Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Francisco Bay Area
Twitch
Software Engineer II
September 2016 to October 2018
San Francisco Bay Area
Indeed.com
Software Engineer
May 2015 to September 2016
San Francisco Bay Area
Yahoo!
Software Engineer
December 2013 to March 2015
Sunnyvale, California
Eric & Wendy Schmidt Data Science for Social Good
Data Science Summer Fellow, University of Chicago
June 2013 to August 2013
Chicago, Illinois
Wildfire Interactive, Inc. (Wildfire by Google)
Software Engineering Intern
May 2012 to August 2012
Redwood City, California
Lockheed Martin
Systems Engineering Intern
May 2010 to September 2011
Marietta, Georgia
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Undergraduate Researcher
January 2009 to August 2011
Atlanta, Georgia
Airbnb
Senior Software Engineer
San Francisco, California
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. 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.
What company does Vidhur Vohra work for?
Vidhur Vohra works for Twitch
What is Vidhur Vohra's role at Twitch?
Vidhur Vohra is Software Engineer II
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Vidhur Vohra works in the Internet industry.
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Vidhur Vohra's colleagues are James Robinson, Joe Doliner, Yang Dai, Haochen Zhao, Matt Montag, Dimitris Protopappas, Benjamin Uphues, Aleksander Janiszewski, Tim Klaws, and Delia Woehlert
📖 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
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