Rohan Achar
Software Engineer at Amazon
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRohan Achar is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building distributed systems and performance-critical services, currently focused on making Amazon pages load faster. His PhD work at UC Irvine produced the Global Object Tracker (GoT) and a Python prototype called Spacetime, framing highly-mutable shared state as a distributed version-control problem and proving the model’s soundness while benchmarking update latency. He has industry experience across Microsoft (Bing), two Google internships, and production backend work reflected in open-source contributions like spacetime-crawler4py, where he implemented core crawler infrastructure and politeness/cache features. Comfortable across the full stack, Rohan blends rigorous research with hands-on engineering to turn formal models into practical systems. Based in Bellevue, WA, he brings a rare combination of published academic results and real-world optimization experience at hyperscale companies.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka12th std degree, CBSE, 12th std degree, CBSE at National Public School, RajajinagarDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Software Engineering at University of California, Irvine
Kannada, Tulu, Hindi, Sanskrit, English
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Github Skills (11)
crawler10
caching10
web-crawler10
python10
back-end-development10
webscraper10
webscraping10
http-request10
crawling10
configuration-management9
system-design8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Mondego/spacetime-crawler4py
Oct 2019 - Oct 2019
Yet another Web crawler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
Contributions summary:Rohan made significant contributions to the `spacetime-crawler4py` project by implementing core functionalities of the web crawler. They modified the `crawler/frontier.py`, `crawler/worker.py`, `utils/download.py`, and `utils/config.py` files to integrate a cache server for downloaded content, add politeness features, and improve overall crawler behavior. Furthermore, the user added the `is_valid` function to the `scraper.py` file to validate the URLs to be scraped and also added the necessary structure to the scraper.py file. Lastly, the user added and modified configuration settings and server registration files to set up the required infrastructure.
web-crawler
sivabalan/libSeek-web
May 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:10 commits in 16 days
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