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Swagata Prateek

Swagata Prateek

Staff Software Engineer, Distributed Systems & Geospatial Infrastructure

Burnaby, BC, CA
+1-778-814-4366
English, Bangla

Background


About

About

12+ years building distributed systems and geospatial infrastructure. Founding team member of Amazon Location Service. 3 patents (2 issued, 1 pending).

Work Experience

Work Experience

  • Senior Software Engineer (Founding Team), Amazon Location Service, Amazon / Amazon Web Services

    Aug, 2019 - Present

    • Took Amazon Location Service from PR/FAQ to GA across 15+ AWS regions

    • Architected patented key-value geometry store for real-time geofencing, multipolygon support, and nearest-neighbor queries

    • Reduced geofence event latency by 90% (1.5s to 200ms), enabling $4M+ ARR at 6,000 TPS and 2.2B+ requests/year

    • Built address parsing model (BERT/DistilBERT) with 98.23% recall for postal certification

    • Led 25+ design reviews per quarter across Vancouver, SF, and Austin teams

    • Designed patent-pending retroactive event correction system for out-of-order geofence evaluation

    • Built and operationalized US address validation and CASS certification systems

  • Software Development Engineer, Payments, Amazon

    Jan, 2018 - Aug, 20191 year 7 months

    • Designed patented authentication federation enabling 3M customers to pay credit cards on Amazon.com

    • Introduced single-microservice-per-domain architecture pattern adopted as team standard

  • Co-Founder & CTO, GObd

    Nov, 2014 - Mar, 20172 years 4 months

    • Led 30-person team (firmware, backend, mobile, ops) building Bangladesh's first real-time traffic platform

    • Designed GPS tracking hardware and congestion-aware routing serving 100K+ users, 20M+ data points

    • Scaled platform to logistics/delivery (6,000 daily deliveries at peak)

  • Software Engineer, Vizrt

    Jul, 2013 - Dec, 20174 years 5 months

    • Built broadcast graphics and media asset systems for global newsrooms

    • Led data server migration from relational to high-performance graphics database

Skills

Skills

  • Distributed Systems

    Event-driven architecture

    Storage systems

    Latency optimization

    Consistency

  • Geospatial

    Geofencing

    S2/H3 indexing

    PostGIS

    Routing

    Valhalla

  • Cloud

    AWS

    DynamoDB

    Lambda

    EventBridge

    S3

  • ML/NLP

    BERT

    DistilBERT

    NER

    Model deployment

  • Languages

    Go

    Python

    Kotlin

    Rust

    C++

Education

Education

  • Computer Science, B.Sc., Khulna University of Engineering & Technology

    Jan, 2009 - Jan, 2013

Certificates

Certificates

  • Machine Learning, Stanford University

    Issued on: Jan 01, 2017

  • Generative AI with Large Language Models, DeepLearning.AI

    Issued on: Jan 01, 2023

Awards

Awards

  • Microsoft Most Valuable Professional , Microsoft

    Awarded on: Jan 01, 2014

Publications

Publications

  • Spatial search using key-value store (Patent), USPTO

    Published on: Jan 01, 2021

    US 20210406328A1, Issued

  • Ephemeral authorization tokens from partner tokens (Patent), USPTO

    Published on: Jan 01, 2025

    US12355746B1, Issued

  • Retroactive geofence events (Patent), USPTO

    Published on: Jan 01, 2023

    US 20250113160A1, Pending