Summary
Purva Kothari is a software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of industry experience and an MS in Computer Science from UC San Diego. She has built backend systems and APIs at scale—most recently contributing to production services at Apple after a data‑centric internship on Meta’s Music Graph where she designed ingestion pipelines, data models, and a React-based frontend for audio features. Earlier work at Oracle focused on extensible, componentized architectures for banking workflows and automation tools that reduced manual effort. Her skill set spans backend frameworks, infrastructure design, ML model integration, and entity frameworks, with hands-on experience using Spark, Presto/HiveQL, Python, and Oracle JET. She has taught multiple Python programming courses as a graduate TA, reflecting an ability to explain complex concepts clearly. Curious and interdisciplinary, she combines a chemical engineering background with CS to approach problems from unconventional angles, including prior research on GANs for music generation.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering, Minor in Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
English, Hindi