Engineer in San Francisco Bay Area
About Me
Over 10+ years of experience as a software engineer with a wealth of experience in scalable systems ,data platforms and machine learning.I have worked at various consumer technology companies solving problems at scale (eBay,Fanatics,Uber,Target,Wealthfront)
See my LinkedIn profile for more career details.
Highlights
- Worked as an engineer in Uber Data Infrastructure team to build a scalable and reliable platform to orchestrate, schedule and execute data processing pipeline and complex data workflows (Piper / uWorc). It solves business problems that span across various products (Eats/ Rides) and teams (Safety, Marketplace);serve as the backend engine for other platforms solving use cases related to ML, data ingestion, data quality
- Lead all data engineering efforts for experimentation framework at Target. Scaled team from 2 to 7 engineers. As part of this job I designed and implemented key data infrastructure tools to develop, deploy, scale, and operationalize real-time pipelines as well as batch pipelines.
- I just turned my passion for sports into a place in Fanatics, the world’s premiere online destination for sports apparel and merchandise. As part of an aspiring team of data science team, I was given the freedom to explore new ideas that would take our $1B+ online business to the next level. When we needed to launch something different for Fanatics, I worked on new search engine with unprecedented accuracy, speed and scalability. 12 months later we’ve exceeded our 6-month goal for revenue generation by $3M
- Won multiple hackathon competitions at eBay. Got an opportunity to work with Mark Carges (CTO) to take the hackathon project to production.
Projects
Personal Interests
- Deep learning. It's an exciting time for machine learning. I'm working through several online classes, and participate in Kaggle Competitions .
- Big Data Computing. I have been working with Spark / Airflow for last few years and actively follow and time to time contribute to these open source projects.
- Hiking. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, home of some of the greatest mountains and trails in the country. I enjoy exploring outdoors activities.
Outside Work
- pypandas-sql is an open-source package designed to make it easier to get data from most commonly used databases/data warehouse into a pandas DataFrame using SQL.
- Checkout my blog where I try to write about things I have learnt or share my prespective on how to be become a better engineer