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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, the main time-series database used at Quora, and created metrics visualizations that engineers could use to debug hot keys- Designed and implemented a local apt repository, speeding up CI builds by up to 10x and increasing reliability.

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 creating the best experience for developers, businesses, and the end users that use our VUIs. Our APIs are simple and straight-forward and our SDKs handle every minute detail so you don't have to. Our platform encapsulates every aspect of a VUI – from speech recognition, understanding, and synthesis to contextual management and slot filling.

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 Jenkins pipeline (Python, Ruby, Kubecron, AWS Lambda)• 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, advise teams on technical and design choices and implementations, and prepare workshops to cover intermediate and advanced software development topics (such as architecture design, containerization, database theory, deployment practices, and more).Last year's projects:Bruin Scope – Glassdoor for UCLA (company reviews, interview prep, etc.)Bruin Scan – Machine-learning based personal class recommenderBruin Academy – A mentorship and learning platform for UCLA studentsBruin Speak – a petition platform (like Change.org) for UCLALoop – an innovative way to trade textbooks by forming "trade loops"Membership Portal – a customizable platform for clubs to "gamify" event attendance

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 CS curriculum at UCLA.

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 supports about 1000 members with frequent and daily usage.

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 processing for all on-premise devices.• 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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