AMAN / 2026Principal Distributed Systems Engineer / Ink Artist / Game Designer
Engineer by trade.
Artist by design.
I’m a principal distributed systems engineer with experience in database design, ranking algorithms, site reliability, and platform engineering. Across 13+ years, I’ve built and operated cloud-native systems in Go across AWS and GCP, with a focus on Kubernetes controllers, observability, and infrastructure automation, alongside parallel practices in visual art and game design.
amanpreet.dev@gmail.com ↗Practice
Systems
Distributed architecture, Go services, messaging, open-source tooling, and durable software.
Practice
Art
Ink drawings, character studies, strange machines, and darker imagined worlds.
Practice
Games
Systems, worlds, interaction, and the design of meaningful player choices.
Career / Selected record
Experience
Staff Software Engineer / Coupang
Multi-cluster reliability and CoupangBlueGreen →
- Reduced incident rates by approximately 20–35% and MTTR by 25–40% through timeouts, retries, circuit breaking, structured logging, and tracing.
- Built the CoupangBlueGreen Kubernetes controller and CRD to standardize blue-green delivery for Taiwan third-party applications.
- Reconciled Kubernetes resources and live traffic through Caddy’s admin API, establishing a production dependency later expanded toward South Korean data centers.
Principal Software Engineer / NBCUniversal
Content Adaptive Encoding at platform scale →
- Built a Go Kubernetes operator and CRD families that enabled conversion of the Peacock content library to Content Adaptive Encoding within months.
- Reduced bandwidth and encoding infrastructure costs while improving playback on older devices through adaptive bitrate and VMAF-driven workflows.
- Protected near-complete encodes from avoidable disruption and recovered unfinished FFmpeg chunks after Spot interruption across CPU and GPU capacity.
Senior Software Engineer, L5 / AWS
Service reliability tied to product outcomes
- Introduced service-mesh and autoscaling patterns on Fargate that improved request latency by up to 70%.
- Used tracing, anomaly detection, and signal correlation to reduce signup drop-offs from 45% to 15% and increase engagement by 25%.
- Created CloudWatch dashboards connecting operational signals to business impact, saving teams hours of investigation each week.
Senior Software Engineer / BGC Partners
Cloud-native delivery and the Solace driver
- Introduced Docker and Kubernetes deployment patterns for multi-tenant financial systems.
- Improved real-time message-delivery performance by 200% by open-sourcing a C++ Solace client driver for Go.
- Reduced onboarding time by 50% through standardized development environments and hands-on training for 25 interns and analysts.
Senior Software Engineer / BCG Digital Ventures
Production visibility for new ventures
- Joined as the first senior developer on the innovation team for a venture-backed healthcare startup with a $15M Series A.
- Led the redesign and front-end rearchitecture of the patient mobile experience and clinician portal in React.
- Led the first major A/B test and real-user monitoring program, improving support response time by 40% and conversion by 7.5%.
Senior Software Engineer / New York Stock Exchange
Lower latency, clearer operations
- Improved service-path latency by 40% and SLA response time by 32% by optimizing client-server contracts and critical request paths.
- Modernized legacy systems toward RESTful services with more predictable error handling and operational visibility.
- Reduced UI incidents through client telemetry, stronger session and authentication behavior, and safer rollout practices.
Software Engineer / American Express
Modernizing a high-traffic card platform
- Led the rearchitecture of a card-shopping platform serving 100,000 monthly requests, improving request latency by 70%.
- Modernized REST integrations alongside build and deployment tooling for a more maintainable delivery path.
- Standardized the build and release pipeline with Node and Webpack, improving repeatability across the team.
Software Engineer / Capgemini
Enterprise engineering foundations
- Delivered enterprise UI and service layers for GE Healthcare, Manulife, MetLife, and Swiss Re.
- Established reusable UI patterns, release checklists, and reliability instrumentation that made delivery more predictable.
- Supported production releases, monitoring, and operational response across multiple client engagements.