About

Abhishek Ghosh is a highly skilled Software Developer with a wide range of interests and sound knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms. He is currently working as a Project Leader at D.E Shaw, where he is responsible for overseeing the delivery of products, engaging with customers, and driving sales. Abhishek has over 5 years of relevant experience, during which he has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. Abhishek's past experience includes working as a Software Engineer II at Microsoft, where he was a part of the Dynamics 365 team. He was responsible for seeing the product delivery end-to-end and addressing customer issues in production directly wherever applicable. Abhishek played a crucial role in re-designing the entire filter menu, which helped reduce the page load time by 25%. He also added another cache in addition to the entity metadata cache already present, which helped load the pages faster. As a part of a two-member team, Abhishek replaced the use of connections across entities with polymorphic relationships, which enabled faster access to data and massive improvement of read/write capabilities. Abhishek has also worked as a Software Engineer I at Electronic Arts (EA), where he was a part of the Player and Developer Experience team. He was the standalone resource for the development of a Software Development Kit (SDK) which is written in C++. The SDK ships to all games of EA Sports and captures information related to unfortunate events for all platforms (Android, PC, iOS, Xbox, PS4, Unix), creates an XML report and sends it to backend. Abhishek developed and exposed APIs to allow games to report additional events, developed a new version of the report type, and designed and wrote a tightly coupled C++ to JSON serializer. Abhishek has a Master of Technology degree in Computer Science from the University of Hyderabad and a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology from Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College. He also attended Holy Cross School from 1996 to 2007. Abhishek's tech stack includes Software Engineering, AI, Backend, Android, and iOS. He is a highly motivated individual who is passionate about his work and is always looking for new challenges.