Harshal Pandya
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarshal Pandya is a software development engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems at Amazon and AWS, with a research background in large-scale coreference resolution and probabilistic graphical models. He blends practical Scala and distributed-systems engineering—contributing refactors and core fixes to the FACTORIE probabilistic modeling toolkit—with applied NLP research from UMass Amherst under Andrew McCallum. At Oracle Labs and in academic projects he implemented asynchronous distributed inference frameworks and entity-linking models, showing strength at the intersection of ML research and systems engineering. Based in Seattle, he favors functional programming idioms and has a track record of turning research prototypes into deployable components for high-throughput pipelines.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts AmherstB.E., Computer Science, B.E., Computer Science at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (6)
refactoring10
computer-engineering10
refactor10
scala10
testing9
nlp8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
factorie/factorie
Sep 2013 - Oct 2013
FACTORIE is a toolkit for deployable probabilistic modeling, implemented as a software library in Scala. It provides its users with a succinct language for creating relational factor graphs, estimating parameters and performing inference.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Harshal's commits primarily involve refactoring and deprecation removal within the codebase. Specific contributions include removing deprecation warnings from test files and replacing manifest usage with ClassTags. Additionally, the user made changes to the `SpanVariable.scala` and `CmdOption.scala` files, indicating work on core functionalities and potentially improving code maintainability. Further work included merging branch 'fixhcoref' related to deprecation removals and implementing a dehyphenator tool.
library-softwareparametersrelationaldeployableprobabilistic-modeling
harshal-pandya/lexicons
May 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:13 commits in 1 month
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