Ameya S. Pandilwar

BlackRock

Software Engineer

October 2016 – Present (1 year, 6 months)

San Francisco, CA

Contributing to new product capabilities for the core systems used in investment trade processing and helping improve performance, scalability and usability by developing features using a microservices architecture for a highly-distributed real-time event-driven application leveraging multithreading, executors and distributed locking.

Software Engineer Co-op, TripAdvisor

Boston, MA - 01.2016 – 07.2016 (7 months)
I worked on the platform team which makes it easy for customers to research and book vacation rentals.

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Software Engineer Co-op, Air Worldwide

Boston, MA - 04.2015 – 08.2015 (4 months)
I worked on adding features to Touchstone which is a revolutionary platform engineered for a wide range of risk management workflows.

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Assistant Systems Engineer

August 2012 – May 2014 (1 year 10 months)

Pune, India

• Developed a tool using JSF, Spring MVC and RESTful services for providing real-time status of network elements

• Optimized the overall application performance by 20% & reduced acquisition costs by migrating to an open-source platform

Northeastern University

MS, Computer Science

Boston, MA (Sep 2014 – Aug 2016)

GPA: 4.0 / 4.0

Courses: Algorithms, Parallel Data Processing in MapReduce, Information Retrieval

• Teaching Assistant - Mobile Application Development (Spring 2015)

• Teaching Assistant - Programming Design Paradigm (Fall 2015)

Siddaganga Institute of Technology

BE, Computer Science & Engineering

Tumkur, India (2008 – 2012)

GPA: 3.3 / 4.0

Courses: Data Structures, Object Oriented Modelling and Design, Cloud Computing

• Editor of 'SIGMA' - The Newsletter of Department of CSE

• Organizer for 'BROWSE' - The Technical Fest of Department of CSE

• Received 'On The Spot Award' at TCS for improving the performance of the existing Web Services framework by 40%

• Top Quality Application Category Winners (I Unlock Joy - Phase 2) conducted by Microsoft India

• Xamarin Student Partner (July 2015 - Present)

• Java/J2EE
• jQuery/JavaScript
• Python
• C#/.NET
• SQL/NoSQL
• Spring/Hibernate
• WebServices
• Android
• Machine Learning/AI
• NLP/Big Data
• MapReduce/Apache Spark
• Hadoop

Artist Recognition from Million Song Dataset

• Performed logistic regression on timbre values from 273 GB of HDF5 data
• 35% accuracy in predicting artists among 8000 unique artists

Scalable Search Engine

• Created an inverted index of 185,000 documents using BM25, Okapi TF models
• Indexed using Elasticsearch, and predicted query results with 37% accuracy

Fancy Text Generator

• Over 100,000+ downloads
• 4.1+ rating based on a total of 3,360 reviews

EMI Calculator

• Over 100,000+ downloads
• 4.0+ rating based on a total of 1,180 reviews

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