Aug 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · United States · Remote

• Engineered and enhanced Java based services focused on safeguarding against cyber threats, including DDoS attacks, malware, and rate limiting.
• Implemented a robust Terraform provider plugin in Go, optimizing infrastructure as code (IaC) workflows and contributing to the successful automation of resource provisioning enhancing overall operational stability in the dynamic cloud environment.
• Initiated a proof-of-concept by harnessing open-source machine learning model LLama 2 and Python to construct a virtual assistant for the Akamai Security Platform to help customers answer their queries in a much better way enhancing user engagement and overall platform usability.

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

• Developed KRM (Kubernetes resource management) functions library for enabling code reuse in Crane plugins and Velero Openshift plugins for kubernetes resource transformations.
• Modified open source Velero controller codebase so as to improve the plugin performance by reducing the number of GRPC calls drastically and improving the performance of Backup/ Restore process.
• Deployed and configured Kubernetes clusters using Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform and Ansible.

Aug 2021 – May 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Graduate Grading Assistant and Course Manager for Undergraduate Courses
• CSCI - 3308 - Software Develpment Tools and Methodologies
• CSCI - 3010 - Intensive Programming Workshop

Sep 2020 – Jul 2021 · 10 mos

• Engineered backend for real estate application that used AI to generate intelligent renewal offers for the tenants that increased retention rates and rent growth by 30 percent and was scaled across 10000 tenants across USA.
• Built a production level web scraper in Python to collect data and built pipelines for efficient extraction and transformation of tenants data that reduced the processing time of data by 20%.
• Responsible for API design and development of RESTful services for enterprise products by business and for use by third party applications.
• Automated and improved the deployment process to create automatic builds and deployments that reduced the time and effort of almost 10 hrs per week for deploying the application.
• Integrated machine learning models with the backend application to automate the process of prediction of rent.

Jun 2018 – Sep 2020 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

• Developed an IOT based service for collection of binary data from vehicles through OBD devices.
• Programmed algorithms for calculation of trips and driving behaviour of users.
• Built backend APIs for vehicle monitoring and vehicle booking for internal users.
• Developed visualisations for dashboard to get a better insight and overview of analyzed data and to identify various driving patterns and mileage efficiency that helped reduce the cost of logistics for the client by 30 percent.

Aug 2017 – Jun 2018 · 10 mos

• Developed modules for taking a consistent incremental backup of virtual machines from AWS cloud to Microsoft Azure.
• Worked on AWS and Azure to automate the process of cross-cloud data transfer using Python boto3 and Azure management libraries.

Jun 2017 – Sep 2017 · 3 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

• Developed modules using Django framework ( Python) and Natural Language processing tools (Spacy) to automatically summarize legal contracts.