Aakash Pydi
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (SageMaker Machine Learning Platform)
Currently working on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SageMaker Hosting team. We obsess about helping exciting data teams worldwide develop and productionize machine learning workflows in a hassle-free, cost-effective and compute-efficient fashion. See aws.amazon.com/sagemaker.

Previously worked on Cerner's Enterprise System Management (Reliability+Data Engineering) team. We worked on developing utilities and platforms for system telemetry, monitoring and data intensive analytics which helped improve the reliability and security of Cerner's technology infrastructure.

Always working on promoting a culture of curiosity, camaraderie, and compassion.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Software Development Engineer II
Currently working on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) SageMaker Hosting team. We obsess about helping exciting data teams worldwide develop and productionize machine learning workflows in a hassle-free, cost-effective and compute-efficient fashion. See aws.amazon.com/sagemaker.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Cerner Corporation
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Software Engineer
Cerner’s Observability and Resiliency Ecosystem  (Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Apache Druid, AWS, Java)
• Closely involved in system design planning, development planning and organizational strategy conversations with senior leadership. 
• Development work focused on setting up a data stream enrichment layer powered by Apache Flink, a data intensive analytics layer powered by Apache Spark and an OLAP data store powered by Apache Druid on AWS.                 

Jetstream Platform (Apache Airflow, Python) 
• Responsible for the Enterprise System Management team’s customized Apache Airflow platform which has more than 3700 daily jobs (and counting) and serves as an ETL pipeline platform within our data infrastructure. 
• Development work focused on two fronts (i) supporting new Cerner data workflows and (ii) architecture changes to make the platform more resilient and compute-efficient.
Selected Updates:
•  Implemented updates to support the near real time data ingestion of SLI metrics from New Relic,  Splunk and Zabbix using a Redis based optimization and custom airflow modules + operators.
•  Improved the efficiency and added granular back fill support for an important analytics DAG which generates daily reports on the user experience of care givers across the globe.                                        

Management Big Data Common (Kafka, Hadoop, Vertica, Java) 
 •  Updated the common module used by all the components of our ingestion framework to support payload metadata overriding by parsing payload entity keys

User Experience Monitoring Spark Prototype (Kafka, Spark, Scala)
•  Organized the User Experience Monitoring Spark Prototype development at an internal hackathon.  
•  Responsible for the team formation, development planning, subset of the coding, presentation preparation, presentation delivery. Our team received second place out of the sixteen teams from across Cerner KC, based on the primary judging metric of ‘potential value for Cerner’.
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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Cerner Corporation
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Academy Software Engineer
GitHub Time Machine (Elasticsearch, CppCMS, ReactJS)
• Spearheaded full stack design for allowing text search across branches in a given GitHub repository.  
• Implemented server-side code to index GitHub repositories on an Elasticsearch search and analytics engine. 
• Implemented client-side code to add/delete repos from the search index.
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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Computer Science (Concentration in Machine Intelligence)
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Purdue University
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Rishi Valley School
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Student Think Tank for India
Founder & President
- Lead a cross-functional team that worked to promote critical thought and civic engagement in Indian schools and colleges (https://studentthinktankforindia.com/)
- Developed partnerships with fifteen schools and colleges across eight cities
- Provided extensive mentorship to students in our core teams with a particular focus on their personal growth and career advancement
Purdue Economics Association
President, Vice President
Foundation for Democratic Reforms
Research Associate
- Prepared an in-depth report analyzing India's current account deficit in 2013 for Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan 
- Developed policy proposals for the center and state Governments with the FDR team regarding optimal strategies to reduce India's 2013 current account deficit
KARVY Financial Services Ltd.
Volunteer Financial Analyst
College of Science Scholarship Award
Purdue University College of Science
Computer Science Scholarship Award
Purdue University Computer Science Department
Analysis of Algorithms (A-)
CS381
Applied Regression Analysis (A)
STAT512
Data Mining & Machine Learning (A)
CS 373
Data Structures & Algorithms (A-)
CS251
Deep Learning (A-)
BME495
Information Systems (A+)
CS348
Introduction to Statistics (A+)
STAT350
Multivariate Calculus (A+)
MA261
Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus I (A+)
MA161
Plane Analytic Geometry and Calculus II (A+)
MA162
Probability Theory (A)
STAT416
Problem Solving and Object Oriented Programming (A+)
CS180
Programming in C (A)
CS240
Systems Programming (A+)
CS252
Web Information Search & Management (A)
CS473
Using a Generative Adversarial Network to Create Novel Artistic Images
Used a Generative Adversarial Network to create artistic images that captured the style of two Indian artists. Python, Pytorch
http://www.aakashpydi.com/gan-varma-bapu/
Real Time Classification Video Stream
A video stream that classifies images in the stream in real time using a LeNet5 convolutional neural network trained on the CIFAR100 Dataset. Python, Pytorch
http://www.aakashpydi.com/cifar100-lenet5/
Novel Framework for Sentence Classification
Replicated the key results from the paper, “A Novel Two-stage Framework for Extracting Opinionated Sentences from News Articles” (Pujari, Desai, Ganguly, Goyal). Used a combination of the Naïve Bayes classifier and the Hyperlink Induced Topic Search (HITS) algorithm to carry out fact/opinion classification of the sentences in the given corpus. Java
http://www.aakashpydi.com/Fact-Opinion-Classification/
Social Services
Purdue Circle K
Volunteer
- Volunteered at the Hannah Community Center, Lafayette, Indiana
- Volunteered at the Indiana Veteran's Home, West Lafayette, Indiana
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Farhan Tejani
Software Development Engineer at Amazon AI
Seattle, WA
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Hannah Wang
Software development engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, WA
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Michael Pham
Software Development Engineer III at Amazon
Seattle, WA
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James Sanders
Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, NY
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Evan Bedser
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
New Brunswick, NJ
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Ajay Medury
Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, WA
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Kanika Khanna
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, WA
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Yuan He
Software Development Engineer at AWS Machine Learning
Greater Seattle Area
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Aaron Keller
Sr. Software Engineer, AWS ML
Bellevue, WA
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Hangjie Zheng
Amazon - SDE I
Seattle, WA
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Dmytro Panin
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
New York, NY
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Akash Deep
Software Development Engineer In Test at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area
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Michael Meidl
Senior Software Engineer / ex-AWS / Machine Learning Platforms & Infrastructure
Seattle, WA
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Jose Valerio
Software Engineer @ Pantheon Labs. Serverless fan and many worlds enthusiast.
New York, NY
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Lokesh Puttagangappa
Associate Senior Software Engineer - Cerner Corportation
Bengaluru
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Anil Meka
Professional or Specialist at Self-employed
San Ramon, CA
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Xiangpeng Li
Senior Software Engineer at Instacart
Greater Seattle Area
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Konstantin Labun
Staff Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Seattle, WA
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Vidit Jain
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, WA
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Gaurav Kumar
SDE2
Seattle, WA
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Succefully completed another Microsoft Azure certification!!
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Purdue University
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