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title: "Gaurang Thakur - Software Development Engineer-1 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Gaurang Thakur, SDE-1 @ Flipkart | Mathematics and Computing @ IIT Guwahati based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, cursor, and gemini."
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# Gaurang Thakur on Tal

## 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

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