Rucha Gharpure is a SDE @ AWS at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Colleagues describe her as "I had the pleasure of working with Rucha during her fall and spring internship at Synthio. She worked on development items such as String Distance proof of concepts that were used for Name Matching and custom weighted scoring algorithms to increase accuracy of the Name Matching services. She also researched various Machine Learning algorithms for our Data Platform. She is a quick learner and self driven. I would have hired her full time if I did not think that it would limit her… Show more" and "I had the pleasure of working with Rucha at Synthio. She reported to me as an intern during the summer of 2018. Rucha is a self-starter and requires very little hand-holding. We tried to expose her to as many different tasks and roles during that summer, and she excelled at every one. She built a self-service portal for our customer service team that allowed them to create FTP accounts and manage passwords. This project alone saved our dev team about 5 hours a week in work. She set up… Show more"