Paras Avkirkar
SDE II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParas Avkirkar is an SDE II at Amazon with a decade of software engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems across advertising, identity services, and AI-backed products. He pairs a strong academic foundation (MS in Computer Science, 3.96 GPA) with hands-on experience designing distributed pipelines and information retrieval systems that manage millions of keywords and sub-200ms search queries. His background includes building microservices, optimizing data pipelines at Media.net, and contributing problem design for HackerRank, reflecting both product-driven engineering and deep algorithmic instincts. Comfortable across Java/Spring, Python, Kafka, HBase, Redis and cloud-scale architectures, he emphasizes maintainable solutions and test-driven practices. Based in Seattle, he balances production engineering with competitive programming and contributions to interview problem curation—bringing a mix of rigorous algorithmic thinking and pragmatic systems design.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Computer Engineering, B.Tech, Computer Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.96/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.96/4.0 at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (12)
classifier7
representations7
sentence6
gru5
machine-learning4
nlp4
modeling4
json3
natural-language-processing3
json-schema3
predict2
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ParasAvkirkar/SentenceRepresentation
Oct 2019 - May 2020
GRU vs DAN baseline modeling for sentence representations
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes in 7 months
nlpgrusentencerepresentationsmodeling
ParasAvkirkar/IEEEFraudDetection
Sep 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:11 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
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