Ajinkya Harkare

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San Francisco, California, United States15 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led large teams to develop innovative network solutions.
Built scalable anomaly detection frameworks for big data.
Designed recognized platforms for network insights and security.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Data Engineering expert with a strong focus on network infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software InfrastructureSoftware DesignMachine LearningSoftware Development

Other Skills

ARIMAZ-ScoreLinear ModelsKafkaHadoopETLC#JavaC++ANTLRElasticsearchPython (Programming Language)PostgreSQLEngineeringNetworking

About

Accomplished software engineer and tech leader with 15 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying large-scale distributed systems and a proven track record in driving innovation and delivering high-impact solutions from inception across analytics, networking, and cloud technologies

Experience

15 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 6 mos

Current Experience

Google

Software Engineering Lead

Dec 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

▪ Led a team of 20-30 engineers across 8-10 teams to develop and deploy network infrastructure efficiency initiatives.
▪ Proposed, designed, and implemented solutions for demand-based network bandwidth scaling, machine learning hardware network design, and traffic path redundancy.
▪ Contributed to Greener Google Initiatives by developing network-aware scheduling and scaling for YouTube scheduler.
▪ Led the development of a unified data center network intent graph engine for continuous generation and updation of Google's network intent graph.
▪ Achieved significant cost savings for Google, reduced carbon footprint, and improved process efficiencies for faster deployments.

Software InfrastructureSoftware Design

Vmware

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer

May 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

▪ Built and owned an anomaly detection framework that scaled to 10 million time series with billions of data points per day, using ARIMA, Z-Score, and Linear Models.
▪ Developed components to scale out Facebook Gorilla-based distributed time series database for faster access and high throughput.
▪ Owned the firewall and security appliance product pillar, implementing low-latency processing and state management across multiple data sources.
▪ Implemented ANTLR grammar-based parsers and indexers using Elastic Search.
▪ Prototyped network-aware workload placement using reinforcement learning.

Software DesignSoftware Infrastructure

Staff Software Engineer

Jun 2016 – Apr 2017 · 10 mos

▪ Led NSX partner service integrations for Palo Alto Networks and AWS cloud integrations, enhancing security posture and data flow.
▪ Designed data contracts and search integrations for cross-domain correlation and analytics.
▪ Implemented micro-segmentation of workloads across AWS tags, optimizing performance and security.

Software DesignSoftware Infrastructure

Arkin net

Founding Member of technical staff

Oct 2013 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Pune Area, India

▪ Owned key aspects of the high level architecture and implementation of a Gartner-recognized Network Insights platform.
▪ Designed and implemented a time machine database for configuration storage.
▪ Architected and owned the data inflow framework using Kafka.
▪ Designed data modeling contracts and processing engines.
▪ Created and owned the data collector infrastructure.
▪ Implemented intelligence and problem detection workflows for network security.
▪ Developed custom topologies using D3.js for network visualization.

Software DesignSoftware Development

Software Engineer

Oct 2011 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

▪ Designed the data flow pipeline for a metadata framework that tracked data lineage and freshness across Hadoop, relational databases, and ETL jobs.
▪ Designed the data model and service contracts for developer-facing APIs.
▪ Created a storage layer for semi-structured data with high availability and consistency.
▪ Implemented a scheduling trigger engine based on workflow dependencies.
▪ Created an indexing framework for generating histograms at low latency using ElasticSearch.
▪ Developed HDFS import for warehouse data used in ETL jobs.

Software InfrastructureSoftware Design

Clickable

Software Development Engineer

May 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

▪ Created module architecture and designed service contracts for an advertising management product.
▪ Developed the ad builder service framework.
▪ Implemented extraction and processing of Ads data using the Adwords and Facebook Ads API.

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