About

Achyut Kulkarni is a Senior Software Engineer at eBay with over 7 years of relevant experience in the field. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Achyut is currently building a smarter AI-driven product management software from the ground up, where he is responsible for building backend and AI capabilities to the software. He has previously worked on the development of services, infrastructure of core shopping cart of eBay across all countries and domains. One of Achyut's notable accomplishments is building Purchase Intent Predictor, a Tensorflow-based scalable ML infrastructure for eBay's checkout platform. Purchase Intent Predictor is a complete end-to-end framework from data creation to model building using RNN's and other deep learning techniques to inference engine which serves over one million in traffic every single day. It is currently active in Germany and Australia and plans to take it to the US in 2020. He has also worked on Purchase Service, a core checkout service that involves inventory management, order creation, and purchase operations. Achyut's tech stack includes Java, Jersey REST clients for implementation of services, machine learning for the improvement of checkout experience, and web development technologies and frameworks. He has also worked on mobile application development and has experience in UI/UX development using ReactJS, Node.js, MongoDB, and ExpressJS. Achyut's passion for machine learning and AI has opened up new doors in his career options, largely increasing his knowledge about data, statistics, search engines, and natural language processing in speech and text-related queries. Before joining eBay, Achyut worked as a Software Development Engineer at Oracle Systems for close to two years. He has also worked as a UI/UX Intern at Faraday Future, where he worked on building real-world applications using ReactJS, Node.js, MongoDB, and ExpressJS. Currently, he is re-imagining and rebuilding the order management systems at eBay by building scalable services and re-architecting and rebuilding an entirely new data pipeline to inject data from in-house datastore. Achyut is a skilled professional with expertise in software engineering, machine learning, AI, web development, infrastructure, NLP, and information retrieval. He is a product manager with experience in building scalable ML infrastructure using RNN's, deep learning techniques, and Tensorflow. Achyut's passion for technology and his ability to solve complex problems make him a valuable asset to any organization.