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Adityan S is a Senior Software Engineer at Udemy with a Master's degree in Computer Science - Machine Learning from Georgia Tech. He has a strong background in big data and machine learning, with experience in building machine learning solutions at scale serving millions of users and deriving business value out of data. Adityan is a data and product-driven software engineer with a strong design thinking approach to drive business outcomes. Adityan's expertise lies in building and maintaining highly scalable distributed data and machine learning pipelines using AWS, Scala, Spark, Apache Hive, Airflow, and EMR. He has experience in building scalable web services in Ruby, Python, Scala, and Google Playframework. Adityan has also worked on recommender systems and building and deploying machine learning models to production. He is skilled in data analysis, A/B testing, inference, and data-driven applications. Prior to joining Udemy, Adityan worked as a Senior Software Engineer - Machine Learning at Poshmark, where he added search click signals to the recommendation model and pipeline, delivering significant business impact. He also extended the recommendation pipeline by adding item similarities based recommendations for richer and diverse content to engage more users. Adityan was also responsible for participating in technical design discussions and code ownership of data and ML pipelines, and a web service to serve recommendations. Adityan has also worked as a Software Engineer 2 - Data Engineering at Poshmark, where he delivered a machine learning pipeline to serve recommendations to 5 million buyers on the platform. He mentored 2 summer interns to build a web service in Scala Play framework, which was used for internal beta testing before launching recommendations on the platform. Adityan also delivered a service that provides financial data to implement ASC606, a financial model small companies implement to transition into larger companies. He used Airflow for orchestration, Looker to pull data from tables built in Amazon Redshift from Apache Spark. Adityan's education includes a Master's degree in Computer Science - Machine Learning from Georgia Tech and a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University at Buffalo. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Adityan's technical skills include Software Engineering, ML, AWS, Scala, Web, Spark, Apache Airflow, Big Data, Research Scientist, Apache Hive, Search, Data Engineering, Python, and Ruby. With 3.79 years of