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title: "Abhishek Birhade - Software Engineer in Austin | Tal"
description: "Meet Abhishek Birhade, Software Engineer | MS CS @ Gatech based in Austin. AI stack includes claude code, codex, and cursor."
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# Abhishek Birhade on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer \| MS CS @ Gatech

## About

Passionate about technology\. Committed to excellence, integrity and delivering results\. GitHub profile \- https://www\.github\.com/the\-lotuseater Leetcode profile \- https://leetcode\.com/thelotuseater/

## Location

Austin

## AI stack

claude code

codex

cursor

## Work experience

Software Engineer at Apple, Jul 2021 \- Present · 5 yrs 3 mos, Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area, system design, backend, devops\.

Full Stack Engineer at Schneider, Feb 2020 \- Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos, Green Bay, Wisconsin Metropolitan Area, ● Created responsive, appealing and user\-friendly UI using REACT JS and Material UI to build internal UI web UI for business/client management\. Managed the state of the application using React Hooks\. ●Received appreciation email from Tech Lead with visibility to Tech Director single handedly carrying developmental efforts in crucial periods for a whole month\. ● Secured APIs with OAuth2 technology\. Built a custom JWT validation library to dynamically validate JWT tokens as an enterprise tool\. ● Containerizing Services using Docker and k8s\. Configured pods using k8s files and ensured availability of deployed app using HTTP based Readiness and Liveliness Probes\. ● Used Azure Application Insights for monitoring the traces, requests of Azure Kubernetes Services and other components and alerting other application teams in case of exceptions if needed\. ● Worked with stateless functions using HTTP triggered Azure functions to cut tickets with OnPremises BSM Service in case of lags in Kafka\. ● Wrapped services in Azure APIM and applied policies such as caching tokens, forwarding requests, for validating JWT against Azure tenants\. ● Built a Kafka Producer Service using Spring Boot from scratch for publishing messages to Kafka cluster for consumption by marketing teams\. ● Built a multithreaded bulk API to import 10000\+ requests, apply validations/processing and save them using Spring Data MongoDb in under 10secs\. ● Drove the enterprise strategy to set up security for ESP enabled clusters in Kafka for Spring Boot services \(producer and consumer\) using Kerberos authentication\. ● Interacted with Azure AD B2C using Java SDK Graph Client for Read and delete operations on AAD user profiles\. ● Built an email service using Spring Boot using SendGrid to send Email Invitations to be used as an enterprise cloud email service\. ● Exposed APIs \(GET/PUT\) for notification status logging for interacting with Twilio using NodeJS \(Express JS\) in a multithreaded environment\.

## Education

Bachelor of Science \(BS\) with Honors, Mathematics with a conc\. in Comp\. Sci and a minor in Economics, Georgia State Honors College

Master of Science \- MS \(ML focus\), Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

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