Hi!
I'm Vaibhav

Software Engineer - March 2021 - Jan 2024
Boston, MA

My first full-time job out of college! And it was a great experience. Joined when Fetch was a mid-size startup of 300ish folks. I had the chance to work in a fast-paced envrionment with some amazingly smart folks. I worked with frontend mobile team, product designers, backend devs and under the CTO himself. I learned the in-n-out of backend development and got my hands on the latest and greatest tech and tooling. Checkout my resume for more details on what I was upto

Software Development Intern, Amazon - Summer 2019
Seattle, Washington

I interned as a Software Development Engineer with one of the biggest tech firms in the world - Amazon As part of the Alexa Shopping ASR Team, I got excellent industrial exposure that augmented my technical, interpersonal and management skills. A few highlights of my internship :

• Performed analysis customer utterances on to extract phonetically similar words that may be misinterpreted by Alexa. Used a combination of Levenshtien distance and phonetic algorithms (Soundex, Metaphone-3) to pinpoint the words. The motivation of this work was to allow non-tech savvy individuals (Program Managers, Data Associates, etc) to self-analyze the utterances without offloading work to Engineers thereby saving time and resources. Additionally, analyzed utterances were to be provided to the voice modeling team for improvements.
• Designed and implemented an end-to-end mechanism that automates the existing manual and technical approach for adding items to Alexa’s database per locale. Infrastructure consisted of Flask, AWS S3 and REST API. Saved valuable time of data associates and development.
• Gained valuable knowledge on Agile methodologies, Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment, Git Version Control
• Improved software engineering skills by routinely collaborating with stakeholders/customers to understanding feature requirements, employing industry standard coding practices and code reviewing
• Understanding importance of work life balance as well as meeting milestone deadlines/commitments

Research and Development Intern, Bhaskaracharya Institute of Space and Geoinformatics  - Dec 2017 to Apr 2018
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India

This was my first internship ever. It was a great experience working at a government funded institute. I got a hands-on experience in multiple technologies such as Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, jQuery, REST APIs. Few Highlights of the work I did :

• Implemented a web-based solution streamlining the operation of GeoServers right from workspace creation to shapefile rendering.
• Intergrated custom REST API with underlying Geoserver API with a Java backend. Noticeable reduction in the development times of BISAG scientists.
• Rendered shapefiles as full-fledged maps on Geoserver with added distance measuring and label marking capabilities. Shapefiles loaded in PostgreSQL 10.