United States

Back-end

AI/ML Engineering

B. Tech

Bhumik Thakkar

Senior Software Engineer

Communication

Problem-solving

Time management

Empathy

Team player

Presentation skills

Conflict resolution

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Python

Java

Collaboration

Project management

AI/ML

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Building the next generation of near real time stream processing pipeline for WhatsApp Business Messaging's pricing pillar to support to growing scale and variety of features on this new pricing platform.

Leading multiple projects involving architectural changes to increase the service availability by 0.1%

Advancing Search as a Public API in Phase 2 with new features by coaching a team of three developers

Mentoring junior developers on the team to help them ramp up on the team and deliver quality work

• Part of enterprise search team under Bing; lead end-to-end features for clients such as Outlook desktop and Web.
• Design and develop highly flexible, scalable and performant restful API on microservice architecture.
• Adapt the the search API to open-source standards such as ElasticSearch.
• Handle all client communication, feature requests, operational readiness, instrumentation and bug triaging.
• Initiated and delivered a cross team effort to improve developer agility by working with multiple teams.
• Designed and developed various tools for live site debugging.

Develop and test web-services using Java, Spring, Spring Boot,TestNG and Mockito.

Participated in three hack projects and developed working prototypes using Spring-Boot & Python Django.

Volunteered as a Python developer for an in-house tool.

Received four awards in various categories from Jun 2015 - Jun 2016.

Lead project release and delivered high quality code.

Developed tagging module for Kinesis console; link to this module: https://console.aws.amazon.com/kinesis/home
Lead product-launch and perform operational review by working on metrics, dashboards, alarms/monitors and SOPs
Design mock-ups, suggest ideas for user-experience and get involved in various project-design related discussions
Develop UI using Google Web Toolkit, perform various validations on user inputs and maintain balance between user-experience and security against attacks caused by malicious inputs
Extensively test the application by writing number of unit and integration test-cases using TestNG and Mockito
Prepare documentations such as project-wiki, user-guide and detailed java-doc comments

Course: Software Analysis and Design, Jan 2014 - May 2014
Carry out extensive research on topics such as Software as a Service(SaaS) and Software Oriented(SOA) Computing
Provide significant inputs in designing the course material and assist the students with the coursework

Course: Principles of Programming Languages Using Java, Aug 2013 – Dec 2013
Develop and conduct lab sessions on basic concepts of Java and Programming Language
Provide tutoring to 135 students and occasionally lecture on the topics such as method overloading and class-objects
Compile and give inputs to the course material and evaluate/provide feedback on students’ deliverables

Java Development & Training:
Completed four months of Java training with CGPA 4.5/5.0
Designed & developed an online job portal using JSP, JSF, JPA and Oracle Database.

Performance Testing (Jmeter, Loadrunner and RPT):
Actively participated in identifying as well as designing critical test scenarios for the clients 	Received appreciation from peers and supervisors for showing great adaptability, versatility and for handling the successful executions of two critical projects simultaneously. 

SOA Performance Testing (iTKO Lisa):
Analyzed the test results, identified areas of improvements and lucidly articulated the results to the clients
Explored various tools to carry out Proof Of Concepts for new clients and new requirements
Coordinated and contributed within teams of 4-10 members. Executed cross-functional teams’ communications
Formulated and maintained the knowledge documents to standardize best practices and tool usage guidelines

Automation and functional testing (QC aka ALM, QTP):
Extensively used QC for static testing & test case management. Used QTP for automation & report generation.

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