Experience and Skills

“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” – Harold Abelson

Skills

Technologies: Java, Python, C/C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, YAML, JSON, Spring Boot, Flask, Node.js, Next.js, React, TensorFlow
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Elasticsearch, Versant Object Database
Tools: Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, GCP, Postman, JIRA, Hibernate
Practices: RESTful APIs, Microservices, Agile, SDLC, Test-Driven Development, CI/CD, Containerization

Software Engineer

IIT-Database Group Research Lab, Illinois Institute of Technology - Chicago, USA

May 2024 - Present
- Working under Prof. Gerald Balekaki
- Designing SQL query execution plans optimized at the systems level, focusing on cost estimation and execution times using ML techniques, such as Deep Q-Networks and Support Vector Machines, to achieve optimal query plan selections
Application Engineer (Content Systems Development)

Hindustan Times through Four C Plus (Internet) Co. Ltd. - New Delhi, India

Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
- Developed and maintained an event-driven auto-publishing service for the web content management system using Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs. Integrated social media content publication with Spring Security OAuth 2.0
- Refactored backend services with Hibernate-based ORM for database upgrades
Application Engineer (Data Systems Optimization)

Hindustan Times through Four C Plus (Internet) Co. Ltd. - New Delhi, India

Jul 2018 - Oct 2019
- Developed Java servlets to transform XML data into a proprietary object database schema and designed a multithreaded data ingestion pipeline using Java’s ExecutorService
- Implemented a notifier service with JMS to manage and log operations on the import server database

Inheritance and Data Structures in Java

Coursera (Issued by University of Pennsylvania)
Object Oriented Programming in Java

Coursera (Issued by University of California San Diego)