Experience

Peer Mentor (Teaching Assistant) | Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (Jan 2026 – Present)

• Machine Learning and Sensing (Prof. Karan Ahuja) – Spring’26
• Compiler Construction (Prof. Dietrich Geisler) – Winter’26
• Facilitated weekly office hours and supported students through assignments and projects throughout the quarter.
• Graded coding assignments and projects, providing detailed and constructive feedback.
• Coordinated course logistics, including inviting and scheduling external guest speakers.

Senior Software Engineer | Arcesium (D.E. Shaw Group), Hyderabad, India (July 2023 – Aug 2025)

• Optimized the executor component of a distributed job execution engine (1M+ jobs/day) by caching eligible jobs metadata at the host-level, resulting in a 70% reduction in DynamoDB reads, and enabling dynamic autoscaling.
• Developed a domain-aware alert aggregation feature for a large-scale alerting system, improving efficiency by 30%.
• Secured APIs with HMAC verification, blocking 100% of unauthorized traffic while maintaining less than 0.5ms latency.

Software Engineer | Arcesium (D.E. Shaw Group), Hyderabad, India (June 2021 – June 2023)

• Designed a backend service orchestrating a high‑throughput log ingestion pipeline (40TB/day) with zero data loss.
• Developed a configuration‑driven routing module that dynamically maps logs to Kafka topics and Elasticsearch indices using schema‑aware rules and declarative configs.

Data Science Intern | Arcesium (D.E. Shaw Group), Hyderabad, India (Feb 2021 – May 2021)

• Designed a statistical model to compute health scores for core infrastructure services by normalizing multi-source service metrics (1M+ data points/day) of non-uniform ranges.
• Leveraged ETS time-series models to capture trends and anomalies, improving health prediction accuracy by 30% over heuristic methods.