Sep 2022 – Jan 2023 · 4 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Working with Prof. Miller and JP Morgan on adding MicroFedML protocol to the Flower federated learning framework. Worked at the intersection of cryptography, distributed systems and ML

Jun 2022 – Aug 2022 · 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Programming Systems Group, Uber Infrastructure
• Automating code review process with NLP and static analysis approaches to generate corrected code and find similar code edits
• Created data pipeline and dataset from scratch with Phabricator APIs, fine tuned CodeT5 transformer on created Uber dataset
• Devised static analysis approaches to validate code suggestions and detect bugs using Tree Sitter to compare method signatures

Nov 2020 – May 2021 · 6 mos

• Responsible for critical Traffic Light Control code - created RL agent and backend to reduce average vehicle stop time at a major 4-way intersection in an Indian city by 17% over CV based heuristics approach
• Extracted microservice and restructured backend architecture to guarantee valid states at software level and achieved zero downtime due to network failures down from previous average of 20 minutes per day per intersection
• Designed and implemented software interfaces for external hardware vendor on Raspberry Pi and setup health check systems for live monitoring of traffic lights in production
• Technologies: Python, Flask API, Redis, RabbitMQ, SUMO

Aug 2018 – Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore, India

• GetThere - an industry-standard corporate travel management tool
• Contributed a major feature to Uber’s Piranha Java to auto-delete stale code. Trained Sabre engineers and integrated into Jenkins to auto-delete 7000+ lines of dead code, saving 65 hours of developer time
• Devised and implemented multi-criteria hotel availability sorting in Sabre’s industry-standard corporate booking tool
• Enhanced policy engine to support airfare ranking of 1000s of fare options in real-time, creating flexible rule engine for customers
• Worked to move hotel platform from 1 million line Java monolith to service-oriented architecture, creating reusable Sabre API
• Created Spring Boot microservice to simulate the CRS (Computer Reservation System) for internal use, supporting upto 2 TPS load
• Took multiple full-stack features to production with changes across 3 services, working with Product and Architecture teams

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos · Bangalore, India

Jul 2016 – Jul 2016 · 0 mo · Bangalore, India

• HAL's Flight Test Centre which manufactures and tests helicopter prototypes in various stages of airworthiness certification
• Worked in the Design and Development Lab which develops devices to support helicopter testing
• Prototyped with Arduino Uno and ARM boards to develop a device to interface with a DAQ (Data Acquisition System) to retrieve & verify stored data