Summary
Ronak Hegde is a Seattle-based software engineer with eight years of experience building data-centric and cloud-native systems, currently an SDE II on AWS Fargate where he focuses on capacity planning, utilization optimization, and fleet migrations. He combines a fast-track MS in Computer Science from UT Dallas with hands-on experience shipping production automation (including tools to sweep leaked EBS volumes) and building ETL pipelines and PySpark data integrations at enterprise scale. Ronak has a strong startup and product bent—from a developer internship at Cooklist to leading growth and technical initiatives in university entrepreneurship—bringing both operational rigor and user-focused outcomes. He’s comfortable across the stack, blending distributed systems, big data engineering, and machine learning pipelines, and has a track record of shrinking and refactoring codebases to improve maintainability. An engineer who wins internal innovation challenges and mentors teams, he pairs analytical depth with a practical instinct for shipping reliable systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas