Summary
Sheen Dudwadkar is a senior software engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems and user-facing product features. He has driven high-impact ad product work at Twitter—designing Unified Cards, scaling services to 100k–1M QPS, and reducing ad-format development time from months to weeks—and continued to lead backend efforts at Square and Lyft. Sheen combines deep systems design (DB schema migrations, multi-level caching) with product sensibility that improved CTRs and advertiser tooling. Recognized internally for grit and care, he has repeatedly taken ownership of thorny infrastructure and reporting bottlenecks to accelerate product launches. A University of Washington CS graduate, he brings a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to reliability and performance at scale. Notably, he has experience migrating legacy stacks and designing storage layers that enabled both massive scale and developer velocity.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science with Interdisciplinary Honors, Computer Science with Interdisciplinary Honors at University of Washington
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Interlake High School
English, Hindi, Kashmiri, Marathi, French