Esha Datta
Senior Software Engineer at Hum
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolEsha Datta is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and scaling production services, currently at Hum after leading R&D at Crossref. She has a strong track record designing global REST APIs, automating deployments with Terraform/Docker, and accelerating legacy pipelines to reduce release times dramatically. Esha blends data engineering and ML experimentation—using Spark, scikit-learn, LLMs and Hugging Face tools—for tasks like journal classification and multilingual NER. Her background in library science and cultural heritage digitization informs a practical focus on information discovery and sustainable, user-centered tooling. Comfortable leading distributed teams and communicating architecture to stakeholders, she pairs technical depth with a knack for turning messy, large-scale data problems into reliable services.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MLIS, Library Science, MLIS, Library Science at University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeCertificate, Artificial Intelligence, Certificate, Artificial Intelligence at Columbia UniversityBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Birmingham-Southern College
English
Github Skills (30)
api10
nodejs9
validating9
search-interface9
json-schema7
schema7
json7
schema-validation7
rest-api5
rest5
gitlab5
rfc4
consistency3
emacs3
sketchup3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CrossRef/cr-search
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
Crossref search interface
Contributions:3 releases, 158 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year
searchcrossrefsearch-interface
ror-community/ror-snapshot
Nov 2018 - Dec 2018
Codebase for org-id
Contributions:1 release, 26 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
sqforg-modeemacsrfccodebase
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.