Experience
Teaching Assistant
Aug 2025 - PresentUniversity of Maryland
College Park, USA- Assisting Dr. Bharti Motwani in designing projects on HDFS, Apache Spark, Neo4j, and MapReduce concepts under Cloud Computing course.
- Guiding a cohort of 60+ students through advanced technical concepts during office hours, offering support on implementation challenges related to big data processing.
Student Advisor
May 2025 - PresentUniversity of Maryland
College Park, USA- Processed large-scale student application datasets using Python, automating data validation, award allocation workflows, and email lists with high accuracy and efficiency.
- Led engagement operations for global programs, coordinating across faculty, international partner universities, and students to facilitate 300+ study abroad applications.
Software Engineering Intern
May 2025 - Aug 2025Horizon World Salon
New York, NY- Implemented an email outreach system (Puppeteer scraper + personalized sends), increasing speaker reach by 200%.
- Deployed containerized application on AWS S3 and EC2 via GitHub Actions CI/CD, with Jest tests and CloudWatch monitoring.
- Integrated an AI-driven algorithm to recommend speakers by event theme, improving match accuracy by 40%.
Research Assistant
Jan 2025 - May 2025University of Maryland
College Park, USA- Assisted Prof. Anil K. Gupta in developing an LLM classifier to detect AI skills in job postings, benchmarked against traditional ML and few-/zero-shot models.
Software Engineer
Aug 2023 - Apr 2024DWD Merchant Assoc.
Bangalore, India- Built a lightweight POS & inventory system with real-time reconciliation, improving sales accuracy across 200+ transactions/day.
- Automated vendor reporting via Python scripts to trigger daily summaries, reducing manual operations by 60%.
Software Development Engineer 1
Mar 2021 - Apr 2023Amazon
Bangalore, India- Integrated auth-enabled Spring Boot APIs with downstream services; added caching & query optimizations to reduce response time by 30%.
- Developed automated ticketing & alerting with AWS CloudWatch and Lambda, improving SLA compliance by 15%.
- Built merchant dashboards in AWS QuickSight with an Angular UI, enabling real-time insights for 100+ merchants.
- Designed DynamoDB schemas and data-migration scripts to power 50+ monthly merchant onboardings.
- Led a team of 12 to build an internal wiki, cutting new-hire onboarding time by 25%.
- Conducted code/design reviews, on-call debugging of production issues and performance tuning, ensuring reliability of distributed systems.
Software Engineer
Jan 2020 - Feb 2021Delvit Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore, India- Architected modular microservices for payment management with React Router & Redux, reducing page load times by 20%.
- Built SQL/BigQuery workflows for anomaly detection and root-cause analysis on 1M+ rows, surfacing funnel drop-offs.
- Collaborated with 3 cross-functional teams to migrate analytics tooling from GCP to AWS, reducing extraction latency by 30%.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams during the acquisition process to integrate analytical applications into the AWS cloud, streamlining data consolidation
- Developed 30+ User interface screens using React.js and JavaScript and 20+ custom REST APIs on Flask Framework, hosted on Google Cloud for the company’s self-checkout project.
- Integrated behavioral analytics via Google Analytics to uncover engagement patterns, segment users, and inform data-backed marketing interventions.