Experience

January 2026 — July 2026

Hyperface

SDE Intern · Backend Developer

Scaled a real-time Nudges & Notification system to 10–15M users/week across Email, SMS, WhatsApp, and RCS.
Built a zero-downtime PBKDF2 → HMAC-SHA256 hash migration framework for a 10x speedup.
Designed versioned REST APIs with CSV ingestion pipelines featuring row-level validation and structured error handling.
Automated AWS S3 secret management with custom Python tooling.
Replaced legacy Lambda/Glue processing with a DuckDB pipeline — 81% faster, 95–99% lower heap usage at up to 10M rows.
Cut PWA Nudges API response time by 69.1% via CompletableFuture orchestration, query consolidation, and N+1 elimination.

September 2025 — January 2026

PES University

Teaching Assistant

Problem Solving

Conduct weekly Python lab sessions and mentor students through programming assignments and projects.
Collaborate with instructors to assess student progress and refine the overall learning experience.

June 2025 — July 2025

IBM

GRM Project · zOpen Team · Remote

Ported RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) to IBM z/OS under the zOpen framework.
Set up the build environment, resolved bootstrap issues, and adapted the legacy RPM codebase for the platform.
Validated functionality and documented platform-specific changes for seamless z/OS integration.
Contributed upstream via this PR: zopencommunity/rpmport, enabling portability.
Earned the LFX zOpen Community Contributor recognition for contributions to the IBM z/OS ecosystem.