors and migrations at Amazon Games and AWS that improved launch velocity, reduced operational burden, and served millions of users, and now applies that product-first mindset to the Valorant Store at Riot Games. Her work spans frontend, backend, and infrastructure—driving performance wins (page load improvements up to 90%), consolidating microservices for 10M+ customers, and simplifying complex systems to lower cost and operational risk. Beyond coding, she blends technical leadership with customer empathy, regularly partnering with service teams to resolve security and user-impacting issues. An unexpected thread in her background is a long-running parallel life as a freelance jewelry artist, reflecting a creative attention to detail that informs both UX and engineering trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biochemistry and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Biochemistry and Computer Science at Stony Brook UniversityGithub contributions (5)
mshankar13/PsychSpace
Mar 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:55 commits, 52 pushes in 2 months
kenfehling/World-of-Carbon
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 12 days
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