About

Ami Parikh is a Senior Software Developer at Wealthfront with over 8 years of relevant experience in software engineering, web development, data science, and search. She completed her Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Surat, and pursued a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Southern California. Ami's current role at Wealthfront involves developing software for the company's investment management platform. Prior to joining Wealthfront, she worked at BlackRock for four years, where she served as the dev lead for the APIs platform team that powers all of BlackRock’s public and internally available web tools like Advisor Center and iRetire. Her work was primarily focused on portfolio construction and analysis, risk analytics, and retirement planning. During her time at BlackRock, Ami contributed to the design and implementation of a subscription framework and used it for collateral management to improve and optimize margin calculations. She also developed product visualization tools for BlackRock's SIO (Strategic Income Opportunities) fund and MAI (Multi Asset Income) fund, and implemented scientific active equity signals used by researchers and portfolio managers for trading. Ami's technical expertise includes software engineering, web development, data science, and search. She has experience in building complex systems to calculate and store portfolio analytics, handling over 10,000 requests a week, and developing web APIs for CRUD operations on user data and preferences. In addition, she won the regional finals in the 2018 firm-wide hackathon by building an enhanced Wiki search API using Apache Solr. Overall, Ami is a skilled software developer with a strong background in computer science and extensive experience in building complex systems for wealth management, risk analytics, and retirement planning.