Xavier Palathingal's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

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Software Engineer @ Google Assistant NLP / Eval Mountain View, CASoftware Engineer @ Blend • Implemented a visual redesign of the customer Generated Asset Statement PDF• Designed and implemented an audit mechanism for auth tokens given to external asset data providers From November 2018 to February 2019 (4 months) San Francisco, CASoftware Development Engineer @ Amazon Alexa AI - Natural Language Understanding• Project owner for 1 yr+ effort to hand-off our ElasticSearch ingestion service to domain teams, enabling them to generate and support their own data indexer pipelines. Received positive feedback from customers.• Designed our GDPR compliance solution and led a small team to implement the solution on a tight deadline.• Developed a repository service using REST APIs in Java to store, test, and vend approved machine learning models to our customer-facing service, enabling separation of code and model deployment pipelines.• Wrote Ruby libraries to automatically create pipelines, AWS infrastructure, monitoring and other resources.• Provided operational support for and configured ElasticSearch indices to optimize latency for different datasets.• Used ABTesting and latency metrics to evaluate index cutover with different tokenizers and transformations.• As scrum master, improved sprint planning process to reduce meeting load from ~4+ hrs to ~1.5 hrs per sprint.• Mentored an intern in the design and implementation of a self-service portal for adding new special-case text normalizations to be applied during search, significantly reducing operational load caused by customer requests. From August 2015 to September 2018 (3 years 2 months) Cambridge, MASDE Intern @ Amazon Web Services • Designed and implemented a canary service in Scala to monitor health of VPC Control / Data Plane services by creating, integration testing, and then tearing down EC2 resources once a minute.• Leveraged functional programming to create a test library that improved dev experience for adding new tests. From May 2014 to August 2014 (4 months) Herndon, VASoftware Engineering Intern @ Nielsen Audio • Worked with the Mobile Engineering team to implement and test demo solutions for theirAudio sync software (primarily using STAR TV’s MasterChef India during my internship).• Completed a 40-hour iOS programming training session, which covered the basics of Mac OS X, XCode, Objective C, iOS app development, and the ARC system.• Worked with the Engineering team to plan and independently implement a Sliding BlockPuzzle applet on Android to use in future demo programs.• Features include dynamic puzzle generation (with any image), multiple puzzle sizes (3x3 –9x9), touch/drag and swipe manipulation of blocks, solution checking, and cross-devicecompatibility. From June 2013 to August 2013 (3 months) Kochi, Kerala, IndiaSummer Residential Governor’s School @ Virginia Commonwealth University • Worked in three groups through the Person, Scientist, and Community rotations to explorethe different aspects of Medical care.• Learned how to approach a given situation, carry out relevant research, and communicateeffectively across teams in order to solve an assigned case.• Had the opportunity to shadow doctors and surgeons in their native setting and observe the intricacies of how a hospital functions. From June 2010 to July 2010 (2 months) Richmond, Virginia AreaProgramming Intern @ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center • Assigned to the Systems Operations Center through the NASA Space Club Scholars program• Provisioned command line access to various functions of the Java-based frontend of theSIMSS (Scalable Integrated Multi-Mission Support System) program.• Expedited the manipulation of modules by providing suggestions to users interactively.• Added functionality for users to write scripts for easy manipulation of modules without using the mouse. From June 2009 to August 2009 (3 months) Greenbelt, Maryland