Namit Dadlani

Software Development Engineer

Namit
Dadlani.

Backend engineer with 6+ years of experience building distributed systems and APIs. Most recently a founding engineer on an AWS product that eliminated redundant engineering work at scale.

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$5–6M/yr engineering costs saved
200K hosts at peak scale
57% latency reduction

About

Who I am.

I'm a backend engineer based in Toronto with a focus on distributed systems, API design, and building software that operates reliably at scale.

Most recently at AWS, I was a founding engineer on a 4-person team that built a host provisioning platform from scratch - a backend service adopted by 5 AWS products, running across 38 regions and supporting ~200K hosts at peak. The work spanned API design, event-driven architecture, encryption, and cross-functional delivery.

Before AWS, I built backend services for a Medicaid eligibility system serving 1.6M+ citizens at Deloitte, where I learned to navigate complex systems, debug deep, and ship carefully.

I'm currently looking for my next role - ideally somewhere with hard problems, strong engineering culture, and room to grow.

Experience

Where I've worked.

Software Development Engineer Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sep 2022 – Apr 2026
  • Founding engineer on a 4-person team that built a Host Provisioning Service from scratch, adopted by 5 AWS services across 38 regions, supporting ~200K hosts at peak scale and eliminating the need for ~25 dedicated engineers across customer teams (~$5–6M/year in avoided headcount).
  • Designed and built CRUD APIs for compute, networking, and storage resources (EC2, EBS, VPC, ENI), backed by an event-driven orchestration system using DynamoDB Streams, Step Functions, and Lambda.
  • Reduced host provisioning latency by ~57% by building efficient systems to eliminate slow start bottlenecks and implementing exponential backoff retry logic to handle throttling.
  • Owned end-to-end design and implementation of customer-managed key (CMK) encryption for hosted volumes, consulted with AWS KMS and security teams, co-ordinated security review to enabled customer teams to serve government and enterprise clients.
  • Extended the Host Creation API with snapshot-based recovery, allowing customer services to restore hosts from prior state and improving system resilience across failure scenarios.
  • Led the service launch into AWS GovCloud as the sole engineer responsible for all code changes, cross-functional coordination, and compliance adaptations for regulated environments.
  • Onboarded an 18-person team as the founding engineer, creating documentation, running knowledge transfer sessions, and supporting their on-call rotations to enable a zero-impact production handover.
Java EC2 EBS VPC ENI DynamoDB Streams Step Functions Lambda KMS
IT Developer Co-op Canada Revenue Agency
May 2022 – Aug 2022
  • Contributed to a bilingual (English and French) email notification system serving 1M+ taxpayers, developing backend modules and REST APIs.
  • Built full-stack features across a Java backend and Angular frontend, picking up Angular independently during the term and writing spec-based unit tests for frontend modules.
Java Angular REST APIs
Technology Analyst Deloitte Consulting
Oct 2018 – May 2021
  • Developed and maintained backend services in Java for the State of Louisiana's Medicaid Eligibility Determination system, serving 1.6M+ citizens, implementing policy-driven updates and new features.
  • Diagnosed and resolved critical eligibility bugs in an IBM ODM rules engine, including incorrect household income calculations that were wrongly classifying low-income citizens as ineligible for free Medicaid coverage.
  • Optimized MySQL queries by reducing unnecessary column joins and adding indexes, cutting eligibility decision time by 17%.
  • Contributed to batch processing jobs in Java that handled ~360K citizen records per year, covering benefit updates, expiry-based terminations, and co-pay claim processing.
  • Built a Selenium test suite automating end-to-end sanity testing across 5 Medicaid program scenarios, reducing validation time from 80 minutes to 15 minutes per build cycle (81% reduction).
Java MySQL IBM ODM Batch Processing Selenium

Education

Where I studied.

Master of Applied Computer Science Dalhousie University
2021 – 2022
Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering University of Mumbai
2014 – 2018

Lately

What I've been saying.

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An AI-enabled mirror roasted me for my outfit 😅

This week I've been at Toronto Tech Week, catching some of the events around the city.

Shopify hosted an engineer focused event yesterday, good sessions, good people, good energy. There were 4 sessions, this is what they covered:

UCP -> An open protocol for agentic commerce. Way more token efficient than traditional web scraping agents.

SimGym -> AI that simulates shopper behaviour. The real challenge is decoding the human behaviour. This removes that bottleneck for merchants and their AI testing.

River AI + Monorepo -> An internal tool that lives in Slack, writes code, raises PRs, fixes bugs on its own. The part about making agent sessions durable was genuinely interesting.

Future of Quantum Computing -> Farhan Thawar in conversation with Christian Weedbrook, CEO of Xanadu. Photonic quantum computing, what's coming, and why cryptography should be paying attention. See more...

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Attended DevTools Toronto's Demo Night on Monday, this was also part of Toronto Tech Week.

For context, OpenCode had its first ever public demo at this same event last year, presented by Jay V. It now has 167k stars on GitHub. Says a lot about the kind of ideas that come out of this room.

Here's what was on the night:

Polarity - a QA agent that self improves over time. Runs evaluations inside real sandboxed environments, not mocks.

Superuser, Inc. lets you build and deploy AI agents directly into your team chat. Tools are just serverless functions, shareable and MCP compatible. Basically an arsenal of agents working and chatting with you.

Also on the night: Traces, Tidra, Code Pathfinder, and DocsAlot.

Oh and the view wasn't bad either 👇 See more...

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Not every Toronto Tech Week event was about code. This one was about fear, greed and regret.

Attended Finliti's Game of Gains, a board game about investing built around the emotions that actually drive market decisions. They've even turned them into characters, Regretta, FOMO'd, Tracy Complacency, etc.

Played multiple rounds and it holds up. The scenarios mirror real market behaviour, bull runs, downturns, behavioral traps. If you've ever panic sold or held too long, you'll recognize yourself in this game.

What got me thinking as an engineer is how well this translates to a mobile app. The emotional mechanics, character progression, real time market scenarios, there's a lot to build there. Had a good chat with Jennifer Schell about exactly that, their mobile platform is in the works.

Fun event, left thinking about it more than I expected. See more...

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