Vidhur Vohra's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

Software Engineer II @ Twitch Web Platforms TeamWorked on a various initiatives such as I18n, Latency, and Metrics.Worked with a variety of technologies such as Node, Javascript, Ember, and little ASP.NET. From September 2016 to October 2018 (2 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ Indeed.com • Worked on Indeed’s distributed system for sending email notifications and job alerts. Worked on increasing robustness, stability, and scaling the system.• Designed and implemented email opt-out system functionality.• Headed initiatives to improve email content/styles/subject lines that significant increases in engagement and revenue.• Lead project of two to build a consumer-facing web application (desktop/mobile) to manage job alert emails and push notifications. Released in a quarter to most major markets.• Created service and implementation to increase SEO for certain markets. Developed lossless dictionary compression scheme that decreased the artifacts size by 40%.• Mentored/ramped up five engineers to the company, team, and software engineering practices.• Technologies used: Java/Spring, Google Closure Tools, RabbitMQ From May 2015 to September 2016 (1 year 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer @ Yahoo! Worked on projects involving Hadoop, making web apps with Ember, and analytic dashboard with Node/Javascript.120% (Above and Beyond) Projects include:Working on analytics web app, using Ember and Big Data technologies including Oozie, Pig, Hadoop/MapReduce. Worked on web app to read mail lists, used Ember, Python, and Scala/PlayWinner of an internal Yahoo HackathonAndroid projects used internally From December 2013 to March 2015 (1 year 4 months) Sunnyvale, CaliforniaData Science Summer Fellow, University of Chicago @ Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good Worked with non-profit and local government agencies in the Chicago area to solve problems involving large data sets.Built a web app to predict bike station loads for bike share stations using real-time and historical data.Worked with team to evaluate Chicago’s garbage collection over the past five years, involved large data manipulation.Technologies used: Amazon Web Services, NumPy/SciPy/Pandas, Postgres, Flask, Some R. Website: dssg.io From June 2013 to August 2013 (3 months) Chicago, IllinoisSoftware Engineering Intern @ Wildfire Interactive, Inc. (Wildfire by Google) Implemented new user interface for all products with a team in a formal Scrum, Agile, and TDD environment.Worked with Ruby on Rails to implement features, document guides, and cross browser-test HTML, CSS, and Javascript. From May 2012 to August 2012 (4 months) Redwood City, CaliforniaSystems Engineering Intern @ Lockheed Martin Built a database for part ordering and tracking to provide statistics for the C-130J program, still in use.Created various tools/programs (Java, C) to automate many processes, saved department 100s of man hours.Worked for 2 summer sessions and part time throughout the school year. From May 2010 to September 2011 (1 year 5 months) Marietta, GeorgiaUndergraduate Researcher @ Georgia Tech Research Institute Flying Android:Worked with team to build a low-cost, off-the-shelf UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) integrated with a smart phone for reconnaissance and informational warfare. Designed mobile application to handle autonomous flight, live waypoint navigation, target image capture, and relaying geo-tagged images and flight information to a ground station. Further final project capabilities target tagging and visual classification of ground objects. Project was presented at the AUVSI Technology Expo.Technologies Used: Symbian C++, C, Arduino, Google MapsRobot Simulation Validation and VerificationIndependent study under the advisement of Georgia Tech professor. Researched and developed an application of a modeling framework based on port automata for verification and validation.Cognitive Engineering Center:Worked with graduate student and professor, on a human-in-the-loop experiment to determine human and robotic performance on a lunar landing task. Designed software to emulate the controls for a lunar lander and record user actions. From January 2009 to August 2011 (2 years 8 months) Atlanta, GeorgiaSenior Software Engineer @ Airbnb San Francisco, California