Ankit Garg Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Working as a software engineer with AWS EC2: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/Currently working to ensure EC2 can meet the demand for leading Generative AI uses cases. Ref: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/amazon-plans-ai-supercomputer-6459025/1) Early 2023: As part of public and insider threat detection team, developed features to detect and report any anomalies or unauthorized access.2) Worked on developing a service which finds vulnerabilities in code packages required to support our vast EC2 fleet and make sure they are properly patched.3) Designed a data auditing system which can notify even if one of the 7 million documents has gone stale or missing. This plays a crucial role to ensure that we always have up to date information about our AWS EC2 fleet.4) Designed and developed features to ensure our millions of EC2 instances across globe are always patched with latest software and available to our customers. This is a very crucial operation and is done carefully to avoid any outages. Tech Stack: Kotlin (JAVA), Step Functions, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB and various other compute and storage services.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

As part of Nvidia's internal cloud team helped support in-house cloud based development.1) Designed and developed internal service portal for customer care and finance team. The portal allows users to lookup customer and order details and perform actions on the same.2) Designed UI w.r.t. to internal design language in React over next.js framework. Packaged application into docker container and oversaw deployment in dev, stage and production environment.Front-end Technologies: Next.js, React.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked with EC2 proactive security team where we identify potential threats and develop systems to safeguard the EC2 network.Project Details - Internal.Tech Stack: Python, AWS Native: Lambda, AWS CDK, DynamoDB, S3, IAM.

College Station, Tx, Us

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Spring 2022 - CSCE-421 (Machine Learning) under Dr. Yoonsuck Choe.------------------------------------------Graduate Teaching Assistant for Fall 2021 - CSCE-412 (Cloud Computing) under Prof. Robert Lightfoot.Managing a 400 level class for hundred students, by:1) Building 3 individual projects for the course covering virtualisation, securely hosting websites in the cloud and CI/CD.2) TA Office hours to clear all and any cloud computing related doubts.3) Augmenting class lectures with my experience in cloud computing by connecting course content with real life examples.

College Station, Tx, Us

Student Assistant for Machine Learning course (CSCE 421) under Dr. Yoonsuck Choe (Director, Brain Networks Laboratory).https://people.engr.tamu.edu/choe/choe/courses/21spring/421/index.html

Seattle, Wa, Us

1) Developed “Amazon Elasticsearch Advisory” backend to evaluate shortcomings of currently deployed clusters in order to prevent downtime and improve cluster performance up to 30%.2) Supervised 100+ enterprise customers to develop secure, scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-performance infrastructure.3) Collaborated closely with Product, Design and other Engineering teams to help build new features for various cloud services.4) As a subject matter expert, reduced Amazon Elasticsearch service cost by 70% for an enterprise client by re-architecting data strategy with respect to storage selection, best practices and application requirements.

Seattle, Wa, Us

1) Redshift On-Demand Module (https://bit.ly/onDemandRedshift)Designed and developed “Redshift On-Demand” a utility to help customers automate cluster backup and restore with help of cloud services like CloudFormation and Lambda service (serverless architecture), reducing operational costs by 60%.2) Authored 20 internal and public facing technical articles to increase adoption of AWS and support case deflection worth over $10,000 USD and counting.3) Mentored 8 new hires, conducted training, technical interviews and led Infrastructure planning to scale for peak usage.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Designing and Building Highly Available, Fault Tolerant and Scalable solutions on AWS infrastructure using native AWS services, third-party and open-source technologies for AWS Enterprise Customers.Responsible for troubleshooting issues for customers but also escalated internal issues regarding service architecture, performance issues, edge cases, large scale events and more.Furthermore, apart the core work above, I conduct trainings and technical interviews.Resolving customers issues based on cloud infrastructure and helping them out to build Analytical solutions to make their work easier. Also helping them to build cost effective models for their use cases. Work closely with them and help them improve their architecture and technology stack and troubleshoot issues that occur in their infrastructure.Building solution with Elasticsearch to help the customers to search for the relevant information. Basically, when the customer opens a case so the search for relevant document will start as soon as he starts typing for his problem.Dive Deep Hands on experience with Elasticsearch, Redshift, S3, EC2, VPC, Lambda.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Designed a real-time analytical system to identify displeased AWS customers by performing sentiment analysis on tweets.Utilized Kinesis Firehose for streaming data to S3 cloud storage and Amazon Comprehend service for analysis.

Seattle, Wa, Us

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Vellore, Tamil Nadu, In

Worked on a project to assist blind people to navigate and identify obstacles in-front of them to avoid collisions. Helping them in day-to-day activities by giving them audio feed of the critical information in their surroundings with the help of technologies like image processing, natural language processing.

Served as a Organizer for Design​ committee in Gravitas 2017 - An International Technical Carnival​, held at VIT University, Vellore.https://gravitas.vit.ac.in/

Rupnagar, Punjab, In

Image Processing and Artificial Intelligence(CNN).

Vellore, Tamil Nadu, In

Had a privilege of wearing several hats as a member of the college club - VIT Film Society. I served as Graphic Designer, Short Film Editor and Post Production Manager.

Puducherry, Puducherry, In

Teaching school students of 6th and 7th standard their curriculum subjects..

Vellore, Tamil Nadu, In

Served as a Coordinator for Design​ committee in Riviera 2017 - An International Sports and Cultural Carnival​, held at VIT University, Vellore.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science

High School, Science

High School, Science