Abhilash K R
About me
Abhilash K R
I am a Software Engineer by profession.
I write code for my living
When I am not doing all these, I can be found watching movies, playing gully cricket
Experiences
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett
Education
PES University
2014 - 2018Bachelors in Computer Science
SKCH
2012 - 2014Middle & High School
Careers
Rakuten
March 2019 - Present
Senior Software Engineer
Working on scalable data platforms, Data Warehousing, ETL, large scale web scraping, stream processing
Text Mercato Pvt Ltd
August 2018 - March 2018
Software Engineer
Designed and developed data collection pipeline to crawl fashion websites. Developed ETL pipelines to ingest the crawl data to data lake. Trained and deployed machine learning models using google cloud vision for multi-label classification of fashion clothing. Product was appreciated from investors and advisors
Fastenal
Jan 2018 – May 2018
Software Engineering Intern
Developed Data Cleaning Pipeline processing gigabytes of data. Implemented Daily Automated Report Generation using SQL. Reduced Human Effort by 15%
Discount Shop
May 2017 – June 2017
Software Engineering Intern
Designed and developed end to end small scale crawler platform crawling 30-40 websites daily. Developed ETL workflows for the extraction and transformation of the crawled data. Developed REST API for the 3rd party services to consume the crawled data.
Skills
Know How and Interests
Data Architecture Kubernetes Docker MySQL Redis Streaming Apache Spark Apache Kafka REST API Design Git Data Structures for big data Big DataAwards and Achievements
- Weavy Collaboration Hack Winner - Weavy Collaboration Hackathon
- Top 8 among 100 teams - Sentient iHack Alpha
- Rakathon Winner 3rd Place - Hackathon 2021 by Rakuten
- Interapt Hacks Winner 3rd Place - Interapt Hacks by Interapt & CVS
- 3 time SPOT Award - Rakuten
Leadership
Website Link - Samarpana Charitable Trust