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San Francisco, Us

Gen AI Startup in automating Request for Proposals (RFPs)

San Francisco, California, Us

- Professional Interviewer / Mentor for Interview prep - Help / train people for Coding, System Design, Behavioral Rounds for FANG / Big Tech Companies- Experience with 500+ total interview sessions on Interviewing.io platform

Boston, Ma, Us

A contract role focusing on the following:● Account Opening / Maintenance and MoneyMovement verticals which serve 300K+ users.● Design / prototyping of the chatbot service using OpenAI, RAG architecture.● Designed / Develop large-scale microservices using Javascript, Java, Python, Typescript, Nodejs.● Automation of Infrastructure using terraform, AWS, gitlab saving costs by ~40%.● Tech-Debt, Managed Incidents and performed 15+ RCAs.● Performed Reviews of Architecture and Code. ● Mentor and influence junior / mid-level Engineers.● Influence priorities and highlight risks during project planning. ● Recommend / enforce best practices for cross-team repos, Tests and CI/CD.Tools: EC2, S3, Javascript / Typescript, Java, MongoDB, Kafka, Jenkins, Liquibase, Python, Insomnia, Apache Nifi, ElasticSearch,TSOA, RBAC, OpenAI API, LLMs / SLMs, HuggingFace, Pinecone

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Worked full-time in the Bots on Demand (BOND-007) Team to build and deploy services / infra for artificial Bot participants in Google Meets and provide choreography API for these Bots. This helped Meet Team / Hardware clients of Meets to test Meet at scale, analyze performance and perform regression tests.Duties:- Design / develop services and features related to Bot actions and scheduling.- Helped with scaling of Bots from 15K bots to 150K bots.- Database schema design, caching and provisioning to transition from an in-memory state to persistence.- Improved metrics related to Hearbeat, Memory, Concurrency, Availability and Latency.- Oncall every 4 weeks to work on high priority issues / maintenance / incidents.- Mentor Junior engineers and be mentored by Staff Engineers.- Community Contributions to other code bases at Google (Android, Pixel, gmail, Meet) fixing tech debt, bugs and refactoring.Fun Fact: I have had the chance to approve Sergey Brin's pull-request.Technologies: Java, Internal Google App Framework (like spring boot), Monitor / Alerting, Junit, Python, Relational / No-SQL DB, Source Control System, Release / Rollout Pipeline, Borg, Colossus, Ganpati, Chubby, blaze, Sponge, Sandman, Buganizer, Critique, rosie, cider

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

I do the following:● Design and write micro-services / jobs to publish, ingest, aggregate and serve data.● Design pipelines to serve inferences from deployed ML models.● Train / Retrain / Tune Models, productionize researched ML work● learn and use ML / CV techniques and algorithms● Data preparation/cleaning for ML training ● Write tests ● Create Splunk / Prometheus / Grafana Alerts and Dashboards● Maintain Build / Release pipelines on Azure Devops.● Sprint Planning, Retro meetings and Grooming. ● Participate in Design RFCs(Request for Comments), RCAs (Root Cause Analysis).● Be on-call every 4 weeks or so, work on Tech-Debt / troubleshoot and fix issues. ● Perform Code Reviews everyday.● Mentor Junior Engineers.● Interview Senior and Staff level Candidates.● Answer / Ask questions on private StackOverflow.● Participate in a Bookclub aimed at Software Architecture / Distributed Systems and ML.Technologies:● Kafka, SQL (MSSQL on Azure), NO SQL (Azure Cosmos), Typescript, Nodejs, Azure Devops, Azure Data Studio, StatsD, Influxdb, instana, Grafana, Splunk, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Event Sourcing, ksql, Git, bash, Unix, VScode, gRPC, protbuf, cv2, TensorFlow, Keras, Python, Apache Kubeflow, Jupyter Notebook, TensorBoard, Datascience Libraries (numpy, pandas, sklearn, matplotlib etc), Minio (S3 API), Linkerd, istio, kfserving, GCP (VMs, notebook, storage, model training)

Seattle, Wa, Us

● Working in the Alexa Skills kit org (https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit) ● Engineer in the Runtime team that serves millions of Customers routing incoming Voice-Requests to appropriate Services and relaying the response back. 200 to 400 TPS on an average day.● Gathering Requirements, Design & Development of Scalable Services and fixing bugs in 2- Week Sprints.● Part of an On-Call rotation every few weeks, focusing on Operational maintenance, Tech-Debt, Customer facing issues and writing COEs if any.● Technologies: Java, Spring, Nodejs, javascript, AWS Lambda, S3, Cloudwatch, DynamoDB, JUnit & Mockito, Git and many Amazon Internal Build, Deployment & Monitoring tools.PS: I built a cute fun little skill on Alexa called the Parrot... ask me about it ;)

Austin, Texas, Us

Engineer in the Scope Management team of the Cloud Project Management software Oracle Prime (Primavera is its predecessor, the desktop application)● Worked on several Server side features & bugs.● Wrote unit tests and integration tests using JUNIT and Mockito and contributed to increase of code coverage from around 40% to 95% in the areas I touched.● Improved performance (by an order of magnitude in some cases), utilization and availability of the services● Maintained server/client REST contract and followed Agile methodology.● Contributed in content for internal wiki. ● Extensively used GIT to work with and maintain various development branches.● Tools and Technologies used: Jersey (RESTful enpoints), Spring, Eclipselink (JPA), SQL, GIT, Jackson (JSON serialization and deserialization), JUnit and Mockito, ChromeDevTools, Javascript & Jquery, Ant, Jenkins, Weblogic, JIRA, EclEmma (code coverage) for Eclipse, SmartBear for code review.

Rochester, Ny, Us

● Research Assistant with Prof. Zack Butler, RIT: ● Worked on Corobotics project in the CS R&D Lab. ● Used the ROS (Robot Operating System) library to develop application on the robot. Enhanced its UI and logging using libraries in Python, C++.● Developed and tested the software for the cameras on robot's sides to route and process QR codes.●Tested and made minor tweaks to the routing logic which used A* search.● A grader for C++ course.

Mountain View, California, Us

Worked in the Consumer Financial Services Platform team on EFile Archives using Java, Maven, Splunk, Junit.

Boston, Ma, Us

● Worked in the Mollom team (A Content Moderation service on top of Drupal/Joomla/Wordpres blog/site).● Developed a robust and flexible system to send templated and automatedemails to 1000's of users of Mollom, giving them weekly/monthly stats of moderated content (spam and unwanted content) on their website.● Technologies used: JAX-RS (Jersey), JPA (EclipseLink), Velocity Engine, Mandrill (SMTP API), PHP, Twig and Google's Image charts REST api.● Also, worked on a mini project to detect correlation between types of spam and types of users,.using Cassandra and in-house map/reduce framework.

Rochester, Ny, Us

● Graduate Research Assistant for Prof. Zack Butler, RIT: ● Worked on Corobotics project in the CS R&D Lab. ● Used the ROS (Robot Operating System) library to develop application on the robot. Enhanced its UI and logging using libraries in Python, C++.● Learned about and tested the use of cameras on robot's sides to route and process QR codes.●Tested and made minor tweaks to its already developed routing logic which used A* search.

● Associate Developer responsible for Services and UI enhancement of the company's product “cOS” (Clinical Operating System). ● Learned about the team's development process while working on frontend and backend services using the following tools and languages: Java, XMLBeans, ColdFusion, HTML, Javascript, SVN, BugZilla, Xpath, Ajax, JSON. ● Also worked on improving a Windows widget to monitor stats from a remote server.

o Designed & developed plugins for PathVisio (an editor for biological pathways).o Developed Validator plugin to validate pathways based on rules written in Schematron or Groovy in Summer’11.o Technologies used: Java, Swing, Groovy, Saxon, XSLT, XPath. XML, SVN, ANT, Saxon. o Worked on mini-features and patches before the project start.o Coauthored a Bioinformatics paper with the mentors in the project about the Validator plugin. Mentors: Mr.Augustin Luna and Dr.Martijn P. van Iersel

Paris, Paris, Fr

● Learned about game development on the J2ME platform.● Worked on bug fixes and porting of mobile games on the J2ME platform.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, In

● Learned about iPhone Applications development using Objective-C. ● Worked on development of an app called Surya Namaskar (on AppStore).

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electronics And Communications Engineering