Nikhil Pawar

I design and build distributed backend systems, currently as a software engineer at Amazon Web Services.

Experience

Amazon Web Services

Seattle

Software Development Engineer II · Applied AI

Apr 2026 – now

Building the distributed backend and AI agents for a stealth product that helps teams and agents share context and move faster.

Software Development Engineer · End User Computing

Feb 2024 – Apr 2026

Built backend microservices and Android applications that let users securely stream Amazon WorkSpaces virtual desktops to AWS Thin Client devices.

Software Development Engineer Intern · Amazon Connect

May – Aug 2023

Built core frontend features for Connect Guides, the step-by-step workflows that walk contact-center agents through customer calls.

University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute

Los Angeles

Frontend Developer

May 2022 – May 2023

Built features for a biomedical research platform that helps medical researchers view and annotate high-resolution images in the browser.

Tata Consultancy Services

Mumbai

Software Engineer

Jun 2019 – Jun 2021

Built Java backend services and APIs for reliable, scalable data processing in enterprise workflows.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Southern California, Los Angeles · 2022 – 2023

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering

University of Mumbai, Mumbai · 2015 – 2019

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