nikhil.pankaj.karnik (at) gmail.com

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Professional Experience

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August 2014-Present

Software Engineer
Zillabyte (San Francisco, CA)

• Distributed computing as a service
  
  • Backend Engineering Projects
    
    • Built Infrastructure Monitoring Service using Redis, Chef and Graphite
    • Integrated Apache Kafka for data ingestion
    • Implemented Docker containers for isolating the execution of customer code
  • Technical Evangelism
    
    • What is Lil Wayne’s PageRank?
    • Build a Global Weather Service in Under an Hour
    • Mapping the Startup Ecosystem covered in TechCrunch and Business Insider

June 2014-August 2014

Data Engineering Fellow
Insight Data Science (Palo Alto, CA)

Three Month Data Engineering Fellowship

• Developed GFX, a data pipeline and web application for analyzing relationships between geopolitical events and foreign exchange currency trends using historical FOREX data and the open source GDELT data set.

June 2012-2013

Software Engineer
Optofluidics (Philadelphia, PA)

Nanoparticle Analysis, Coating Stability, and Optical Tweezers

• Designed and implemented an automated routine to couple optical fibers with waveguides (through free space) on custom chips using a robotic stage to regulate the fiber position.

• Optimized the coupling routine for accuracy and run time (achieved O(N) from originally O(N^2) algorithm), achieving optimal results in both metrics.

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Education

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2014

Data Engineering Fellow; Insight Data Science (Palo Alto, CA)

2009-2013

BSE, Electrical Engineering; University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)

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Technical Experience

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Tools/Frameworks

• Data Systems: Kafka, Postgresql, Mysql, Redis, Storm, Spark, HDFS, Hadoop MapReduce, Hive, HBase

• Operations: Docker, Chef, AWS

• Web: Flask, Ruby on Rails

Programming Languages

• Proficient in Python , Java , Ruby

• Prior experience with C, Go, Javascript, Bash

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Random

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• Work Authorization: US Citizen