Shahid Ansari
About Shahid Ansari
Shahid Ansari is a Software Development Engineer III at Expedia Group in Gurugram, Haryana, India, with a background in software engineering from Paytm and Amdocs.
Current Position at Expedia Group
Shahid Ansari is currently employed at Expedia Group as a Software Development Engineer III. He has been working in this role since 2020. His work is based in Gurugram, Haryana, India. In this capacity, Shahid has contributed to various key projects, including migrating over 25 jobs from an internal tool to Airflow, significantly reducing support issues, and playing a key role in the addition of a new Line of Business (Flights) to Expedia's Competitive Measure.
Previous Experience at Paytm and Amdocs
Before joining Expedia Group, Shahid Ansari worked at Paytm as a Software Engineer I for a brief period in 2020 in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. Prior to that, he served as an Associate Software Developer at Amdocs from 2018 to 2020 in Pune Area, India. His experience at these firms provided him with a solid foundation in software development and engineering practices.
Educational Background
Shahid Ansari graduated from Delhi Technological University with a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Engineering, which he obtained from 2014 to 2018. Before his university education, he attended SB DAV Public School where he studied Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics and completed his 12th grade. Additionally, he completed his 10th grade at St. Michael's High School.
Key Projects and Initiatives
During his tenure at Expedia Group, Shahid Ansari initiated a $300,000 cost-saving project by developing an internal kstream app capable of processing 5,000 messages per second. He also improved a Spark job's processing speed by 33%, reducing the time from 9 hours to 6 hours and cutting costs from $4,000 to $2,000 per request. Shahid led the development of a business-critical feature with a potential revenue impact of $21 million, involving codebase refactoring into a common library.
Cost-saving Contributions
Shahid Ansari has made significant contributions to cost-saving initiatives at his current and past workplaces. His projects have resulted in annual savings of approximately $50,000 to $60,000. He also developed a testing pipeline for data quality and reporting using Spark, S3, Hive, NodeJS, Elasticsearch, and Kibana, further showcasing his skills in optimizing operations and reducing costs.