Hrishikesh Sawant

Software Engineer

Austin, Texas, United States4 yrs 6 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Increased distinct reel producers on Instagram by 3.5%
Automated site update process, reducing manual support hours by 75%
Developed full-stack applications using Python and React

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend and Full-Stack Developer with experience in Social Media applications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentFull-stack DevelopmentApi Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAndroidAndroid DevelopmentAutomationBashC (Programming Language)CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Data StructuresDeep LearningDjangoFlaskGitHTML

About

I am a CS grad student at Stony Brook University. I have 1+ years of experience as a Software Developer at Facebook and Acquia working in backend, full-stack and api development. I'm proficient in working with object oriented programming languages like python, C++, and I have a strong foundation in problem solving and data structures. SKILLS: Programming Languages: Python, C++, Java, Php, C. Frameworks and libraries: Django, Flask, Spark SQL, Hadoop, Symfony, Sklearn, Tensorflow, Numpy, Pandas Web Development: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, React, NodeJS Database: SQL, MongoDB, Google Firebase Developer Tools: Git, Docker, TravisCI, Agile, AWS, Android Studios

Experience

Oracle

Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · Hybrid

Regedge

Senior Associate

Mar 2023 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · New York City Metropolitan Area · On-site

Stony brook university

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2022 – Dec 2022 · 4 mos · Stony Brook, New York, United States

Instagram

Software Engineering intern

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

Worked with the reels inspiration team to develop features for increasing the production of reels on Instagram.
Developed backend for auto-created reels midcard feature which automatically creates reels from Instagram stories and highlights and provides it as a recommendation to the user in the reels viewer. This project increased distinct reel producers in the US by 3.5 percent
Created an admin application tool from scratch using Python, Django, and React to manage content related to auto created reels
Optimized Instagram Django server by using memoization and writing efficient code saving global CPU costs by 0.15 percent with $200k in terms of dollar wins.

PythonDjangoReactBackend DevelopmentOptimizationFull-Stack Development

Acquia

Associate Software Engineer

Sep 2020 – Aug 2021 · 11 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

Worked on backend development as a part of the automatic updater team.
Automated site update process for the customers and reduced the manual support hours by 75 percent
Developed APIs and worked on integrating the tool with third party analytics tools such as Sumologic and Domo for logging, monitoring and visualizing the performance of the product
Developed APIs to fetch and apply customer website update preferences during the automated update process

Backend DevelopmentAPI DevelopmentAutomation