Rishi Ranjan
Applied Scientist II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRishi Ranjan is an Applied Scientist II based in Seattle with six years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems and AWS-first architectures at Amazon. He has driven cross-team projects for Alexa and AWS services, leveraging AWS CDK, Python, Java, and boto3 to automate CI/CD, deploy infrastructure, and integrate LLMs like Falcon 40B for adaptive survey and analytics pipelines. His contributions to the open-source amazon-ssm-agent demonstrate practical systems-level problem solving—adding retry logic, improving S3 uploads, and extending platform-specific logging and updaters. Comfortable across cloud, big data, and ML stacks, he pairs academic training from NYU with a track record of shipping resilient production services and optimizing operational reliability.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityAtomic Energy Central School
English, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
go10
aws10
s3-bucket9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
debugging9
system-administration8
windows8
macos7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
aws/amazon-ssm-agent
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
An agent to enable remote management of your EC2 instances, on-premises servers, or virtual machines (VMs).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 15 commits, 1 push in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rishi contributed to fixing bugs and improving the Amazon SSM Agent's functionality. They addressed issues related to EC2Launch console output, S3 uploads and added retry logic for handling SSM documents during reboots. Moreover, the user enhanced the agent by including the AWS PV driver version in the Windows instances' system logs and added an updater for macOS.
virtual-machine
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