About

Ani Chandrashekhar is a Data Privacy Engineer at Unity Technologies. With a degree in Computer Science and Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ani has a passion for NLP, Computational Morphology, and Machine Translation. Ani has over 4.87 years of relevant experience in the field of software engineering. Ani has previously worked as a Software Engineer Cons II at Arity, where they developed distributed computing software using Kafka and Flink, wrote performant code using Apache Spark on HDFS to perform large operations on Dataframes and Cassandra Databases, and created APIs and batch services in Go, Scala, and Python to retrieve large datasets to/from Cassandra, Hadoop, AWS S3, and PostGres. Ani also wrote pipelines and implemented security protocols for all applications. Ani has also worked as an NLP/Data Science Contractor at AbbVie, where they built a database conversion pipeline in Python that normalized millions of pharmaceutical records automatically, used dynamic programming and hashing to reduce average runtime from ~36 minutes to >40 seconds per record, optimized the algorithm to consider both accuracy and latency with large amounts of reads and writes, and developed a Node.js/Express.js app that used Websockets to serve sensitive clinical data to internal clients. Ani's tech stack includes Cassandra, NLP, AWS, Spark, HDFS, Hadoop, Backend, Software Engineer, Scala, Kafka, Postgres, Python, and Spring Boot. Ani's expertise in these technologies has helped them excel in their current role as a Data Privacy Engineer at Unity Technologies.