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avantiwhenever/README.md

Hi, I'm Avanti Patil πŸ‘‹

Senior Software Engineer with 9+ years building backend systems, recommendation engines, and search β€” lately going deep on ML and information retrieval in the age of AI.

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  • πŸ”­ Currently showcasing my skills in recommendation and search systems β€” Netflix CLIP-based personalization demo, Lastest recommendation engines, and ML based Search strategies
  • πŸ’žοΈ Open to collaborating on startups and new career opportunities
  • ⚑ Fun fact: I've led hackathons, founded a women-in-tech org, and helped scale systems handling millions of trades & search services

About Me

Senior Software Engineer with an entrepreneurial mindset, focused on customer and developer happiness.

Experience across E-commerce, Finance, HR, Restaurant Tech, and Search domains:

  • Possible Finance β€” Senior Software Engineer designing loan products across multiple new cities, growing the customer base, and building tooling to improve customer engagement and outreach
  • Wayfair β€” Designed first ever semantic vector search for Wayfair's catalog from start to finish to fine relevant product for users.
  • Toast β€” Built the pipeline for the company's first Spark-based data analytics platform, cutting report processing time by 90%; also developed and scaled REST APIs
  • NSE (National Stock Exchange) β€” Built scalable systems handling millions of derivatives trades
  • VMware β€” Worked on enterprise-class disaster recovery; won a poster session award for the Availability Zones project
  • Northeastern University β€” Led agile teams delivering real-world web projects, including an MBTA group-orders automation tool and a social networking feed (1010)

I've worked in self-organizing teams ranging from 2 to 20 people, maintained code quality through CI and code review practices, and contributed to a paper on Programming Models for Distributed Computing: Futures and Promises.

Education: M.S. in Computer Science (Software Engineering), Northeastern University, Boston β€” 2016, GPA 3.79/4.0


Featured Projects

  • search β€” Semantic Search engine, Neural network based Reranker and many more experiments
  • recommendation-engine β€” Hexagonal-architecture, gRPC-based recommendation engine over the WANDS catalog, with a GraphQL gateway serving a React UI
  • netflix-personalization β€” Demo inspired by Netflix's MAPS artwork-personalization blog post, built with TMDB open data + CLIP embeddings

Community & Leadership

  • Founder & President, NU Grad Women Coders β€” supporting women in tech at Northeastern with resources to learn and lead
  • Founder & Director, HackNEU β€” a student-led hackathon for graduate and PhD students at Northeastern
  • Volunteer, Boston AR/MR Meetup β€” AR enthusiast helping organize monthly community events

Tech Stack

Java Python TypeScript Spring React PyTorch gRPC GraphQL Elasticsearch Apache Solr Apache Spark REST APIs AWS Git

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