Suryank Tiwari

New Delhi · +91-9654123230 · suryanktiwari@gmail.com

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon building backend and AI systems at scale.

I specialize in distributed backend architecture on AWS and GenAI feature development, including retrieval-augmented generation, agentic AI integrations, and LLM evaluation pipelines.

M.Tech in Artificial Intelligence, IIIT Delhi. B.Tech in Computer Science, MSIT, GGSIPU.

Experience

Software Development Engineer II

Amazon · Kindle
  • Architect backend and AI systems for Kindle at scale — retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) platforms and enterprise AI agent integrations via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tools.
  • Design distributed, event-driven backend services on AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS/EventBridge) powering GenAI features across multiple marketplaces.
  • Own LLM evaluation methodology for RAG and generative features — benchmarking retrieval and generation quality
  • Lead a small engineering team delivering enterprise-grade GenAI features with multi-tenant data isolation and access controls, from architecture through production launch.
  • Drive cloud cost and performance optimization for backend services on AWS, and apply agentic AI to automate internal operational workflows.
July 2023 - Present

Software Development Engineer

Amazon · Physical Stores
  • Built systems to detect time-sensitive inventory issues and dynamically reassign related operational tasks, reducing waste across large-scale retail operations.
  • Optimized inventory audit workflows by integrating with adjacent systems and eliminating a redundant manual input step, reducing audit workload for frontline retail teams.
  • Built a labor-duration override system letting store managers correct mis-assigned associate work time, using event-stream processing to reconcile original and corrected durations and keep site-level labor reporting accurate.
  • Designed automated exception-handling logic for highly-automated store environments, balancing scalability and consistency.
  • Built tooling to streamline bulk data operations across many retail locations.
August 2021 - June 2023

Software Development Engineer Intern

Amazon · Physical Stores Tech
  • Enhanced backend services to manage time-sensitive inventory tasks in real time, improving operational efficiency and safety.
  • Localized associate-facing tools for usability across global markets.
January 2021 - July 2021

Advanced Programming Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi

Teaching assistant for the course CSE-201 at IIITD

August 2020 - November 2020

Data Structures and Algorithms Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi

Teaching assistant for the course CSE-102 at IIITD. Involved in taking tutorials, conducting labs and grading.

January 2020 - May 2020

Multivariate Calculus Teaching Assistant

IIIT Delhi

Teaching assistant for the course MTH-203 at IIITD. Involved in taking tutorials and grading.

August 2019 - December 2019

Game Developer

Bizarre Game Studios

Developed games using Unity3d, Blender and Photoshop.

January 2017 - March 2018

Projects

Analysis of Indian Railway Network

Guide: Dr. Ganesh Bagler, IIITD; Language: Python
Github

Analyzed the Indian Railway Network and drew inferences out of it. Constructed a graph subquerying and visualization system.

Jan 2021 – May 2020

Author Identification using Text Snippets

Guide: Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty, IIITD; Language: Python
Github

Performed Author identification given multiple short text snippets via using stylometric and lexicographical features. Crawled and generated a dataset for the said problem as well.

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020

Deep RL for Stock Price Prediction

Guide: Dr. Sanjit Krishnan Kaul, IIITD; Language: Python
Github

Created an automated trading model for guidance in a stock market setting. The aim is to maximize the profit given the state of the stock prices and a brief history.

Aug 2020 – Dec 2020

Music Genre Classification

Guide: Dr. A.V. Subramanyam, IIITD; Language: Python
Github

Dealing with various machine learning challenges associated with the classification of musical genres. A final accuracy of 88.4% achieved on ten genre classification with sample length manipulation./

Jan 2020 – May 2020

Structured Recipe from unstructured corpus

Guide: Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty, IIITD; Language: Python
Github

Deriving a structured recipe from an unstructured corpus. Building a Knowledge Graph of the structure obtained. Extraction of inferences from the KG and building a querying system that prints subgraphs. It ranked #3 best project out of 47 projects.

Jan 2020 – May 2020

Single Image Super-Resolution using Bayesian Networks

Guide: Dr. Anubha Gupta, IIITD; Language: Python

Using a Bayesian Network guided approach to mapping overlapping high resolution and low-resolution image patches. Processing the patches to form a super-resolved image.

Jan 2020 – May 2020

Breaking Ciphers with Genetic Algorithms

Guide: Dr. Mayank Vatsa, IIITD; Language: Python
Github

Cracked simple symmetric ciphers in Python using Evolutionary Algorithms. Cipher keys found in vast search spaces using genetic and memetic learning.

Aug 2019 – Nov 2019

Artlet - Android App

Guide: Dr. Pushpendra Singh, IIITD; Tools: Android Studio
Github

Development of a user-driven multi-content sharing and reading social platform. In-app support for reading and publishing comics, manga, and stories.

Aug 2019 – Nov 2019

Hot n Cold - Android Game

Tools: Unity3d & Photoshop
PlayStore   Github

Development of a hyper-casual game in Unity3D. Currently published on Google Play Store.

July 2017 – July 2018

Pong Maniac - Android Game

Tools: Unity3d, Blender & Photoshop
PlayStore   Trailer   Github

Development of a Pong and Block-breaker based modern 3d approach using Unity. Currently published on Google Play Store.

December 2018 – January 2019

Ecosystem Simulator

Language: Python
Github

Simulated various Biotic and Abiotic cycles in a closed Ecosystem in Python along with visualizing and warehousing cycle data.

September 2017 - December 2017

Dodo vs Dinosaur - Android Game

Tools: Unity3d, Blender & Photoshop
PlayStore   Github

Development of a challenging gameplay oriented mobile game. Currently published on Google Play Store.

July 2017 - July 2017

Education

Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology

Master of Technology
Computer Science and Engineering with specialization in Artificial Intelligence

CGPA: 8.00

July 2019 - July 2021

Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology, GGSIPU

Bachelor of Technology
Computer Science and Engineering

Percentage: 78.8

August 2014 - July 2018

Jindal Public School School

12th Standard, Science Stream

Percentage: 82.4

April 2013 - March 2014

Jindal Public School School

10th Standard

CGPA : 9.2

April 2011 - March 2012

Skills

Artificial Intelligence
  • RAG Systems
  • Prompt Engineering
  • MCP Servers
  • Agentic AI
  • Spec Driven Development

AWS
  • Lambda, Step Functions
  • Bedrock, Agentcore
  • S3, DynamoDB, Timestream, AOSS
  • SQS, Kinesis, EventBridge, CloudWatch

Programming Languages
  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript, TypeScript, React
  • C++ & C

Tools
  • Claude Code, Kiro (CLI & IDE), Cline, Amazon Q
  • Git
  • Android Studio, Unity3D

Interests

I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies, novel series & television shows, I am an aspiring poet, and I spend a large amount of my free time playing strategy games like chess.