About

Abhishek K. is a Senior Engineer 1 at Aristocrat Technologies in EMEA, with 4.5 years of experience in Backend development. He has worked extensively with C++ and Python and has a strong grasp of Data Structures, Algorithms, and OOPs concepts. Abhishek holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Abhishek has been involved in end-to-end product development, which includes code writing for new components, fixing existing bugs, and interacting with customers to resolve their issues. He has worked on several industry projects during his tenure, which has given him a wealth of experience in software development. Prior to joining Aristocrat, Abhishek worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Persistent Systems, where he was part of the McAfee Agent project, responsible for resolving bugs and maintaining code quality. He also worked on integrating the existing code base for all supported operating systems to have a common build server. Abhishek also worked on the Content Collector for Emails, File System, and SharePoint project, where he determined requirements, designed and developed software APIs using C++ 11 and Python 3. He was also responsible for integrating the product with Office-365 architecture and developing local APIs using Python. Abhishek's Master's thesis at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, focused on the Word Association technique to improve textual search performance. He analyzed the Wikipedia corpus and developed an algorithm to get an association between words on Wikipedia word corpus. He achieved enhanced textual search performance using new approaches based on the concept of word association on word's lexical co-occurrences. Abhishek also achieved enhanced semantic sentence similarity, which was to determine whether the message conveyed by one sentence matches the meaning of another sentence. Abhishek's technical skills include Python, Backend development, Software Engineering, Django, OpenCV, Corpus, Research Scientist, Search, and NLP. With 7.87 years of relevant experience, Abhishek is a seasoned software engineer who is passionate about software development and constantly strives to improve his skills.