Omkar Reddy is a Senior Data Scientist based in New York with 11 years of engineering and research experience building production ML systems and data pipelines. At Joby Aviation he translates complex sensor and operational datasets into predictive models that drive aviation innovations, advancing from Data Scientist to Senior Data Scientist. He has a strong software engineering background from roles at Juniper and internships at Google, and has shipped scalable services on AWS and GCP. An active open-source committer and Apache PMC member, Omkar contributed bug fixes and Hadoop-era upgrades to the widely used Apache Nutch web crawler and helped integrate NASA PO.DAAC data into climate tooling. His research work includes DRL for network resilience and time-series outage forecasting, demonstrating a knack for turning synthetic experiments and live telemetry into actionable models. He pairs practical production experience with community-focused contributions, making him effective at bridging research, engineering, and open-source ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at Northeastern University
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Information and Communication Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani University
Apache Nutch is an extensible and scalable web crawler
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 63 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Omkar primarily contributed to fixing bugs and enhancing the codebase related to the Nutch web crawler. Their changes involved modifying Java files within the core Nutch project, focusing on improving documentation accuracy, and ensuring more robust behavior during job failures. The commits demonstrate expertise in the Nutch framework and the underlying Hadoop ecosystem. Furthermore, the user worked on code formatting and updating upgrade path.
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