Vishak Bharadwaj

Operations Associate

State College, Pennsylvania, United States4 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

PhD candidate specializing in distributed data systems.
Engineered enterprise web crawler for large-scale data analytics.
Co-inventor of a patented crawling methodology.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech-focused Software Engineer with expertise in distributed systems and data ingestion.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsData SystemsScalable SystemsSoftware ArchitectureJavascriptDeep Learning

Other Skills

Big DataC++Computer VisionDatabaseDatabase InternalsExpressGraph MiningJavaPython (Programming Language)ReactSoftware DevelopmentTensorFlow

About

I am a PhD student at Penn State, specialising in distributed data systems, with a particular focus on Federated Query Processing. Previously, as a Software Engineer at PayPal, I engineered their enterprise web crawler, enabling large-scale data ingestion, management, and analytics across tens of millions of web pages.

Experience

Penn state university

Graduate Assistant

Aug 2025 – Present · 7 mos · State College, Pennsylvania, United States

TA: CMPSC 431W Database Management Systems

Paypal

3 roles

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Feb 2024 – Dec 2024 · 10 mos

Built and maintained high-scale data ingestion pipelines for PayPal’s Enterprise Web Crawler, processing tens of millions of diverse web pages and media resources daily into analytical data stores.
Co-Inventor of a patented novel directional crawling methodology. Subsequently, I led the ’CrawlAI’ project, which enabled the crawler platform to include Agentic Crawling capabilities.
U.S. Patent US12197516 'Guided Web Crawler for automated Identification and Verification of web
page resources’, Jan 2025
Engineered real-time crawl APIs, reducing platform experimentation and adaptation time from a few days to a few minutes.
Played a key role in the re-architecture of distributed data ingestion architecture, optimising network utilisation and reducing data acquisition latency by 55% across a large-scale distributed system. Contributed to Google Cloud migration, enhancing scalability.

Distributed SystemsData Systems

Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Scalable SystemsSoftware Architecture

Software Engineer Intern

Feb 2021 – Jul 2021 · 5 mos

Built a management portal for PayPal's Enterprise Web Crawler using React and Express

JavaScript

Samsung r&d institute india

2 roles

Software Engineer Intern

May 2020 – Jul 2020 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked with the Intelligent Keyboard team at SRIB for developing and optimizing Deep Learning models to enable Image Inpainting on mobile devices.

Deep LearningPython (Programming Language)

Samsung PRISM student

Aug 2019 – Jan 2020 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Collaborated with the On-Device AI team at Samsung Research Institute Bangalore to facilitate machine learning model training on edge devices using an On-Device Transfer Learning module.