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Gaurang Thakur

SDE-1 @ Flipkart | Mathematics and Computing @ IIT Guwahati

Bengaluru

3+ years of work experience

Flipkart
Jul 20242 yrs 2 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Platform Optimization: Streamlined and enhanced in-house platform services at Flipkart by focusing on data ingestion and pipeline management, ensuring robust, efficient, and uninterrupted data processing workflows. Data Streaming Development: Designed, developed, and optimized Apache Flink data streaming jobs leveraging the organization's data stream and batch-processing platforms, resulting in improved data management metrics and enhanced operational efficiency. Data Topic Migration: Led the migration of data topics used in streaming jobs from legacy Apache Spark implementations to Apache Flink, improving processing capabilities, maintainability, and system performance.
KLA
May 20233 mosJul 2023

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

-Architecture and Enhancement: Designed U-Net architecture and implemented Depth-To-Space as upscaling method and FT (Focal-Tversky) Loss for improved defect segmentation blob quality. -Data Preparation: Performed thorough data cleaning and data preprocessing, including image alignment on D2Ddatasets, enhancing model performance. -Research and Optimization: Conducted literature survey, exploring diverse architectural and optimizer techniques. -Results and Innovations: Achieved 20% enhancement in AUC score and mIoU, while reducing inference time by 30% and introduced novel checkpointing method using Total Loss (Training + Validation) for model tracking.
Alcheringa, IIT Guwahati
May 20221 yr 1 moMay 2023

Guwahati, Assam, India

◦ Chief Coordinator of Concerts, the largest event held in North East India with an audience of more than 30k+. ◦ Planned and executed deals worth more than INR 4 million including Brand Activation for various companies. ◦ Coordinating national brand associations and supervising deals that generated maximum revenue for the fest. and working with the Indian Entertainment Industry to bring the topmost Indian artists to the festival. ◦ Spearheaded an elite 3 tier team of 68 executives for successful execution of all events.
Saptang Labs
May 20224 mosAug 2022

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

- Worked on curating a pipeline of a translation model specifically designed and finetuned to translate English to Hindi. – Trained Longformer2Roberta which uses allenai/longformer-base-4096 model as encoder and roberta-base model as Decoder to summarise long documents and articles. – Collected data by doing web-scrapping by using tools like BeautifulSoup.

Gaurang’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mathematics and Computer Science

Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

20204 yrs2024

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Headline

SDE-1 @ Flipkart | Mathematics and Computing @ IIT Guwahati

About

Graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Mathematics and Computer Science from IIT Guwahati in April 2024. Currently contributing as a Software Development Engineer-1 at Flipkart, focusing on platform optimization, data ingestion, and pipeline management.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

cursor

gemini

mcp

Work experience

Software Development Engineer-1 at Flipkart, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Platform Optimization: Streamlined and enhanced in-house platform services at Flipkart by focusing on data ingestion and pipeline management, ensuring robust, efficient, and uninterrupted data processing workflows. Data Streaming Development: Designed, developed, and optimized Apache Flink data streaming jobs leveraging the organization's data stream and batch-processing platforms, resulting in improved data management metrics and enhanced operational efficiency. Data Topic Migration: Led the migration of data topics used in streaming jobs from legacy Apache Spark implementations to Apache Flink, improving processing capabilities, maintainability, and system performance.

AI/ML Intern at KLA, May 2023 - Jul 2023 · 3 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, -Architecture and Enhancement: Designed U-Net architecture and implemented Depth-To-Space as upscaling method and FT (Focal-Tversky) Loss for improved defect segmentation blob quality. -Data Preparation: Performed thorough data cleaning and data preprocessing, including image alignment on D2Ddatasets, enhancing model performance. -Research and Optimization: Conducted literature survey, exploring diverse architectural and optimizer techniques. -Results and Innovations: Achieved 20% enhancement in AUC score and mIoU, while reducing inference time by 30% and introduced novel checkpointing method using Total Loss (Training + Validation) for model tracking.

Pronites Coordinator at Alcheringa, IIT Guwahati, May 2022 - May 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo, Guwahati, Assam, India, ◦ Chief Coordinator of Concerts, the largest event held in North East India with an audience of more than 30k+. ◦ Planned and executed deals worth more than INR 4 million including Brand Activation for various companies. ◦ Coordinating national brand associations and supervising deals that generated maximum revenue for the fest. and working with the Indian Entertainment Industry to bring the topmost Indian artists to the festival. ◦ Spearheaded an elite 3 tier team of 68 executives for successful execution of all events.

Machine Learning Intern at Saptang Labs, May 2022 - Aug 2022 · 4 mos, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, - Worked on curating a pipeline of a translation model specifically designed and finetuned to translate English to Hindi. – Trained Longformer2Roberta which uses allenai/longformer-base-4096 model as encoder and roberta-base model as Decoder to summarise long documents and articles. – Collected data by doing web-scrapping by using tools like BeautifulSoup.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Mathematics and Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati