GAUTAM BHAT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Contact Information Masked On This Page** EDUCATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BOSTON UNIVERSITY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, BOSTON, MA Degree: MS, Expected Graduation: May 2017 Major: Computer Science, GPA: 3.8/4.0 SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, INDIA Degree: B.Tech, Graduated: June 2015 Major: Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Thesis: Detecting and Analyzing Communities in Social Network Graphs for Targeted Marketing (Social Network Analysis) SKILLS AND ABILITIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proficient in: Java, Typescript, React, Javascript, MySQL, HTML, CSS, jQuery, Git, PostgreSQL, Redux, Docker, Node.js, Express.js, Jest, Enzyme, PHP Familiar with: TypeORM, Memcached, AWS, OpenCV, Python, Scikit-learn, MapReduce, Go, MongoDB, Laravel, Selenium EXPERIENCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ### Software Engineer **Blend Labs**, San Francisco, CA – (Jun 2020 - Mar 2023) - Played a crucial role in delivering time-sensitive features for key customers, ensuring successful go-live events and meeting critical deadlines. - Mentored junior developers and interns through frequent pair programming sessions, fostering skill development and knowledge sharing within the team. - Collaborated with senior engineers to define roadmaps, feature priorities, and drive the successful execution of projects. - Spearheaded the development of a loan duplication workflow, which was adopted by all production customers within a year, significantly streamlining loan officers' ability to copy loan data between applications in mere seconds. - Led the creation of the loan scenario sharing workflow, a time-saving feature that enabled lenders to quickly generate and compare loan products side-by-side, allowing borrowers to choose from financing options and cash-to-close variances. This feature was adopted by 100+ customers, including multiple top 10 US banks, and unblocked the national rollout for one of Blend's top strategic customers. Utilized React/Redux and PostgreSQL to build a user-friendly interface for sharing multiple loan options from a single application ([Blend Loan Officer Toolkit](https://blend.com/products/features/loan-officer-toolkit/)). - Consolidated business logic across multiple frontends into a single microservice, reducing code duplication and maintenance efforts. - Optimized the production DB by removing bloat, deleting 2.5M rows without downtime, and improving database performance. - Improved developer productivity by leading efforts to document features and standardizing node debugging capabilities for multiple microservices. - Established as the team's go-to expert for technical help and context, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing. ### Software Engineer, Applications **C3.ai**, Redwood City, CA – (Jul 2017 - April 2020) - Implemented custom semantic version range parsers in the C3 platform, streamlining the upgrade path for dependencies and improving the deployment experience for customers and internal teams. - Architected on-premise trial for banking client, reducing application review time from 3 months to 1 day, leading to over $1M in subsequent projects, and enabling business expansion in Asia. - Built low-code/no-code Data Studio, enabling users to rapidly set up, test, and preview data ingestion pipelines. - Developed metadata-driven React components for ML Studio, reducing configuration time and improving user experience. - Enhanced code coverage reporting for JavaScript tests on the CI pipeline, contributing to the team's achievement of a 90% test coverage goal for all modules. RELEVANT PROJECTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MapReduce Library for Go: Built a MapReduce library to implement word count in sequential and distributed modes of operation, and wrote a master program to hand out tasks to workers and handle failures. (Go) Meetcute - A Modern Dating App: Working in an agile team to develop a web and mobile-based dating app with neural network-based profile matching and recommendations. (React, Meteor.js) Face Expression Analysis During Student Learning: Utilized Affectiva to visually monitor students, and devised a more accurate emotion classification model from the collected data using neural networks and logistic regression. (C++, Python) Object Recognition and Tracking: Utilized techniques in computer vision such as segmentation, thresholding, and template matching to identify and track objects in various scenes, as well as recognize hand gestures. (OpenCV) NN-based Poker Bot: Implemented a single-hidden layer feedforward neural network for poker hand classification, achieving 94.8% accuracy, and used it to devise a playing strategy against human opponents. (MATLAB) Web-based Photo Social Sharing App: Designed, implemented and documented a database system for a web-based photo social sharing application, as a part of a course project. (PHP, JavaScript, MariaDB) Fantasy Football: Created an interactive fantasy soccer web application for the intra-university soccer league, with 20% of all students registering with the app within 24 hours. (PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL) Conference Room Booking System: Developed a conference room booking web application for the university administration. (PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, MySQL) Music Management Utility: Made a music management utility for bash shell, to search music, create playlists, and play songs via VLC extension, as a part of a course project. (Shell script) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - GitHub: [github.com/gautambhat](https://github.com/gautambhat) - LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/bhatgautam](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhatgautam/) - Languages: English (fluent), Hindi (native) - Hobbies: Playing soccer, playing guitar, going on scenic road trips, hiking, prog music, futile attempts at pondering the true nature of our reality REFERENCES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available upon request