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Software Engineer
Instagram · Full-time
Dec 2021 - Present
• 3 yrs 5 mosBuilding new features across surfaces like Messaging, Notes, Maps, Reposts, Profile, as well as prototyping experimental features.
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Software Engineer
Meta · Full-time
Dec 2021 - Present
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Software Engineer
Bloomberg LP · Full-time
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
• 2 yrs 7 mosWorked on the Remote Platforms team to build software that allowed both customers and employees to access Bloomberg services remotely.
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Graduate Research And Teaching Assistant
Virginia Tech · Part-time
Nov 2017 - May 2019
• 1 yr 7 mos• Graduate Research Assistant for a NASA-funded project to simulate fabrics for use in space.
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for a full-stack web development course in the Department of Computer Science, helping students build apps using wireframes, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and Amazon Web Services.
• Research Assistant for the Pamplin College of Business, discovering and implementing ways to scrape the SEC website for relevant data (Department of Accounting & Information Systems).
• Teaching Assistant at the Pamplin College of Business, to help students use technology in business contexts (Department of Business Information Technology).
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Software Engineer Intern
MicroStrategy
May 2018 - Aug 2018
• 4 mos• Built a plugin to bring natural language generation capabilities into MicroStrategy's business intelligence and analytics suite.
• Sped up the load and render times of the stories, got rid of redundant data calls, and cleaned up the UI working around the many limitations of the internal framework.
• Discovered and cleared up a bottleneck leading to a 400% increase in the runtime speed of the plugin.
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Senior Software Developer
Contentserv · Full-time
Feb 2016 - Jul 2017
• 1 yr 6 mos• Built a media server using Python and Django, that interfaced with swiftclient, FFmpeg, Ghostscript and ImageMagick, that could receive and save multiple formats of media (images, videos, and documents) and also convert them to browser-renderable formats.
• Created numerous front-end modules using JavaScript and ReactJS using the Flux architecture.
• Set up an event-based email notification system in Java within the Spring framework.
• Developed a POC using TensorFlow to automatically classify and tag images uploaded to the media server.
• Set up Linux servers to support required software, identified and extended open source libraries to fit project requirements, and assisted in the training of new recruits.
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Software Engineer
Self-employed
Jun 2015 - Feb 2016
• 9 mosCreating and designing apps and scripts for mobile, web and desktop.
http://www.sourabh.io/projects
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