Ashwin Bhat Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Tech lead for Media Platform team, which powers Loom's video transcoding, instant editing, and streaming systems.- Designed system for real-time audio replacement in arbitrary sections of videos- Improved video player reliability from 97% to 99.7%, reduced startup time by 30%Also led design and implementation for a variety of core Loom systems:- Built first privacy system: generic ACL system for fine-grained object privacy, used initially for videos and later for folders and spaces- Overhauled GraphQL API, enabling code modularity and middleware abstractions for eliminating a common class of security vulnerabilities. Also introduced client-side GraphQL code generation for frontend type safety.- Rebuilt search infrastructure, enabling new functionality such as video transcript searchLoom was acquired by Atlassian in November 2023.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

(Acquired by Gtmhub in 2021: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/gtmhub-acquires-koan-projects-3x-growth-for-second-year-301472370.html)Lead engineer on a team of five. Full-stack product development, from back-end architecture to front-end feature development. Working in TypeScript with React, GraphQL, and Node.js.- Implemented several major user-facing features. Provided technical guidance and code review on others.- Introduced TypeScript to codebase, getting to 50% coverage of 200k LOC codebase in under a year- Introduced GraphQL to codebase- Designed and implemented graph database abstraction on top of DynamoDB (https://medium.com/developing-koan/modeling-graph-relationships-in-dynamodb-c06141612a70)- Moved company from weekly deployment cycle to multiple deployments a day, while significantly reducing hotfix frequency- Instrumented fine-grained alerting and performance monitoring across stack- Ran monthly technical paper club on engineering team- Conducted interviews from initial call to on-site for multiple team members

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Worked on Airbnb's developer infrastructure team, scaling the continuous integration and continuous delivery systems as the company grew from 300 to 600 engineers. - Introduced build caching and CI optimizations to reduce p95 Java project build times by 75% - Designed CD branch management system to cut incident response times in half

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Courtesy clerk means bag boy.This is the only job I was ever good at. I didn't get promoted to cashier though, because I failed the vegetables exam.