Pulkit Bansal - Senior Kotlin Developer
Pulkit Bansal - Senior Kotlin Developer
Education
Examination Institute/University Year CGPA/ Percentage
M.Tech in CSE IIIT - Hyderabad 2016-2018 8.61/10
B.Tech in CSE USICT,Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi 2016 77.11 %
XII St. Mark’s Sr. Sec. Public School, New Delhi - CBSE 2011 81.6 %
X St.Mark’s Sr. Sec. Public School, New Delhi - CBSE 2009 91.6 %
Work Experience
• Technical Lead - Founding Team@ ShyftLabs, Gurgaon [May’23 - Present]
◦ currently leading teams consisting of 17 members spread across 5 micro-services, both off-site and on-site.
◦ Led 0-1 product development for Retail Media Network, overseeing a team of 4 engineers to create backend
with Spring Boot, Kotlin, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Elastic Search and Redis.
◦ Architected, developed and documented secure API integration solutions with API Key Authentication for
third-party partnerships.
◦ Architected and developed critical features like time-zone sensitive data, credit card payment, real-time
dashboard, dual-auth with JWT and Auth0 IDP.
◦ Led a POC to ingest 100M daily hits on Data Platform, offering essential modules for Data Team, using
PostgreSQL, multi-threading, and Kafka.
Freelancer @ Candor Health, New Delhi [December’22 - March’23]
◦ Designed a NER tagger, efficiently identifying medical worker records on web pages.
Senior Software Developer @ Sentieo, New Delhi [8 November’21 - 14 November’22]
◦ Led the creation of a service for real-time news clustering in financial sectors.
◦ Developed a sentiment analysis model tailored for financial data insights.
◦ Developed a NER model, enhancing data extraction from financial content.
Full Stack Developer @ DeepenAI, Hyderabad [3 August’20 - 27 October’21]
◦ Developed applications optimizing data calibration from diverse sensors.
◦ Architected backend for customer quality checks in autonomous vehicle data annotations.
◦ Key experience in setting up product eco systems on Azure, AWS & GCP
◦ Developed productivity features for a bespoke efficiency application for the business
• Senior Software Engineer @ Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore [7 June’18 - 31 July’20]
◦ Enhanced Bixby with context transfer capabilities between user utterances.
◦ Contributed to SmartHome platform, integrating third-party devices in Samsung IoT.
◦ Developed Information Extraction and Inference system, for User based Knowledge Graph.
Major Projects
• Tail-Query to Head-Query Mapping for Search Engines [Sep’17 - Nov’17]
◦ Addressed a real-world challenge to enhance user search experience.
◦ Investigated concept mapping, click-through data, and semantic similarity to decipher query structures and
user intent.
◦ Mapped tail to head queries using entity linkage, neural networks, and handcrafted features.
• Wiki Search Engine: Search Engine for Wikipedia Documents [Aug’17 - Sep’17]
◦ Developed an offline search engine targeting a 60GB Wikipedia dump.
◦ Indexed a dump reduced to 25%, achieving query results in under 2 seconds.
Skills
Languages C++, Java, Python, Kotlin, JavaScript
Frameworks & Libraries Django, Spring Boot, Pandas, Numpy
Backend & Database Tech MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, GraphQL,
Kafka, Auth0
Platform & Cloud Services Linux, AWS Lambda, Azure Kubernetes Service, Jupyter
Positions of Responsibility
• Teaching Assistant at IIIT-Hyderabad [Aug’17 - Nov’17]
◦ Assisted professor with Discrete Maths and Algorithms course.
Scholastic Achievements
• Honored on the Dean’s Merit List for Monsoon 2016 and Spring 2017, ranking in the top 10
• Achieved AIR 1142 in GATE-2016, standing out among 1,31,803 participants.