Feb 2024 – Mar 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo · Amherst, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid

• Building controllable expertise selection interface using LACE model for reviewer paper assignment on Openreview with Sheshera Mysore and Andrew McCallum.

Feb 2023 – May 2023 · 3 mos · Amherst, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid

• Transformed Carbon Cast - a time-series forecasting system to preduct hourly carbon intensities, to make predictions on real-time data over 13 grid regions (7 in the US, 5 in Europe and 1 for Australia) under Diptyaroop Maji and Prof. Prashant Shenoy.

Jan 2023 – Sep 2023 · 8 mos · Amherst, Massachusetts, United States · Hybrid

• Engineering co-lead for the Alexa Prize Taskbot challenge under Prof. Hamed Zamani at the Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR) to build conversational agents for recipe and DIY tasks.
• Alexa Prize Taskbot Challenge is a global competition to create next-generation conversational AI experiences that delight customers by addressing their changing needs as they complete complex tasks.

Feb 2024 – May 2024 · 3 mos

• Self discover based style transfer for long form text with Gregory Druck.

May 2023 – Dec 2023 · 7 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid

• Whistler: Financial Anomaly Detection
• Cut financial anomaly detection runtime 50% by moving from S3 to DynamoDB for Amazon Device, saving 18,000 file creations.
• Migrated AWS Step Functions infrastructure from Console to AWS CDK leading to scalability and code reusability.
• Whistler Auditor: Centralized Cross-account Logging
• Accelerated failure tracking by 85% through the streamlined processing of 2k+ cross-account logs per month into Amazon Redshift.
• Custom Product Hierarchy: Hierarchical Relationship Linking
• Designing and building a property-graph based custom hierarchy data model for 8k+ Amazon ASINs using Amazon Neptune, enabling insight generation.

Jan 2022 – Sep 2022 · 8 mos

• Mentored two projects: Rocket.Chat ReactJS Full Stack Component and GitHub App.

May 2021 – Aug 2021 · 3 mos

• Built Poll App Mega Extensions at Rocket.Chat under mentors Ramkumar KB and Murtaza Patrawala.
• Continued work post-GSoC to release it on the Rocket.Chat App Marketplace. Currently Poll Plus has more than 1600 downloads across all Rocket.Chat servers.

Jul 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Skynet: Highly opinionated and curated set of Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Designed to act as a monorepo across multiple providers and environments and to provide a single source of truth for resources and configurations.
• Salient:
• Built to onboard 1300+ internal applications at Gojek.
• Used Atlantis CI to reduce 41 pipelines to single change based pipeline.
• Identifed $30,000 MRCs over unused resources during Skynet research.
• Transitioned from a contributor to backfill to the lead on the project.
• Skills: Terragrunt, GCP, Atlantis CI, Chef, GitLab.
• DeepThought: Cross-project, peered internal DNS infrastructure facilitated as code.
• Skills: DNS, DHCP, GCP.
• Cerebro: IP Address Management (IPAM) tool designed to empower network automation. Developed specifically to address the needs of network and infrastructure engineers.
• Salient:
• Extended Cerebro to be the DCIM source of truth.
• Manages 5000+ IP ranges and 200+ devices (router) for all teams across Gojek.
• Consumption via API and a custom built Terraform provider.
• Skills: Python, GCP, Terraform.

Jan 2021 – Jul 2021 · 6 mos

• Jointly managed all divisions at E-Cell IIIT Pune. Additionally headed Web Development and Corporate Relations divisions.

Dec 2020 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Active contributor to Opensource-Contribution-Leaderboard and Rocket.Chat.
• Maintainer for RC4Github and RC4Community. Built MemeBuddy - downloaded on 600+ Rocket.Chat servers.
• Contributions to Rocket.Chat
• https://github.com/search?q=author:RonLek+created:%3E=2020-11-20+org:RocketChat

Jun 2020 – Oct 2020 · 4 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

May 2020 – Nov 2020 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Kernel Platform Usability Team:
• Built an autocomplete feature now packaged within the internal application deployment CLI by default.
• Revamped the PaaS app deployment portal used by a multitude of teams that drove the MAU from 250 to 450+.
• Started ziggurat-web, the first open-sourced project of my team.

Mar 2020 – May 2020 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Interfacing with companies around the industry to facilitate student placements and internships at IIIT Pune.

Oct 2017 – Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India

• Started the biggest competitive coding competition of IIIT Pune - InfInITy. InfInITy has transcended from being held only for IIIT Pune students to currently being held globally every year with participants from 450+ Universities participating with more than 12000 submissions made annually.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019 · 1 mo · New Delhi Area, India

• Worked at Defence Terrain Research Laboratory (DTRL) at DRDO under Dr. Vivek Saxena (Scientist-F) to predict landslide occurrences from satellite imagery using deep networks. Used QGIS and gdal to work with raster images and .tiff files to extract features from geospatial data between Rishikesh (India) and Gangotri (India). Achieved an accuracy of 94% on the test dataset chosen with the model built.

Jun 2018 – Jul 2018 · 1 mo · Pune Area, India

• Worked with the Graphic and Intelligent Script Technology (GIST) team to build a NodeJs application to translate Government website contents from English to regional languages dynamically using 3 different services (Google Translate, Yandex, Bing). Implemented a web scraper to scrape contents off the website and feed it to the application. The extracted data along with the translated context were stored in a MongoDB database integrated into the application.