Ritu Pathak
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
California, United States
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Top SchoolRitu Pathak is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon in California with five years of hands-on experience building high-performance systems, currently focused on improving data lake performance in the Amazon Redshift query optimizer. She brings a strong engineering foundation from Carnegie Mellon University and a track record of impactful internships at Amazon (Sponsored Ads and Global Robotics) where she cut ML pipeline runtime in half and reduced hardware costs by ~60% through optimized models. As a former TA across circuits, constructive logic, and databases, she pairs deep technical problem-solving with a talent for teaching and producing clear, student-focused materials. Her work spans production ML infrastructure, edge-device optimization, and large-scale system enhancements—demonstrating both low-level systems fluency and product-oriented thinking. Colleagues describe her as collaborative and analytical, able to translate research-grade ideas into practical, measurable improvements.
5 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School SouthSouth Brunswick High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (31)
authentication10
optimizer10
key-management10
trust10
credentials10
relational9
identity9
messaging9
end-to-end-encryption9
security9
enforcement9
kafka9
authorization9
encryption9
database9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CMU-313/fall23-nodebb-bugbusters
Sep 2023 - Oct 2023
fall23-nodebb-bugbusters created by GitHub Classroom
Contributions:13 PRs, 30 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
Sweetsuro/ockam
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Orchestrate end-to-end encryption, cryptographic identities, mutual authentication, and authorization policies between distributed applications – at massive scale.
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 5 days
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