Critical Thinking Is Fading. Here’s How You Can Reclaim It
Critical thinking is fading. Social media algorithms feed us whatever keeps us scrolling, and ever since short-form content took over…
I build and scale Amazon's shopping cart service.
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I’m a software engineer on Amazon’s Shopping Cart team, building the backend behind every cart for billions of customers in the US, Japan, Europe, and India. Anyone can build a cart. The hard part is keeping it fast, always available, and accurate, even through migrations, traffic spikes, and bot attacks.
Away from work, you’ll find me writing tech blogs, playing badminton, or lost in a video game.
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Amazon · Shopping Cart
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MS Computer Science
Coursework Web Technologies · Analysis of Algorithms · Foundations of AI · 3-D Graphics and Rendering · Advanced Mobile Devices and Game Consoles
University of Mumbai
BE Information Technology
Coursework Data Structures & Algorithm Analysis · Computer Graphics & VR · OOP · Image Processing · Web Programming
High school, Computer Science
Coursework C++ · Operating Systems · Data Structures · HTML · CSS · 8085 Microprocessors · Networking Technology · Microcontrollers · Assembly Language
Critical thinking is fading. Social media algorithms feed us whatever keeps us scrolling, and ever since short-form content took over…
Most software engineers recognize this phase. Your code isn’t working. You’re spending hours debugging. You’re trying multiple approaches…
AI should be used to accelerate your thinking, not replace it. You are critical in the very first step — Step 0: Thinking.
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