Vivek Bhat
Principal Software Engineer at Hughes
Germantown, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolVivek Bhat is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, real-time systems and Big Data pipelines for enterprises like Intel, Microsoft, Amazon, and Hughes. A certified AWS Solutions Architect and Developer, he specializes in Apache Flink, AI/ML-driven streaming analytics, and infrastructure-minded DevOps practices that turn billions of data points into actionable insights. He combines hands-on backend engineering—evident from contributor work refactoring peer-review logic in the NSF-supported Expertiza project—with leadership in Agile delivery, rapid prototyping, and clean, maintainable code. Based in Germantown, MD, Vivek is known for taking end-to-end ownership of complex systems and for bridging infrastructure and application concerns to accelerate production-ready outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Jamia Millia Islamia
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
reviewboard10
ruby-rails10
peer10
rails10
refactoring10
code-review10
ruby10
heroku6
javascript6
ggplot6
apscheduler6
django6
docker4
dockers4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
expertiza/expertiza
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Expertiza is a web application through which students can submit and peer-review learning objects (articles, code, web sites, etc). The Expertiza project is supported by the National Science Foundation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily focused on refactoring and improving the functionality related to `metareview_response_maps` within the Expertiza application. They made several code changes in the `app/models/assignment.rb` and `app/models/review_response_map.rb` files, likely optimizing the process for selecting and managing meta-reviews. Furthermore, the user updated the application to use `find_by` instead of `where.first` in `ReviewResponseMap` class and removed the double iteration in `metareview_response_maps`. They also updated the setup.sh and docker files.
nationalpeer-reviewexpertiza-wikidjangoexpertiza
VivekBhat/vivekbhat.github.io
Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:507 commits, 399 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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