Jay Ganesh

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 1 mo experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Developed innovative troubleshooting platform at Cisco.
  • Automated critical processes at Mastercard, enhancing productivity.
  • Awarded 'Best Intern' for impactful contributions at Embibe.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Fintech expert with strong skills in software development and product management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingNetworkingSoftware DevelopmentFinanceDeep LearningProduct Management

Other Skills

Cisco ASAKubernetesAmazon Aurora PostgreSQLCloud FirewallRemote Access VPNSecurity Service EdgePull RequestsTech Stack AdaptationAWS CloudFormationAWS CDKGoDigital Experience PlatformFacial RecognitionAlgorithm DevelopmentStatistical Analysis

About

Software Engineering | Data Science | Product Management | Physics | Mathematics

Experience

7 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
3 yrs 11 mos
Current Experience

Cisco

3 roles

Software Engineer III

Promoted

Nov 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Working primarily on Cisco Secure Access (CSA) for Cloud Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) and Remote Access Virtual Private Network as a Service (RAVPNaaS) offering numerous features and varied functionalities including Multitenancy.
  • Co-ideated and developed "Glitch," a troubleshooting platform for RAVPN production issues, reducing mean time to repair (MTTR) for VPN connection and traffic problems; widely adopted across the team.
  • Contributed to the redesign and development of the Firewall Control Plane (FW CP) to decouple large-scale customer configurations from Kubernetes CRDs by persisting them in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, improving configuration generation latency, cluster reliability, and overall scalability.
Cisco ASAKubernetesAmazon Aurora PostgreSQLCloud FirewallRemote Access VPNCloud Computing+1

Software Engineer II

Feb 2023Nov 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Part of the development team of critical features for Security Service Edge (SSE) production rollout encompassing Content Categories (CC), Destination Lists (DL) to enforce firewall policies for specific websites/destinations.
  • Developed priority-based Pull Requests (PR) review bot to get timely reviews from the concerned codeowners, solving a crucial review problem that was brought in team restrospective.
  • Adapted on plethora of tech stack, tools quickly and ensuring high availability and readiness to support team members yielding high productivity.
Security Service EdgePull RequestsTech Stack AdaptationCloud Computing

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022Dec 2022 · 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Software Engineering Internship for Summer 2022, followed by Software Engineering Co-Op for Fall 2022.
  • ⁠ ⁠Contributed to the development for migrating the Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) for Cloud-Native Firewall from AWS CloudFormation to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) in Go.
  • ⁠ ⁠Presented the benefits of imperative paradigm over declarative way of setting up infrastructure for cloud workloads.
AWS CloudFormationAWS CDKGoCloud Computing

Arizona state university

Graduate Services Assistant

Aug 2021Apr 2022 · 8 mos · Phoenix, Arizona, United States

  • Spring 2022: Assisting 75+ engineering students in their coursework and reviewing assignments, quiz and exam submission for their course - SER 222 (Data Structures and Algorithms), SER 232 (Computer System Fundamentals).
  • Responsible for holding office hours to resolve the doubts of the students.
  • Fall 2021: Assisted 50+ engineering students in their coursework and reviewing assignments, quiz and exam submission for their course - SER 415 (Software Enterprise). Responsible for holding office hours to resolve the doubts of the students.

Mastercard

Software Engineer

Jun 2019Feb 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune/Pimpri-Chinchwad Area

  • Part of the development team "Digital Experience Platform (DXP)", a technology agnostic framework which enables development and deployment of reliable, totally customizable and scalable web-apps expeditiously.
  • Digitized and automated the cumbersome manual process of Mastercard's Visitors Entry Management using Facial Recognition and Digital Signature, and deployed across India Offices, thereby decreased man-hours and increased the productivity of the organisation.
  • Won the "Data for Good Hackathon - Innovation Forum" conducted across Mastercard India Tech-Hub and developed a patented algorithm to help meet the needs and requirements of the victims and survivors at the time of crisis by letting them know the nearby opened and active merchants. Received Recognition from CEO, Global President - Operations & Technology, India Tech-Hub Leader and many other business leaders.
  • Automated the manual process of integrating Adobe Launch-Analytics to on-boarding application from minimum 5 days to just 15 seconds, thereby, increasing the overall efficiency of the team and the organisation.
  • Developed a Question-Answering model based on the documents by implementing BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers), a recent paper by Google AI Language.
  • Developed the backend for Social Forum, where one can collaborate, discuss and resolve queries using Gradle build-type and Java-based Spring Framework.
  • Developed a rasa-based chatbot for our website by scraping data and using NLP techniques and FAQ Retrieval System
  • Developed a Connector | Utility Jar for resiliency of our microservice using Hystrix and Spring Retry and Implemented Redis Cache in UGC microservice to decrease load on our dB.
  • Mentored a group of 3 summer interns in 2020 from IIT Kharagpur along with one of my colleagues and drafted many patents throughout the journey.
  • Mostly used tech-stack: Spring, Spring Boot, Django, Python, Rasa, Angular, Node.js, Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Jenkins.
Digital Experience PlatformFacial RecognitionAlgorithm DevelopmentSoftware Development

Worldquant

Research Consultant

Aug 2018Jun 2019 · 10 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Worked remotely as a Research Consultant on websim platform making long short equity trading strategies using fundamental & technical analysis
  • Identified & utilising statistical arbitrage opportunities in the markets and statistical modelling to generate higher returns in hedge-funding AUM
  • Took advantage of diversification across stocks, to produce a low-volatility investment strategy uncorrelated with the alpha pool.
  • Mostly used skills: Mathematics, Python, Basic Finance - Fundamental Ratios and Technical Indicators.
Statistical AnalysisPythonFinance

Prakshep <acq. arya.ag>

Deep Learning Intern

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • UPDATE: Acquired by Arya.ag - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/arya-ag-acquires-agriculture-data-science-company-prakshep/articleshow/91958298.cms?from=mdr
  • Developed a No-Reference Image Quality Assessment using RankIQA to rank the greenhouse crops' images without providing any reference image
  • Implemented YOLO v3, R-CNN, SSD (Single Shot Detection) architecture for object detection of multi-class utilizing a bounding box
  • Analyzed, implemented and improved on the ResNet, Inception v3 model on TensorFlow framework to classify crops with an accuracy of 98.75%
  • Segmented a road scene dataset using SegNet model on Caffe framework to apply it on greenhouse images to predict pixel percentage density.
  • Used Tech-Stack/Skills: Mathematics, Python, Node.js, Tensorflow, Keras, Caffe, AWS, Django.
Image Quality AssessmentObject DetectionTensorFlowDeep Learning

Bank of india

Summer Analyst

May 2017Jun 2017 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • Analyzed various financial ratios required for corporate advance of different corporate firms and delineated the defaulter clients which do not fit healthy and categorized them into NPA (Non-Performing Asset) as per the standards
  • Researched competitors for market comparisons and potential savings, and special empathies were given towards retail financing including various products related to business growth (deposits and advances) and NPA recovery by the bank
  • Examined variances in P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements for the corporate segment and estimated the trend outcomes for the next fiscal quarter and provided variance analysis to the management team.
  • Used Tech-Stack/Skills: Basic Finance, Mathematics, Python and Node.js
Financial AnalysisPythonFinance

Kool smiles

Marketing Volunteer

May 2016Jun 2016 · 1 mo · San Antonio, Texas Area

  • Assisted the staff in promoting the dental awareness, adult workshops, children’s activities, volunteering and other activities
  • Aimed at connecting the community with the company where their dental awareness was scarce
  • Communicated externally and building relationships with potential and current customers and members of the organization

Embibe

Product Management Intern

Jun 2014Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

  • UPDATE: Acquired by Reliance Industries Limited (73%) - https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/oil-gas/ril-completes-acquisition-of-73-stake-in-ai-firm-embibe/articleshow/64562396.cms?from=mdr
  • Performed a comprehensive competitive analysis and produced a detailed report encompassing the opportunities of market expansion and the scope of improvements in Embibe's products
  • Worked under the business development and marketing strategy team and assisted them during the framework
  • Designed user flow of the website, suggested improvements in user interface which decrease bounce rate by 20%
  • Enriched the Learn section of the website by enabling gamification which increased time spent by user by 50%
  • Made an app prototype for the better learning experience using Just In Mind application
  • Awarded as the 'Best Intern' at the end of internship. Reliance Jio invested $180 Mn (73.6% stakes) in Embibe to boost AI-based education in India.
Market AnalysisUser Interface DesignProduct Management

Education

Arizona State University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jan 2021Jan 2022

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)

Jul 2015Aug 2019

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