About Me
Hi there! I'm Prashant Khanduri
I'm originally from India. Although most of my school days were spent in India (New Delhi), a few of them slipped into Nepal (Kathmandu), Canada (Waterloo) and United States (Los Angeles)
On a day to day basis, I tell computers what to do and they seem to obey me (for the most part). I end up getting paid for some of it, the other portion ends up on a public domain
I also blog, but I haven't really scoped out the topics I'd like to talk about. For now, I'm just using it to collect ideas that I find interesting. I hope someday a pattern will emerge
You know a lot about me now! .. Ok your turn
Experience
SN126 Inc
San Fransisco, CA -- NCR, India2018 - currentCo-Founder / CTOAn open source tool that allows developers to catch bugs before they are pushed to productionDefine the open core and hosted strategies for DiffyArchitect the hosted solution with a focus on generating review insights
Affirm
San Fransisco, CA2015 - 2018Engineering ManagerPlatform teamThe team is responsible for building our own proprietary financial platform, as well as our real-time high-throughput data processing pipelineBuild and maintain the underwriting pipeline for all product flowsArchitect the offline infrastructure to be used by Data Science for iterating and improving credit and fraud models
Jawbone
San Fransisco, CA2014 - 2015Senior Software EngineerInsights & Intelligence teamThe team is responsible for building an intelligent guide that helps our users make good health choicesBuilding the core intelligence for the Smart Coach brandBuilding the Insights system and the internal CRM system to manage the insight content
Hearsay Social
San Fransisco, CA2012 - 2014Full stack developerEngagement teamTeam's goal was to keep the user engagement up and unblock any onboarding issues (growing the monthly active users)Designed and developed a notification platform for our softwareWorked on building the analytics and reporting framework
Microsoft Inc
Seattle, WA2009 - 2012SDE IIBing - RelevanceTeam was responsible for ranking the top documents in Bing's algorithmic web search results (Top 100K queries)Developing new algorithms to extract ranking signals and features from petabytes of user browsing activity logsUsing data mining and machine learning techniques to optimize user satisfaction metricsWindows LiveWorked with two separate groups (Service Management / Monetization) on delivering project critical componentsImplemented a service for syncing data from a system store to a DHCP server (for the server to hand out correct IP leases required for PXE booting)Helped design the next generation monetization solution to better target Hotmail usersInternships
Various Locations2004 - 2009InternMicrosoft CorporationWindows Live Mesh - May 2009 – Aug 2009Created an assembly that provisioned a delegated authentication token management serviceAmazon.com IncPersonalization - Aug 2007 - Dec 2007Worked on a ranking mechanism to generate a tag set which describe the list recommended itemsSun MicrosystemsComplex Systems Group - Jan 2006 - Apr 2006Participated in the design and development of a simulation infrastructure for the behavioral analysis of wireless sensor networksAmazon.com IncDigital Media Technologies - May 2005 - Aug 2005Worked on the variety of upgrades to the digital media pipeline (mainly the first internal REST client to the S3 service)Epson CanadaBarcode Recognition - Jan 2004 - Apr 2004Developed a universal 2D barcode decoding application for hand-held image-scanners
Skills
Current
LANGUAGES
TOOLS
FRAMEWORKS
Past
LANGUAGES
TOOLS
FRAMEWORKS
Activities
PROJECTS
Structure extractor: Craigslist
Transliteration: En to Hi
Emotion Recognition: Aritificial Neural Networks
Sudoku Solver: CSP
GROUPS
Asha for Education
Ekal Vidyalaya
USC Trekkers group
Engineering Exploration Volunteer
