Kaival Parikh
Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaival Parikh is a software engineer with seven years of experience building scalable search and semantic systems, currently an SDE II at Amazon in Boston. He has a strong backend focus, contributing performance and stability fixes to high-profile open-source search software Apache Lucene and now holds committer status there. At Amazon he progressed from intern to SDE II working on Amazon Product Search and Semantic Search, shipping production-grade features for large-scale retrieval. His background includes blockchain and full-stack prototypes—an Ethereum-based NFT marketplace and React/React Native clients—demonstrating a flair for applied research and rapid prototyping. Kaival combines pragmatic problem-solving with attention to algorithmic detail (e.g., KNN and graph search optimizations), making him comfortable at the intersection of systems engineering and IR research. Based in Boston and educated at BITS Pilani, he brings open-source rigor and production experience to search and recommendation challenges.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceSchool, School at Chatrabhuj Narsee Memorial SchoolJunior College Science, Junior College Science at Khar Education Societys College of Commerce and Economics
Github Skills (7)
lucene10
javas10
search-engine10
information-retrieval10
backend10
java10
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kaivalnp/lucene
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
Apache Lucene open-source search software
Contributions:5 PRs, 101 pushes, 30 branches in 1 year 5 months
kaivalnp/faiss
Dec 2024 - Apr 2025
A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.
Contributions:26 pushes, 10 branches in 3 months
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