About Me

Who Am I?

In case you're wondering.. I am the one looking at you from inside the circle at the top-left corner. The guy with the white shirt is ...well a placeholder while I try to find a half-decent photo of mine.

Anyways..I'm just your regular guy trying to get something big out of life. I like to find joy in small things. I'm a relentless traveler, photographer, an avid scrabbler, a trivia seeker and a life-long sports fan, especially F1 and football (read: soccer). I also do okay in 8-Ball Pool and Ping-Pong. I can eat with chopsticks and I'm handy with French (and fluent in 3 other languages). I also added full-time cooking in my skill-set while in quarantine. Apart from all the things that you just read, I also happen to be a computer science master's graduate and a software engineer on the side. I am currently pursuing my Master's at RIT and looking to land a decent job sometime soon in Software Dev / Data Analytics/ ML / AI. I made this website during quarantine hoping that potential employers might like it. I ended up getting a job in '21 but now I am back in the job hunt. So if you are an employer looking for a software engineer with 3 YOE (at a startup) with specialties in backend development and DevOps, I'm available. If you are just a visitor, feel free to fool around in this website. Drop an email (yes it will pop up in my inbox) if you think something needs improvement. Cheers!

This is a personal little space of my own in the web. Read on to find out more about me

Education

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY

August 2018 - December 2020
GPA : 3.56/4
Courses Taken: Big Data Analytics, ML, Advanced OOPS, Computer Networks, Visual Analytics, Data Structures and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Cryptography and Data Security, Database Management.

Dharmsinh Desai University
Nadiad, Gujarat, India

August 2014 - May 2018
GPA : 7.65/10
Courses Taken: Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, Calculus, Discrete Math, Algorithm Analysis, Database, Knowledge Discovery, Image Processing

St. Xavier's High School
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

June 2001 - March 2014
Represented school in regional and national level quizzes. Part of Pool, Ping-Pong and Football teams.

What interests me?

Here are some of my areas of work and interest

Backend Development

Platform / Infrastructure

Machine Learning / AI

My Specialty

My Skills

Throughout my career, I've tried to constantly expand my skillset across various areas of Computer Science. Below are some of my highlighted skills and how "comfortable" I am with them

Golang

85%

Java (Core, Spring Boot)

75%

Python(Core, Flask/Django)

75%

AWS (ECS, EB, S3, Dynamo, CloudWatch, etc.)

75%

Docker

60%

Database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL (Mongo))

70%

Kafka

60%
Experience

Work Experience

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.

My Projects

Recent Projects

Feature Exploration for Compelling Talks

Python, OpenPose, AGCN, LSTM, RandomForest

More on Github 

Amazon Product Reviews

Data Management (SQL), Data Mining - Birch Clustering, SVM Classification, Data Visualization

More on Github 

Custom SDN Controller

Computer Networks, Python, Multithreading, Mininet

More on Github 

Data Structures & Algorithm Visualization

JavaScript, SVG.js, jQuery, CSS, HTML

More on Github 

Read

Travel Blog

I love to travel. To go places. To explore. I have been fortunate enough to live in Boston which is probably my favourite city and is a joy to explore. I like it so much here that I've got a special blog for all things Boston. visit a lot of great places and drive on magnificent roads. I have got a fair amount of passport stamps to go with it. I have experienced great cities such as Mumbai, New York, Boston, Seattle, Paris, Montreal, Toronto as well as famous natural parks such as Adirondacks, Yosemite, Crater Lake and Niagara Falls. I hope to keep expanding this list throughout my life. Take a glimpse into the traveling me in the posts below.

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ABC 20XX | Somewhere on Earth

A catchy title

Adding some content soon

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ABC 20XX | Somewhere on Earth

A catchy title

Adding some content soon

March 2020 | Quebec, Canada

The Quebec Pandemic Getaway

The Pandemic was in its nascent stages and US-Canada border was open. I sneaked into Canada for my one-week spring break to meet a close friend. Little did I know that one week would lead to two weeks and then 4 months in Canada. It was SOME experience I tell you and needless to say I made the most of it

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January 2020 | Paris, France

A Layover Special

A cheap flight ticket often comes with long layovers. I made the most of my 17 hours in Paris by exploring its majestic beauty at night. Eiffel Tower, Place-de-la-Concorde, The Louvre and Champ-de-Mars made the few hours look like eternity.

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October 2019 | Adirondacks, Upstate New York.

Lost in the Fall

My roommates and I decided to explore the picturesque towns of Lake Placid and Lake George and hike to scintillating fall views of the Adirondacks. I also had the fortune of driving on some of the most scenic roads I have ever seen.

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July 2019 | Yosemite National Park, California

The Intern Rock 'n Roll Trip

I flew down from Seattle during my internship and teamed up with my buddy and cousin (interning themselves). We embarked on a two day trip to the world renowned Yosemite National Park. The trip had it all :- wallpapers, hiking, black bears, waterfalls, El Capitan (and oh, some rolling too).