About

Aditya Desai is a highly skilled and motivated Software Engineer with a passion for developing quality software. With almost 8 years of experience in the field of computer science and software engineering, Aditya has developed a strong foundation in Distributed Computing, Applied Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Cloud, Big Data, and Data Sciences. Aditya is a quick and continuous learner, and a good team player, who is always interested in learning new technological stacks and experimenting with them. He is also an Android app developer and a happy freelancer in his free time. Aditya's recent projects in the Open Source Community (Apache Tika) were carried out under the guidance of Dr. Chris Mattmann, Principal Data Scientist, JPL NASA in the Big Data domain. Currently, Aditya is working as a Software Engineer 3 at PayPal, where he is responsible for developing quality software. Before joining PayPal, Aditya worked at Akamai and eBay, where he developed core platform components and in-house frameworks using Java, Node.js that powered nearly 40% of static content on ebay.com. He also built RESTful scalable and reliable APIs for cloud partners and developed monitoring and alerting systems for SRE teams using New Relic APIs for enterprise platform products, resulting in high availability. Aditya has a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from BVB College of Engineering and Technology, Hubli. He also has a strong educational background in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Statistics from Karnataka Science College, Dharwad, and completed his Secondary School Leaving Certificate from Pavan English Medium High School, Dharwad. Aditya's technical skills include Software Engineering, Big Data, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Data Science, Research Science, Android, New Relic, SRE, and Javascript. He is a highly motivated and skilled professional who is always eager to learn and develop quality software.