Nilaksh Agarwal

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States5 yrs 3 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Expert in Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems.
  • Strong background in Machine Learning and Data Science.
  • Proven leadership in managing technical projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Data Science specialist with strong software engineering capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsKubernetes

Other Skills

AlgorithmsArtificial Intelligence (AI)BashCC (Programming Language)C++Computer VisionData AnalysisData StructuresDeep LearningDjangoGitGo (Programming Language)HTMLImage Processing

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Experience

5 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 3 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 10 mos
Current Experience

Apple

Software Developer

Aug 2024Present · 1 yr 10 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

Palantir technologies

Dev

Feb 2023Jul 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Part of Rubix Compute team, responsible for instance lifecycle, scaling & cloud provider interactions, providing a unified interface for services running on AWS, Azure, GCP & Openshift
  • Instance Type Fallback: Enabled workloads to support multiple instance types & developed fallback
  • strategy to improve performance & availability in low-capacity regions for Azure & Openshift
  • Capacity Reservations: Introduced reservations as a first-class concept, unified across AWS, Azure, & GCP, supporting scaling & instance replacement; allowing critical workflows to safeguard against outages
  • Topological Disruption Budgets: Built service to create and handle custom pod disruption budgets (e.g. zonal) to allow selective bulk pod deletion while maintaining up-time & readiness of services
KubernetesCloud ComputingDistributed Systems

Caerus commodities

Data Science Intern

Sep 2022Dec 2022 · 3 mos · New York, United States

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

Jun 2022Aug 2022 · 2 mos · United States

  • Built injection framework (C, Python) to test user mode faults for Client Interactions with Azure Core APIs
  • Developed code gen tool to create framework from headers, auto-generating stubs for fault injection
  • Integrated and injected 3 SDKs and tested 10+ client interactions; framework extensible to all Azure SDK

Columbia university in the city of new york

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Manhattan, New York, United States

  • Course Assistant for:
  • COMS 4774 (Unsupervised Learning) in Spring 2022, Summer 2022 & Fall 2022
  • COMS 4732 (Computer Vision) in Spring 2022
  • COMS 4252 (Computational Learning Theory) in Fall 2021
  • INAFU6005 (NLP Applications) in Fall 2021
  • Roles and Responsibilites:
  • Helped evaluate homeworks, projects & quizzes
  • Conducted regular office hours & help sessions

Worldquant

2 roles

Data Scientist

Promoted

Aug 2020Aug 2021 · 1 yr · New Delhi, Delhi, India

  • Part of a new initiative, aimed at developing datasets from unstructured data
  • Analyzed conference call to predict stock movement with sentiment analysis
  • Developed clustering to generate groupings, increasing in alpha performance
  • Using these datasets, created strong, uncorrelated alphas, adding significant value

Quantitative Researcher

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Mumbai, Maharashtra

  • Devised operations for intraday strategies to reduce risk & regulate market impact
  • Improved value addition to trade signals using technical market indicators
  • Transformed signals using style factors based expose, minimizing market risk
  • Implemented the Johansen test for cointegration, used for equity pair trading

Indian institute of technology, delhi

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jul 2019Jul 2020 · 1 yr · New Delhi, Delhi

  • Teaching Assistant for COL362 (Database Systems) in Spring 2020
  • Teaching Assistant for COL341 (Machine Learning) in Fall 2019
  • Helped author and evaluate homeworks, projects & quizzes
  • Conducted help sessions and taught use of various libraries/tools

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Summer Associate

May 2018Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

  • Management transformation for a leading telecom operator, India
  • Conducted Commercial due diligence for European Energy Service provider
  • Received Pre-Placement Offer for exemplary contribution across project engagements

Qrius (formerly the indian economist)

Associate Team Lead

Dec 2016Sep 2017 · 9 mos

  • Managed a 30+ team, responsible for editing & publishing 500+ news articles per month
  • Responsible for allocation & sequencing of articles, social media posts and SEO parameters
  • Received 4 promotions in 9 months, awarded letter of recommendation for contributions

Education

Columbia University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Aug 2021Dec 2022

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Master of Technology - MTech — Computer Science

Jan 2018Jan 2020

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Engineering Physics

Jan 2015Jan 2019

AECS Magnolia Maaruti Public School - India

All India Senior School Certificate Examination — Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

National Public School

CBSE 10th Grade

Jan 2003Jan 2013

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