I am a Software Engineer with 8 years of experience. I build awesome tools in the world of Identity and Access Management. I know about backend technologies, scripting, API architecture and microservices. I am passionate about developing useful tools and large-scale systems that help millions of people.
See the awesome things I build and what I did in school!
May 2022 - February 2024
August 2018 - May 2022
April 2016 - August 2018
August 2014 - February 2016
August 2010 - August 2014
My cool experiments over the years
Built a REST API that translates chat commands and time to a universal format, sends data to another service so it can fetch calendar from Zimbra Calendar API. Enabled quick meeting scheduling from chat within seconds.
Fetched better results, as posts and suggested subreddits, for a search query, form Reddit by using Reddit API and built a REST API service to provide this functionality. It was an improvement over the subpar quality of Reddit website / app search results.
Extracted mutual friends from a social network graph of 50,000 users and recommended up to 10 new friends to each user using MapReduce on a local Hadoop cluster.
Created an app to find food trucks in real time on Google Maps with an application that queries to Google Maps API, using Python and SQLAlchemy.
Calculated statistics such as frequent hosts, frequent endpoints, failed requests, failed endpoints for one day and month from an Apache Server Log File hosted on a local Apache Spark cluster, using pyspark.
Implemented insert, query and delete operations like a database to access and modify the key-value pairs of data in a Chord distributed system built in Android consisting of phones as nodes.
Achieved an accuracy of over 95% in classifying handwritten digits by training a 3 layer Perceptron neural network, in Python, using features from 50,000 handwritten digits in MNIST dataset.
Served top 3 contextual advertisements alongside the news results, based on search keyword, by implementing an ad-serving application, on Apache Solr platform and using Java, Servlets, Javascript and Apache Tomcat. Ad Serving algorithm was based on combination of Cost per click (CPC), bid price, relevance of the advertisement to both the search as well as the query.
Some stuff that I am great at!
I have sound experience in design of REST, SOAP, RPC-based APIs. I have made API design diagrams and documentation, held technical discussions and API specs.
I have built CIAM integrations featuring authentication, authorization, user lookups. I also have worked on features such as SSO, MFA and session management.
Worked on building CI / CD pipelines, managing VMs in OCI, server-side scripting, load testing and improving efficiency of Zimbra (email) servers.
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gauravk1001@gmail.com
Mobile: +1 (716) 981 9480