Avais Pagarkar
Senior Software Engineer at Airbnb
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAvais Pagarkar is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building distributed systems and storage infrastructure, currently driving distributed storage work at Airbnb after modernizing DynamoDB storage architecture at AWS. He combines systems engineering with applied ML/NLP experience—having contributed solutions to Andrew Ng’s Coursera assignments and worked on Alexa query correction and reminder automation features. Avais has practical experience launching cross-region archival services that raised log durability to "nine nines," showing a focus on reliability at scale. His background spans internships and open-source mentorship through Google Summer of Code and CloudCV, reflecting a mix of research-minded problem solving and production delivery. Comfortable across Python, Java, NodeJS and orchestration tooling, he often touches low-level data processing and integration code that underpins ML workflows. Based in New York, he brings both hands-on implementation skills and a track record of shipping resilient, large-scale backend systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Johns Hopkins Whiting School of EngineeringHSC Computer Science, HSC Computer Science at Kishinchand Chellaram College of Arts Commerce and ScienceBachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering
English, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
json-parser10
json10
jsonp10
machine-learning10
parsing10
data-processing9
matlab9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
AvaisP/machine-learning-programming-assignments-coursera-andrew-ng
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Solutions to Andrew NG's machine learning course on Coursera
Role in this project:
Data Scientist
Data ScientistContributions:9 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 22 days
Contributions summary:Avais's commits primarily focus on modifications to the `loadjson.m` file within the `lib` directory, indicating changes related to JSON parsing functionality. Based on the commit messages, the user appears to be modifying the underlying library code that is used in machine learning assignments. This involvement suggests the user's role is centered on data processing and integration within the machine learning context.
pythondata-scienceandrew-ngmachine-learning-coursemachine-learning
djunicode/resources
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
List of resources to get started with software development.
Contributions:11 commits, 19 PRs, 15 pushes in 11 months
htmxjavascriptpythonget-started
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