Gagan Ajjikuttira

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States5 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building AI-driven recruitment solutions.
  • Proven track record in full-stack development.
  • Award-winning hackathon participant with innovative solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Full-Stack Developer with expertise in AI and Machine Learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningData IntegrationAiObservabilityWeb DevelopmentFull-stack DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentGraphql Development

Other Skills

C++PythonJavaScriptMonitoringTypeScriptReactVueJSData VisualizationFlaskReactJSElectronGraphQLEvent ManagementPHPjQuery

Experience

5 yrs
Total Experience
9 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineer - Ads ML Infra

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States · Hybrid

  • Building debugging agents for the ranking AI stack
C++PythonMachine Learning

Eightfold

Software Engineer - Data & AI platform Integrations

Mar 2024Jul 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States · Hybrid

  • My focus is on scaling, optimizing, and extending data integrations from external systems like Applicant Tracking Systems, HRIS, and Learning Management Systems. The team continually enhances data ingestion and monitoring processes while developing a platform console that enables solution architects to customize configurations for new customers.
  • In the recent past, I've been contributing to the development of Eightfold’s next-generation AI products, like the AI Recruiter and AI Voice Screening Agents, building them from the ground up to enhance recruitment workflows and candidate evaluation.
  • As Eightfold grows, the platform continues to power AI-driven solutions in talent acquisition, management, experience, and analytics.
Data IntegrationAIPythonJavaScript

Brembo s.p.a.

Winner - Brembo Hackathon

Oct 2023Oct 2023 · 0 mo · Sunnyvale, California, United States · On-site

  • Leveraged Generative AI and classic ML techniques to augment existing data by deriving practical and efficient brake-pad formulations along with their chronological performance metrics based on actual compositions and braking event details.
  • We won the grand prize of $10K! 🚀

Sumo logic

2 roles

Software Engineer II (Observability Dashboards)

Jan 2023Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · Redwood City, California, United States

  • Contributed to the observability & monitoring deck used by customers for reliability of their systems on a day-to-day basis.
ObservabilityMonitoringJavaScript

Software Engineering Intern

May 2022Dec 2022 · 7 mos · Redwood City, California, United States

  • Led the design and development of a migration script from scratch to increase the adoption of new dashboards (v2) to allow a frictionless transition from classic dashboards (v1) for the existing users. (used TypeScript/React)
  • Documented one-to-one transformation strategies for dashboard layout and chart configurations into their corresponding new properties.
  • Built the end-to-end user experience on the classic dashboards (v1) interface for users to perform a one-click migration to the new dashboards (v2) UI.
  • This script will go on to migrate millions of classic dashboards and realize an estimated new dashboard adoption to 90% from existing rate of 52%.
TypeScriptReactWeb Development

Stony brook university

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jan 2022May 2022 · 4 mos · New York, United States

  • CSE-316 : Software Development

Blinkit

Software Engineer - Monetization (Ads)

Sep 2020Jul 2021 · 10 mos

  • Blinkit is one of India's largest online supermarkets for groceries and household products, operating in more than 30 cities. I worked as a full-stack developer to build and maintain the overall Ads service, from auctioning assets on our in-house bidding platform to the targeting of Ads on the Blinkit App.
  • Led the front-end development and re-architecture of the Blinkit Ads platform. Planned and executed a complete re-write of the application with a focus on code maintainability and quality.
  • On the backend, I helped architect the Ads platform to handle city-level targeting and auctioning of monetized assets. Designed and implemented a rule engine to obtain a more fine-grained control over auction creation and gain more flexibility over serving Ads on the Blinkit App.
  • Acted as the SCRUM master to drive bi-weekly sprint planning and task estimation activities.

Deepsource

Software Engineer - Core platform

Jul 2020Sep 2020 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Being one of the initial frontend engineers, I worked closely with the co-founders to plan and evaluate product specifications such as DeepSource Marketplace, DeepSource playground, and DeepSource badges.
  • Collaborated with designers and backend engineers to implement product interfaces in VueJS.
  • Developed a framework to build email-safe data visualizations, supporting various chart-types to deliver meaningful insights to users through emails which helped improve app user retention by 14%.
Full-Stack DevelopmentJavaScriptReact

Nanyang technological university

Research Intern - Speech team

Jan 2020Jul 2020 · 6 mos · Singapore

  • 1. Developed a sophisticated end-to-end slot-filling system aiding the emergency call center operators in being more productive and efficient at work while reducing the erroneous data entries leveraging techniques of spoken language understanding. The project involved the curation of a custom dataset from thousands of emergency call audio files. The language model was wrapped into an API using flask with an average response time of 0.8s.
  • 2. Designed and Developed a rich Transcription based editor integrating the re-speak and speech APIs allowing the user to communicate directly with the Automatic Speech Recognition system (ASR) into a web based service for post transcription processing. Improved the audio waveform load times by almost 50% by implementing a in-browser caching mechanism allowing faster load times of large audio files (1hour+) on low-bandwidths
VueJSData VisualizationFrontend Development

Indus valley partners

Software Development Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Noida Area, India

  • Indus Valley Partners is one of the largest fintech firms building technological solutions for alternative asset managers and supports over $3.6 trillion AUM through its products. Over the summer as an intern, I was responsible for developing a build monitoring system to manage client builds and respond to any sudden failures with real-time updates. I was actively involved in discussions related to databases and data schemas to be used.
  • In addition, I was responsible to choose the tech-stack to be used and went ahead with using ReactJS to build the front-end with using electron to package it into a cross-platform desktop application. I collaborated with different teams such as the Design and Backend teams for UI mockups and APIs giving me an overall understanding of building a product end-to-end.
FlaskMachine Learning

Facebook

Top 8, F8 Hackathon

Apr 2019Apr 2019 · 0 mo · San Jose, CA

  • Was awarded a full student scholarship from Facebook to attend their annual F8 developer Conference and Hackathon. Our team stood amongst the Top 8 finalists out of 42 teams during the Hackathon and I got pitch our product to Mark Zuckerberg!
  • We developed an online platform that allows local teachers and educational experts on a global level to collaborate and curate educational resources which are aligned within core competencies set out in the local region with an emphasis on personalizing curriculum content to the native language.
ReactJSElectronSoftware Development

Smart india hackathon

Winner - Dr. Reddy's Lab

Mar 2019Mar 2019 · 0 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

  • My team collaborated with Dr. Reddy's Labs to build an intelligent natural language search system indexing their unstructured R&D data in the form of word documents and PPTs.
  • Worked on building an efficient document retrieval algorithm on natural language search queries. I prototyped a text summarizer using the TF-IDF algorithm and a text classifier using recurrent neural networks to generate document tags. Used fuzzy logic on the query to retrieve recommendations for a better user experience.

Hasura

Software Development Intern

Oct 2018Jan 2019 · 3 mos · Remote

  • Hasura is a GraphQL API service over SQL databases, with one of the fastest GraphQL engines on the planet. As an intern, I worked on their core product - GraphQL engine, to add new features and resolve existing ones to make the engine more robust. I worked a lot on the UI of their GraphQL dashboard wherein users can manage and visualize their databases and has an editor for writing and testing out graphql queries. Additionally, I wrote boilerplates in ReactJS for new users to get started with using Hasura's GraphQL service and wrote extensive documentation for the features added.

Girlscript foundation

Open-source Mentor

Jun 2018Aug 2018 · 2 mos

  • Mentored a team of 5 developers during the GirlScript Summer of Code'18 by performing code reviews, conducting bi-weekly scrum meetings, and task planning activities and made sure the participants make a significant contribution to open-source.
GraphQLReactJSGraphQL Development

Aparoksha, iiit allahabad

Executive, Web Operations

Nov 2017Mar 2018 · 4 mos · Allahabad Area, India

  • Coordinated a team of 50+ students to organize the Annual Technical Fest of the institute. Responsible for the Development and Design of the official website and adding an online payments service on the website which was introduced for the first time. The website saw 10,000+ page views in 3 months making it a successful campaign.

Effervescence, iiit allahabad

Member, Web Operations

Jul 2017Oct 2017 · 3 mos · Allahabad Area, India

  • Worked as volunteer web developer with the executives of web operations team to develop the official website of Effervescence - Cultural fest of IIIT Allahabad.

Geekhaven, iiit allahabad

Member, Web Development Wing

May 2017Mar 2018 · 10 mos · Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad

  • Selected as a web developer in tech society of IIIT Allahabad. Conducted workshops to teach web development to freshmen.
Web Development

Education

Stony Brook University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Aug 2021Dec 2022

Indian Institute Of Information Technology Allahabad

Bachelor of Technology — Information Technology

Jul 2016Jun 2020

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