Aravind Vaddi

vav263@nyu.edu

Experience

Software Development Engineer at Amazon (AWS), Seattle, August 2021 - Present

  • Working on an energy platform to enable fast storage, processing and analysis of data from millions of IoT devices

Application Programmer at Wells Fargo, Hyderabad - India, July 2018 - July 2019

  • Optimized critical Python, Perl and Shell scripts for server migration
  • Identified redundancies in Autosys job sets by 13% to fix job structure for optimality and conformity
  • Decreased failures to 0% by automating loading of Singapore exchange rates using REST APIs
  • Worked on fixing realtime bugs and crashes on an ETL style regulatory reporting data warehouse
  • Participated in Google’s Re-skilling India Program and verified as an expert in Python

Technical Intern at Wells Fargo, Hyderabad - India, Jan 2018 - June 2018

  • Worked on indexing existing systems with over 8000 active jobs
  • Monitored data loads of two biggest (~200 jobs) systems of a data warehouse

Education

New York University, New York City, May 2021

Master of Science in Computer Science, CGPA: 3.81 / 4.00

Coursework:

  • Application Security
  • Big Data
  • Design And Analysis Of Algorithms
  • Information Visualization
  • Intro to Operating Systems
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Security
  • Programming Languages
  • Selected Topics in Computer Science: Cloud Computing
  • Special Topics in Computer Science: Intro to Java

Honors:

  • Merit scholarship for undergraduate achievements

Technical Skills

Skills:

  • AWS tools: Elastic Search, Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS, SNS, S3, Rekognition, Lex
  • Git, Github, CI/CD
  • ReactJS, NextJS, D3.js
  • Linux CLI / Shell scripting
  • Spark, Kakfa

Languages:

I currently work with TypeScript and Java but am very comfortable with all the below languages.

  • Java / Kotlin
  • TypeScript / JavaScript
  • Python
  • C

Other Activities

Course Assistant at New York University, New York City, January 2021 - May 2021

  • Automated some of the grading using scripts to extract text from PDFs and validating using regular expressions and hash tables
  • Graded assignments and held office hours to help students with doubts and questions about the subject matter

Graduate Orientation Leader: New York University, Jan 2020 - Jan 2020

  • Part of a team of 15 graduate orientation leaders to organize Spring 2020 orientation for about 200 students.

CSAW'19 Student Volunteer: New York University, Nov 2019 - Nov 2019

  • Helped with the distribution of badges and other materials, provided guidance to guests and participants for the events and workshops during the Cyber Security Awareness Week of 2019.

Alumni Mentor: JNTUH Computer Science Department, July 2018 - Dec 2018

  • Undertook web design and development infomation sessions for undergraduate students
  • Conducted a hackathon on web development

Head of IT Services: JNTUH Model United Nations, Sept 2015 - Feb 2016

  • Organized a group of volunteers working on social media, marketing and participant support
  • Developed and managed a website, bringing in over 350 participants from around the world