OfferUp

Staff Software Engineer - Business

Led a full-stack team of 8 engineers that's responsible for the ingestion, storage, retrieval, and life cycle management of all items and images on OfferUp.

Senior Software Development Engineer - Catalog/Motors

Software Development Engineer II - Catalog

Microsoft

Part of the Secure Token Service (STS) team, enabling secure and robust authentication solutions in Azure Active Directory.

Software Engineer, Azure Active Directory

Veritas Technologies LLC

Eliminated the need for any storage devices needed for debugging Veritas File System (VxFS) issues by re-implementing VxFS userspace utilities which enabled them to work on a file instead of a block device. This allowed the engineers to start debugging without blocking on the storage resources. It will be a part of future VxFS releases.

Software Engineer Intern

Cisco Systems

Wireless Network Business Unit Polaris Team
• Instrumental in the implementation of High Availability feature to sync operational data to stand-by WLC (Wireless LAN controller) using elcaro database (a transactional in-memory database) with replication and support for dependency ordering.
• Solved scalability issues persistent with the previous version of the software by externalizing the AP (Access Points) sessions data to a shared database outside the process, which was later tested on set-ups with more than 500 Access Points(simulated) and Mobility peers.
• Efficiently used TDL (The Definition Language) schema that blends the requirements of messaging and databases. 
Technologies: C, Gdb, ACME;  Hardware: Cat5760(Controller), Cat3850.

Software Engineer

Omsai Jadhav

Majority of Work

Mentor & Software Engineer

Uplift Agency Ltd.

Senior Software Engineer

New Relic

Software Engineer II

Horus Monitoring

• Created Horus, an open-source observability solution for distributed applications
• Created telemetry data pipeline: generating (OpenTelemetry), processing (Express), storing (TimescaleDB) and visualizing (Next.js) metrics and traces
• Prototyped alternative infrastructures using Grafana, Jaeger, Zipkin, and ElasticSearch
• Built Horus Agent: NPM that abstracts the work of using OpenTelemetry SDKs to instrument and export metrics and traces to Horus
• Optimized for higher requests per second using OpenTelemetry queues and batching 
• Designed and load tested with artillery.io, front-end tested with Jest
• Tested Horus infrastructure locally and in a distributed microservice architecture hosted across multiple DigitalOcean VPS
• Automated deployment using Docker (network, images, docker-compose)
• Authored Horus’s case study: https://tryhorus.com/case-study
• Collaborated with a remote team of 4 engineers across 3 timezones using agile workflow

Creator, Software Engineer

A few of the projects & technologies used during this time:
• RequestBin.site - a real-time application for receiving & debugging webhooks (Socket.io, Nginx, Redis, DigitalOcean Droplet, PM2)
• Contact Manager - A CRUD app for storing and filtering contacts (Node.js/Express, PostgreSQL, vanilla JavaScript).
• Ello-Trello - A Trello-like collaboration app(MongoDB, Express, Node, React, Redux, ReactDnD)
• Shopping Cart - a database-backed e-commerce app (React, Redux, MongoDB, Node

Launch School

• Led weekly study groups teaching programming fundamentals, problem-solving, and Ruby Object-Oriented programming
• Provided detailed code reviews on small coding projects
• Created instructional and problem-solving videos for fundamental JavaScript concepts
• Wrote detailed curriculum focusing on the problem-solving process of Ruby and JavaScript coding challenges
• Led and hosted a full season of the community podcast
• Wrote Medium blog posts explaining technical and soft-skill problem-solving

Teaching Assistant

Richmond Academy

- Taught 7-12 grade English courses — made every curriculum adapted to the students. From scratch.
- Conducted hybrid virtual instruction for most classes — half the class was in the room with me, the other half were in a classroom a few hours north
- Created & taught custom Communications course 
- Taught other various courses including Personal Finance, Physical Education.

High School English Teacher

Various

- Created & taught custom ESL course in Dubai for medical professionals
- Substitute taught throughout Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan publics schools
- Assistant taught first grade — heavy focus on writing, reading comprehension & fluency
- Created & taught custom ESL course 1:1 via virtual personal tutoring

English Teacher

Found, planned, and led service projects on the ground. Working with local organizations and individuals, created meaningful opportunities for volunteers to serve. Learned, what seemed to be, every leadership lesson under the sun. 

Service projects included:
- Medical & mental health clinics in various parts of India
- Working within an orphanage & an autism centre in Dubai, UAE
- Serving alongside a growing church in Oklahoma

Service Director

Working with people is hard. 

As a kid, I struggled to make friends.
I was annoying. Talked too much. Didn't listen enough.
Always said the wrong thing.

As an adult, it got way harder. Especially at work.
My boss once cut me off, told me I was being unacceptable. 
I had no idea why. I was just being honest?

These were my default settings.

As an adult, I learned how to work well with others. 
I learned every lesson the hard way. I apologized a lot. 
I read books. I had great mentors. I tried. 
And I grew.

Then I transitioned into software engineering.
During interviews, people kept commenting on my EQ. That my ability to work well with others set me apart. 

I figured they were just being nice.
I feared that my non-traditional background would actually put me behind everyone.
I didn't assemble circuit boards as a kid or tinker with a raspberry pi.
But then I started working as a SWE and felt it: my people skills leveled up my career.

These were my learned settings.

My decade of experience learning soft skills helped me with the majority of my work:
- Being persuasive and empowering others
- Working well with difficult people
- Giving and receiving feedback wisely
- Writing code and docs with others in mind
- Translating vague ideas into clear tickets
- Managing stress with realistic boundaries
- Forging real relationships with colleagues

I fell in love with TypeScript. Became a great debugger. A lover of learning. 

I'm good at tech, sure.
But it's my soft skills that managers, skip-levels, and colleagues come to me for.
It's how, in less than two years, I went from beginner to Senior Software Engineer. 

We think the technical challenges will be the hardest part.
But then that Senior won't answer your questions.
Your manager is too busy for you.
Your teammate ghosts your PR comments.
And you realize: the people part is what makes or breaks your growth.

Having mentored over 100 developers, I've seen it again and again:
It's not just about clean code. It's about clear communication. 
Because the majority of work involves other people.

And just like a coding language, you can learn every single soft skill.

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