Prabhav Chawla Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, US

Plaid Network Foundations team

San Francisco, California, US

Link Returning User Experiences team

San Francisco, California, US

Link Returning User Experiences team

Miami, Florida, US

• Working on several mission-critical UIs, REST, gRPC, GraphQL microservices and Airflow jobs used by investment professionals to trade, manage risk and measure performance in equity markets across the world.
• Single-handedly overhauled an existing service used for Risk Arbitrage trading -- increased uptime from 95% to 99.9% by leveraging Kubernetes and Datadog monitoring, achieved x10 speed-up by optimizing SQL queries.
• Led the development of a new GraphQL service from scratch along with a declarative framework for performing authorization and constraint checking at the model level; onboarded new hires and interns onto the project.
• Awarded the org's Engineering Excellence award for commitment to code quality, reviews, and adopting best practices.

Atlanta, GA, US

• GTA for CS 4803/7643: Deep Learning course.

• Migrated existing codebase of the Public Connections Discovery team to use a cross-platform, server-rendered UI framework.
• Drove adoption from product teams across Facebook by improving the framework’s pagination and customization APIs.
• Wrote server-side code in Hack, E2E tests in Jest, and ran A/B experiments for incremental rollout to iOS, Android and FB Lite.

Atlanta, GA, US

• GTA for CS 4731/7632: Game AI course.
• Configured auto-graders for homework on Gradescope, converted legacy code to Python3, and fixed bugs in the game engine used in assignments. Answered student questions on Piazza, graded exams, and held weekly office.

• Initiated the development of a React Native mobile application which aimed to improve physical and mental well-being of a community by bringing people together with similar interests. Used TypeScript, React Navigation.
• Built clean and robust UI using designs provided by the UX team.
• Assisted in the development of backend code and infrastructure for the app.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Held tutoring sessions twice a week for a Linear Algebra class of 200 students.
• Typed questions in Latex and made them available to all students at http://tinyurl.com/1554plus
• Obtained a level 2 tutoring certification from CRLA (College Reading & Learning Association).

• Performed a full re-write of core Facebook Groups features using modern web technologies such as React Hooks, Code-Splitting and Concurrent Mode APIs, optimistic Relay mutations, GraphQL fragments, atomic CSS and.
• Worked cross-functionally with product designers to make generic implementations of a drag-and-drop list component, and a date range picker component with no external dependencies.

Atlanta, GA, US

• Investigated how intelligent agents can improvise in a VR environment with people using virtual props.
• Implemented, tuned and tested generative deep learning models like CVAEs in Keras and Tensorflow.
• Co-authored a paper titled “Affordance-based Generation of Pretend Object Interaction Variants For Human-Computer Improvisational Theater” that was accepted to ICCC 2019.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Worked in a SCRUM environment to develop a new release of Pindrop’s voice fraud detection application.
• Used React on the front-end, Ruby on Rails with a MySQL database on the backend and initiated the use of Cypress for E2E tests.
• Resolved over 30 JIRA tickets ranging from feature requests, to fixing QA reported bugs and long-standing tech debt.

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, US

• Designed an iOS app for Mylan’s office of the CIO to track key metrics of over 250 IT projects.
• Integrated the authentication process with ADFS, thus allowing users to log-in via company credentials.
• Utilized the Charts library to create interactive dashboards from project data fetched via SOAP calls.
• Debugged a C# application that created zone files for 150 domain names newly acquired by Mylan using the AWS Route 53 SDK for.NET

Atlanta, GA, US

• Improved user accessibility and UX for the open-source Runestone Interactive eBooks project.
• Revamped the platform’s audio tour feature using JavaScript and jQuery.
• Helped in creating custom key binding using the CodeMirror API to aid keyboard-dependent users.
• Developed practice exams for the AP Computer Science eBook, used by over 10,000 students.

B.S./M.S., Computer Science

High School