About

Adesh Nalpet Adimurthy is an experienced software engineer with a passion for back-end development. He is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Big Data and Software Engineering from Dalhousie University. Adesh is also an author of thenextbigproject.com, where he shares his insights on the latest trends and technologies in the software engineering field. Adesh has over 4 years of relevant experience working with top companies such as PhonePe and ClearTax. At PhonePe, he developed a system for user personalization and platformization, which enabled dynamic screens with server-driven UI and A/B testing. He also developed the Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) feature to schedule automated payments through E-Nach and UPI mandates or set-up reminders for investments, handling over 1.2 lakh transactions per day. Additionally, he rewrote the KYC submission state-machine for user identity verification by parsing proof documents such as Drivers License, Aadhar Card, and Bank Statements, along with a selfie video verification which reduced false negatives from 4% to 0.3%. At ClearTax, Adesh was part of the core team and made impactful contributions such as database administration, database sharding, and migration, cost optimization, data pipelines for better metrics, CI/CD pipelines, online migrations, and ensuring zero downtime. He developed a service for monetizing and limiting user exploitation of the application utilizing Python Django to float the application and Redis for database caching. He also built a wrapper around simple workflows (AWS SWF) with a decision layer for APIs to be synchronous or asynchronous, primarily to run SQL queries in batches for the enterprise users. Adesh is currently working as a Computer Science Tutor at Superprof, where he teaches a range of topics in Computer Science to graduate and undergraduate students, including Data Structures & Algorithms, Software Development, System Design, and Cloud Computing. Classes are online or in-person, preferable at Dalhousie University Killam Library or Golberg Computer Science Block. Adesh holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from Dayananda Sagar University, Bangalore, and is expected to complete his Master's degree in 2023. He is skilled in various technologies such as AWS, Mobile, UI, SQL, CI/CD, Redis, Python, Django, Jenkins, and Infra. With his collaborative design skills, Adesh has proven to be a valuable asset to any team