Built and maintained Python/Flask backend services for indicative loan pricing (Fannie/Freddie) including property search, loan calculations, and Excel workflows
Improved API performance ~40% via Redis caching of frequently accessed loan/property data
Designed scalable file/export architecture using S3 pre-signed URLs and AWS Lambda async processing to avoid blocking API requests
Optimized PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy performance with lazy loading, connection pooling, composite indexes, and bulk operations
Implemented read/write separation with PostgreSQL read replicas and SQLAlchemy routing at the repository layer
Integrated ML inference into backend via SageMaker endpoints with Celery/RabbitMQ async calls and Redis caching
Designed multi-tenant data isolation with tenant-ID enforcement, RBAC via Keycloak, and audit logging
Resolved production export failures (>50k rows) by redesigning to streaming + background processing; ~90% export improvement and >30% memory reduction
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Experience
Software EngineerUber · Jun 2024 – Present
Web Developer/ Instructional AssistantUniversity of North Texas · Aug 2023 – May 2024part-time
Full Stack DeveloperBerkadia Services India Pvt Ltd · Feb 2022 – Aug 2023
Programmer AnalystDell · Jan 2020 – Feb 2022
Education
University of North Texasmaster, Information Systems & Tech
Principal Robotics & Autonomy Research Engineer specializing in localization and multi-robot navigation
Murray Hill, NJ31y exp
Nokia Bell LabsUniversity of Pennsylvania
“Highly experienced robotics software engineer building ROS/ROS2 systems for fleets of autonomous mobile robots (Clearpath Jackal/Husky and custom platforms), spanning localization, navigation, and multi-robot coordination. Has published work at ICRA (including RL-based local planning and heterogeneous robot coordination via a ROS-to-ZMQ bridge) and maintains open-source ROS modules, with strong simulation, debugging, and CI/CD practices.”