Georgia Institute of Technology

Charotar Institute of Technology

Navrachana Higher Secondary School

Senior Software Engineer at ClassDojo

We’re on a mission is to give communities of teachers, parents, and students the power to change education from the ground up, in every classroom in the world.

ClassDojo is a communication platform that helps teachers, parents, and students share what’s happening throughout the school day using photos, videos, and messages. It also helps teachers bring the most progressive ideas in education -- like SEL and personalized learning -- to their classrooms in easy ways that students love.

With ClassDojo, classrooms and schools become close-knit communities, connected by the shared belief that they will improve education together.

We’re one of the fastest growing education technology companies of all time, used and loved by millions of teachers, parents, and students in over 50% of US schools, and 180 other countries. ClassDojo is backed by top investors including Paul Graham, Y Combinator, SV Angel, SoftTech VC, General Catalyst, Shasta Ventures and others. Our team is made up of engineers, designers and educators from around the world, with deep backgrounds in public and charter schools, as well as from Facebook, Google, Dropbox, Airbnb, Amazon, Y Combinator and more.

If you're excited about having impact in education at massive scale, we should talk!

ClassDojo

Staff Engineer

Skills: Team Leadership · Amazon EC2 · Research and Development (R&D) · Cloud Computing · Communication · Databases · Project Management

Knewton

Senior Software Engineer

Member of technology platform team - working on developing scalable services that handle nearly 600 transactions per second.
- Contributing to services that form the Adaptive Learning technology stack.
- Automation tools for handling AWS stacks using CloudFormation.
- Internal service load testing system with big data. 
- Improve scalability: identify bottlenecks then adapt service platform.
- Inter-service communication protocols.
- Graph Data services.
- On/Off heap caching design.

Software Engineer

Developed technology platform services for handling data transactions, merchant integration and data analysis for trend forecasting.
- Financial data stream processing.
- Client-integration API design and implementation.
- Business and technical communication with clients for partner integration.
- Credit card fraud detection protocol design and implementation. Experience with Paypal, Mastercard, Amex, Visa and other payment gateways.
- Internal/External service APIs development and maintenance.
- Experience with Redis as off-heap cache.
- Experience with Solr/Lucene search stacks.
- Experience with Jboss web containers.

Next Jump

Software Engineer, Data Tracking and Transactions

Developed a custom, scalable, "Product Search" stack using Apache Solr. Handled upwards of 85-million-items for search indexing.

Software Engineering Intern

Dr. J Says is a web-based application that recommends personalized meal combinations from available menu items based on a user's health profile. These recommendations are generated using an algorithm created by modifying the knapsack model in optimization theory so as to extend its scope to multidimensional resource constraints (Leung, 2004).

(Usable Health) Doctor J Says

Graduate Student Assistant

Developed several modules of the Hospital Workflow Automation platform.

Tata Consultancy Services

Microsoft

Microsoft Student Partner Lead

Organized and initiated the "Special Interest Groups" amongst students to help them partake in going beyond the curriculum to learn by self motivated projects.

Computer Society of India

Student Head - CITC Branch

Conducted free of cost, peer-education sessions across the country. Delivered lectures, hands-on-lab sessions to provide technology access to engineering students.

Urjit Singh Bhatia