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Staff Software Engineer & Tech lead for Service Discovery @Meta (in Core Infrastructure)

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Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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- Mentored many senior & staff engineers and managers. 
- Designed & built multiple systems with critical focus on scalability & reliability. 
- Solved many cross team & organization misalignments with my inter-personal skills. 

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Raviraj Achar

HubSpot

Supporting Data Infra Organization to scale databases for 10x growth.

Staff Software Engineer

The Curious Soul's Corner

Mentor and Author

Stealth Startup

Founding Staff Software Engineer

Coinbase

Leading & Building nextGen Crypto Products for Institutional investors using Coinbase Prime

Amazon

Lead the efforts on Decoupling Lambda Control Plane & Data Plane, and splitting monolith Control Plane into manageable system.

Software Development Engineer, AWS Lambda

Launched Amazon India Payments Affordability payment processor systems and architecture to enable Instant Bank Discounts, No Cost EMI.

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Payments

Manhattan Associates, Bangalore

Delivered Major Development/modifications on the Sub-Product of Warehouse Management Open System (WMOS) as a part of Supply Chain Management Product (SCOPE).

Involved in Development & Customization of Integrated Code of different Frameworks of JAVA and C++.

Tata Consultancy Services

* Contributed on the Content Management System (CMS) technology Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) PoC for the client 'Barclays'.
* Awarded as Star Performer at Initial Learning Program (ILP) at TCS, Hyderabad.
* Java Development and Front End Development work Involved

System Engineer

RoboSpecies Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

Embedded Systems Programming & Robotics Arm models building.

Distributed System?
A system where a computer you didn't even know existed in some creepy part of world, rendered your computer to fail.

That's what I debug.

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