Summary
Mihir Thanekar is a pragmatic Software Development Engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience building scalable systems, currently at Amazon in Seattle. He blends a strong foundation from UC Irvine with practical internships and roles—most notably shipping a payments lifecycle at Amazon Music that reduced deployment time via infrastructure-as-code and retained significant customers. Mihir excels at automation and efficiency, having streamlined grading workflows with Python and the Canvas API and built CI/CD and backend services using AWS. Comfortable across backend, iOS, and web stacks, he favors iterative learning and measurable results, and often tackles repetitive tasks by automating them away. Beyond code, he communicates technical designs clearly through documentation and presentations, helping teams adopt tools like AWS CDK.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Washington High School
iOS Developer Nanodegree iOS development, iOS Developer Nanodegree iOS development at Udacity
University of California, Irvine
English, Hindi, French, Spanish