Hi! I'm a graduate student at Purdue University, a research assistant at the Responsible Data Science Lab, and a software engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable distributed systems. My current research interests are data management, and robustness, explainability and fairness in ML pipelines.
As I explore new technologies and frameworks, I like to consciously think about the underlying mechanisms that make them effective for specific applications.
Explainable AI (XAI), Algorithmic Fairness, Causal Inference, Distribution Shift, Concept Drift
Tabular Data Modeling, Time Series Classification, Dimensionality Reduction, Counterfactuals, NLP
OOP, SOLID, System Design, Microservices, Spring Boot, REST APIs, CI/CD, Agile
ETL, Docker, Kubernetes, Spark, Databricks, AWS (EC2, EMR), DigitalOcean, MySQL, MongoDB
Java, C/C++, Python, Javascript, Scala, PHP, Bash, LaTeX
Scikit-learn, NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras
NodeJS, ReactJS, HTML/CSS, Graphic Design
MATLAB, Simulink, RabbitMQ, Redis, Apache Nifi, Payment gateways
During the three years that I worked as a software engineer at
Capillary,
my most expansive project was POTATO (Over-The-Air Transactions Orchestrator), a secure and
reliable in-house payment orchestration solution.
Potato ensures seamless automated fueling experience for customers.
The Camunda and Spring Boot based service is capable of handling real-time transactions for
more than 10,000 users per minute.
Why
did I name it so?
Before Potato, I worked as a Big Data Engineer on ReOn, Capillary's flagship CRM and BI tool. ReOn, short for Relational Ontologies, is a comprehensive ETL system for data warehousing. Powered by Spark, the system manages a data inflow of over 6 billion new daily records.
Everyone loves open source software. Everyone loves Star Wars (Right?). What if we combined the two? Enter Cuckoo Dooku: a Star Wars themed, open source Chrome extension to boost your productivity. It even got a commendation at the FOSS Hackathon in 2021. (Must be really cool).
I began coding at eight with Logo and QBasic. As I gained confidence I sought new challenges. In my ninth grade, I chose a seemingly simple one-day school project: building a snake game. (It's just like a Logo turtle, right? Wrong.) It took weeks. But it was a huge learning experience. Amid lost projects over the years, I've carefully preserved this one.
I'm always up for conversation. Especially if it leans towards the philosophical side (I'd probably double-major in philosophy if I had the chance to go back in time). I like meeting new people, trying new food and learning about new languages and cultures. On weekends, I try to make time to play (nowadays mostly just watch) soccer. Apart from soccer, I also geek out on music, where my taste usually revolves around indie and alternative rock (currently shoegaze/post-punk).
Looking for someone to bore you with low-effort humor? Or perhaps have an "intellectual" discussion on how puns emerge from the abstraction of language?