SDE II · Amazon Prime Video
Augustine Tharakan

Hello, World — I'm

Augustine
Tharakan

// Career

Experience

Amazon · Prime Video JUN 2021 — PRESENT · 4 yrs 10 mos
Full-time · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
SDE II APR 2023 — PRESENT · 3 yrs
  • Worked on Prime Video Ads project — built backend service enabling customers to subscribe and manage their Ad-free subscription across various client device types.
  • Designed and made code changes across multiple programming languages in Prime Video backend services for various project components.
  • Built aggressive auto-scaling to handle sudden traffic spikes — eliminating the need for manual intervention and reducing resource wastage during unexpected load.
  • Optimized L2 cache infrastructure by migrating to the latest EC2 generation and increasing instance count to reduce cache-miss impact during restarts.
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SDE I JUN 2021 — MAR 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos
  • Built a greenfield service from scratch for Prime free trial abuse prevention in India — API + pub-sub architecture to update free trial eligibility on card sign-up, integrated with the payment selection page.
  • Led device restriction enforcement for lower-tier plans in India: built the service, load-tested to 1M TPS, designed the release-downloads component, and shipped iOS app changes to surface device-limit error messages.
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Application Developer OCT 2020 — MAY 2021 · 8 mos
ThoughtWorks · Full-time
📍 Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
ConsultingFull StackAgile
Full Stack Developer DEC 2018 — SEP 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos
Project 35 · Part-time
📍 Remote
  • Developer at 35brands.com — a personalized product search engine for women's dresses; built the Django backend and frontend end-to-end.
  • Designed and implemented a CNN-based prediction engine to infer sleeve length, dress length, and neckline from product images using image processing techniques (skin detection, contour drawing).
  • Shipped 3 product iterations based on user feedback.
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Full Stack Developer Intern JUN 2019 — AUG 2019 · 3 mos
MiStay — India's Largest Hourly Hotels
📍 Bengaluru Area, India
  • Built a hotel room price comparison tool across online platforms using Google Script.
  • Implemented a "Hotels Nearby" feature using matrix factorization to surface similar hotels in adjacent locations.
  • Developed the Admin Dashboard for managing bookings and a Booking Voucher PDF delivery system via confirmation email.
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// Engineering

Hardware Projects

Line Following Robot
ROBOTICS

Line Following Robot

An autonomous robot using infrared sensors and feedback-controlled motors to track dark lines — built on Arduino with custom circuitry.

RC Car
ARDUINO

RC Car

Custom-built remote-controlled vehicle with Arduino-powered RF communication. Debuted at EXCEL 2016 during the first year of college.

Smart Light
IoT

Automatic Smart Light

IoT-driven ambient lighting that activates via LDR sensors when light levels drop — simple, effective, energy-aware automation.

// Software

Web Works

🌐

OSAT Webpage

Old Students' Association of Toc H — a full-featured site built with Django and deployed on DigitalOcean. A collaborative full-stack effort.

Visit Site
📊

Attendance Checker

Calculates exactly how many days you can be absent while staying above the required threshold — every college student's best friend.

Try It
📝

Simple Form

A lightweight web form experiment — one of many small projects built to explore frontend fundamentals and user input handling.

Open
// Capabilities

Skills & Proficiency

Languages
C++95%
C95%
Python80%
Java65%
Shell Scripting60%
Web & Frameworks
HTML / CSS80%
JavaScript55%
ReactJS50%
Django65%
PHP25%
// History

My Timeline

Born
30 APR 1998

The Beginning

Born in Kerala, India. Every great engineer has an origin story — this one starts here.

School
MARCH 2016

School Graduation

Graduated from Toc H Public School (LKG → 12th Std) — where curiosity was first cultivated.

College
AUGUST 2016

Model Engineering College

Joined MEC for B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering — where code became a superpower.

🏨
JUN 2019 — AUG 2019

Intern · MiStay

First industry role. Built a hotel price comparison tool, a nearby hotels feature using matrix factorization, and a booking voucher PDF delivery system.

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DEC 2018 — SEP 2020

Full Stack Dev · Project 35

Part-time during college. Built 35brands.com — a personalized dress search engine — including a CNN-based prediction engine for clothing attributes from images. Shipped 3 iterations.

PythonDjangoKerasCNN
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2020

Graduated — B.Tech CSE

Completed Computer Science & Engineering from Model Engineering College, Kochi.

⚙️
OCT 2020 — MAY 2021

Application Developer · ThoughtWorks

First full-time role. Joined as an Application Developer at one of the world's top technology consultancies, working out of Bengaluru.

ConsultingAgileFull Stack
🎬
JUN 2021

SDE I · Amazon Prime Video

Joined Amazon's Prime Video team. Built greenfield services for free trial abuse prevention and device restriction enforcement — load tested to 1M TPS.

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APR 2023 — PRESENT

SDE II · Amazon Prime Video

Promoted to SDE II. Working on Prime Video Ads — backend services for ad-free subscriptions, auto-scaling infrastructure, and L2 cache optimizations at global scale.

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