Urvish Thakker — Software Engineer

I am Urvish Thakker, Carnegie Mellon University graduate. I also possess Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from Nirma University and was awarded the 'University Gold Medal' for the same. I am a software engineer with more than 2 years of Software Engineering experience and am passionate about building scalable and efficient software applications (Distributed Systems). I am an adaptive learner and so open to work with any tech stack out there. However, Java, Spring Boot, MySQL, MongoDb, React, NodeJS, JavaScript, Python, Git, Docker are some of the technolgoies I am proficient and have been working with them since awhile. I would love to work in an environment that fosters me to learn and develop new skills and is inclusive. Moreover, I am an individual with impeccable educational record and ability to work well with people. I posses ability to work in a fast-paced environment, entrepreunial spirit and am a great team builder, also possessing technology skills. Accolades: -> Hackathon Champion: 2nd out of more than 75 Teams at Palo Alto Networks Hackathon, $1500 prize. -> Deans List: Carnegie Mellon University (Fall '21, Spring '22) -> Gold Medal: Nirma University (1st in Department out of 137 students) ->President: St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall (Student Council Elections) ->Published 6 research papers in IEEE, Springer among others and have 100+ citations for the same

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Cybersecurity.

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States

Experience: 6 yrs 11 mos

Skills

Java
Distributed Systems
Javascript

Career Highlights

Hackathon Champion with $1500 prize.
Published 6 research papers with 100+ citations.
University Gold Medalist at Nirma University.

Work Experience

TinyFish

Eng (2 yrs)

Stealth AI Startup

Software Engineer (9 mos)

Longtail Technologies

Software Engineer (4 mos)

Carnegie Mellon University

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Distributed Systems (4 mos)

Teaching Assistant (7 mos)

Research Assistant (3 mos)

Palo Alto Networks

Software Engineer Intern (3 mos)

ISRO - Indian Space Research Organization

Machine Learning Research Intern (4 mos)

Indian Navy

Data Science Intern (1 mo)

Nayara Energy

Digital Finance Automation Intern (1 mo)

Aarna Capital Limited

Operations Analyst (1 mo)

Infocrats ITNU

Spokesperson (1 yr)

Kunvarji Group

Business Analyst Intern (1 mo)

Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India

Summer Camp (0 mo)

IEEE Student Branch, Nirma University

Editor (1 yr)

St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall, India

President of the Student Council (8 mos)

Education

Master's degree at Carnegie Mellon University

Bachelor's degree at Nirma University

High School Diploma at St. Xavier's High School

Urvish Thakker

Software Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States6 yrs 11 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Hackathon Champion with $1500 prize.
Published 6 research papers with 100+ citations.
University Gold Medalist at Nirma University.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with expertise in SaaS and Cybersecurity.

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Skills

Core Skills

JavaDistributed SystemsJavascript

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSApache KafkaArtificial Intelligence (AI)C (Programming Language)CommunicationCritical ThinkingCustomer InsightData AnalysisData ScienceData StructuresDeep LearningElasticSearchFront-End Development

About

Experience

6 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

9 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs

Current Experience

Tinyfish

Eng

Jun 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

Stealth ai startup

Software Engineer

Aug 2023 – May 2024 · 9 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

Longtail technologies

Software Engineer

Feb 2023 – Jun 2023 · 4 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · On-site

Introduced an in-memory caching mechanism for the flight itinerary service that reduced the number of redundant processed routes and consequently, request runtime by 35%.
Reduced deployment time by 25% by enabling parallel instead of sequential processing of build jobs and introducing retry-based fault tolerance in service build phase.
Implemented unit tests to maintain code stability and prevent regressions while developing new features, and an ElasticSearch based (ELK Framework) dashboard for efficient troubleshooting, enabling quick identification and resolution of issues within the service.
Continuous Integration/Deployment Pipeline Integration, pull requests, code reviews, unit/integration testing, technical documentation.

Spring FrameworkSpring BootApache KafkaMySQLGitJava+4

Carnegie mellon university

3 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Distributed Systems

Aug 2022 – Dec 2022 · 4 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Mentored 80+ students to implement distributed systems, API, software architecture patterns, networking protocol, TCP, and cryptography.

Apache KafkaJavaJavaScriptRepresentational State Transfer (REST)Distributed Systems

Teaching Assistant

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 · 7 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Software Development

Research Assistant

Oct 2021 – Jan 2022 · 3 mos · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Palo alto networks

Software Engineer Intern

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos · Santa Clara, California, United States

Summer Intern at Palo Alto Networks, in the Prisma Access SASE team as software engineer intern.
Drove architectural changes in the Rastro (Internal tool for logs visualization) to enhance end-to-end traceability feature of tool.
Developed unit test framework for prisma access’ legacy service ‘queryserv’ and increased the overall code coverage by 17%.
Lead our team and won 2nd Position out of 77+ teams in the Annual R&D hackathon and awarded a prize of $1500.
Presented and built a slack-bot to find an appt point of contact for a particular query within the company using sources such as bitbucket commits, JIRA tickets, confluence authors, among others. The slack-bot recorded 87% employee engagement and interaction.

Microsoft AzureAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software DevelopmentUnit TestingApache KafkaMicroservices+6

Isro - indian space research organization

Machine Learning Research Intern

Jan 2021 – May 2021 · 4 mos · Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Prepared dataset for full polarimetric SAR images and devised the features to be recorded in the dataset, to be used by 10+ teams.
Deployed an ensemble-learning using Support Vector Machine model for the classification of full polarimetric SAR images and achieved an accuracy of 82% which exceeded the accuracy achieved by existing state-of-the-art models.

Indian navy

Data Science Intern

Jun 2020 – Jul 2020 · 1 mo

• Spearheaded development of Decision tree-based model for predictive maintenance and repairs of electric motor vehicles; minimizing the loss incurred by inaccurate maintenance of it, saved $1.75M of repairs cost.