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New York, New York, United States

New York, NY, US

Modernizing insurance

South San Francisco, California, US

South San Francisco, California, US

South San Francisco, California, US

Mountain View, CA, US

Working on the Core Database and Services team – designing and building fast, cost-efficient, self-healing and scalable architectures to serve Quora's ever-growing global traffic and storage needs.- Containerized Quora's core asynchronous task worker architecture and migrated it to kubernetes- Implemented low-level read/write analysis for keys in Graphite.

Aurora is an enterprise-grade suite of APIs and an analytics platform for adding voice capability using AI, focused on simplicity and flexibility. We help businesses create and deploy their own voice user interfaces in just a few lines of code. We truly believe that voice is the future, and that its potential is yet to be unlocked.Our team focuses on.

South San Francisco, California, US

• I joined the Compute team for a three-month summer internship.
• I designed and implemented two fleet-wide automated systems to: o Headlessly cycle EC2 instances in an ASG (Python, AWS Lambda) o Periodically update EC2 instances with the latest compatible AMI built in Stripe’s.
• I prepared a formal 22-page benchmark report investigating Consul’s KV and service discovery performance based on various parameters (Python, Matplotib)

Los Angeles, California, US

UCLA DevX creates "moonshots" for UCLA – software projects to enhance the UCLA community. We recruit and put together 8 teams of 5-6 members (1 PM, varying number of frontend and backend developers) to work for 9 weekly sprints to complete a given project. At the end of the quarter, we host a community-wide demo.As CTO, I oversee all technical operations.

Los Angeles, CA, US

As Vice President, I manage and direct the largest student organization dedicated to computer science in the Los Angeles area. Over the last year, we've more than doubled our membership, built a portal for tracking members and attendance, solidified internal processes, improved the quality and turnout of all our events, and introduced vital changes to the.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Designed and built the entire frontend and backend of the new ACM Membership Portal (Node.js, Postgres, Redis, React, NGINX, Docker), with DB schemas for efficient lookup and update. Implemented optimizing strategies such as asset caching, asset minimization, and a custom cache layer in Redis to reduce server load times by up to 75%.The website currently.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Overhauled website, leading to a $25,000 donation (HTML, CSS, JS, PHP)
• Automated monotonous tasks and data analysis, saving weeks of time (Python)
• Applied image processing to count the number of cells and quantify variousfeatures in microscope images with over 90% accuracy (C++, OpenCV, Electron, HTML, CSS, AngularJS)

San Jose, CA, US

• As a software engineering intern, I worked on Security Services Exchange (SSE), a core product of Cisco's security business. SSE is a cloud platform to manage security policies, threat analysis, and telemetry.
• Drove the transition to containers with a custom service manager, resulting in a 30% higher resource utilization and faster development turnaround (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Node.js)
• Created a generic event-based workflow engine for services (Node.js)
• Re-implemented backend storage service using Redis and efficient data structuresto achieve 22x scalability and 60x faster queries (Golang, Redis)

Created a reliable and robust worker-based web scraper written in Node.js. Designed and implemented a Tomcat/Maven Java web server for a phishing-awareness promotional game that generated and displayed phishing emails and kept track of the user's results.Technologies applied: Node.js, Tomcat, Maven, Java, JPA, Javascript, AngularJS, PostgreSQL.

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

Created a complete online tutoring suite where tutors and students can interact in scheduled classrooms with fully implemented, custom-written whiteboard, chat, audio, video, screen-sharing, and slides.Technologies applied: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, socket.io, Node.js, MongoDB.

Responsible for the organization's technological aspects — designed the organization's website and an early, mockup version of the digital learning platform.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

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