Ajit Sharma Kasturi

Software Enginner Intern

ResMed•  May 2024 - August 2024•  San Diego, CA

* Developed a full-stack web application (Config Dash) using Node.js, React-TypeScript, and SQL, providing an intuitive interface to manage subscriptions between 250+ vendors and ResMed's internal systems, improving operational efficiency by 30x. * Engineered REST APIs using AWS Lambda, CDK and API gateway to seamlessly handle over one million incoming requests efficiently. * Integrated a CI / CD workflow to automate application builds, unit testing and hosting on AWS S3 bucket.

Software Engineer

D.E. Shaw•  July 2021 - June 2023

Developed a user-friendly visualization tool utilizing React and Python for analyzing and computing statistics across thousands of filters. Designed an in-memory caching layer and query optimizer (using OOPS concepts) for web app to efficiently cache most recently used, high computation queries, improving application's performance by 30 percent. Refreshed stale cache entries by listening to backend source cache updates via a Kafka mechanism. Employed customized LRU policy for handling cache evictions. Automated weekly risk report generation and emails using Python-based in-house technologies and Microsoft Excel’s conditional formatting features. Collaborated with risk analysts on a biweekly basis and integrated their inputs to enhance the application

Software Engineer Intern

Mathworks•  May 2020 - June 2020

Designed and implemented a plugin to add or remove 3D models in Gazebo environment in C++, leveraging OOPS concepts. Added custom key functionality to add or remove multiple models. Integrated plugin into Matlab Robotics Toolbox included in R2021a version.

Columbia University, New York

Computer Science, MS•  August 2023 - Present•  GPA: 4.2

Courses: Advanced Databases, Cloud Computing, Large Scale Distributed Systems, NLP, Cryptography, Advanced Software Engineering. Teaching Assistant: Application Development for Social Impact, Computer Systems for Data Science (concepts related to Distributed Systems, Transactions, Apache Spark).

IIT, Indore (Indian Institute of Technology)

Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech•  July 2017 - June 2021•  CGPA: 9.65

GPA: 9.65 / 10 (Institute Silver Medalist, Department topper). Courses: Data structures and Algorithms, Database Management, Software Engineering, Parallel Computing, Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Computational Intelligence. IIT Indore Competitive Programming Club Leader: Conducted programming competitions on Codeforces and Codechef based on various data structures and algorithms.