About

Gowtham Nayak is a versatile Software Development Engineer with over 5 years of experience in AI/Big Data. He has a cross-functional role that involves Software Development, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Cloud Operations. His fields of interest include Algorithms, Data Structures, NLP, Recommender Systems, and Complex Networks. Gowtham is a Google certified TensorFlow Developer, Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK), and is currently pursuing his Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark certification. He is also an AWS Solutions Architect Associate. Gowtham is proficient in several programming languages, including Python, R, Java, and C++. He is familiar with Scala, JavaScript, RUST, and Go. His Data Science Stack includes Keras, Pytorch, Spark.mllib, MXNet, Horovod, fastai, Scikit-learn, Sagemaker, Gensim, Spacy, Selenium, NLTK, PCL, openCV, TFX, MlFlow. His Data Engineering Stack includes Spark, Flink, Kafka, Zookeeper, Nifi, Talend, and Kylo. Gowtham is also experienced in using Docker, Kubernetes, Tornado, Flask, Django, Falcon, Spring, Gunicorn, Nginx, Postman, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, AWS, GCP, Trello, Asana, Slack, Jira, Git, Mercurial, and OpenAPI-Swagger. Currently, Gowtham works as a Software Engineer (Data Platform) at Demyst, where he works on problems intersecting with Big Data, Machine Learning, and Finance. His tech stack includes Athena, EC2, Lambda, Redshift, Spark, ELK, Jenkins, Airflow, Python, Scala, and Java. Gowtham has also worked as a Data Scientist CO-OP at Boehringer Ingelheim, where he worked on Complex Networks, Entity Recognition, Question Answering, and BI internal Chatbot. He has also worked as a Research Assistant at Northeastern University, where he worked on Virtual Reality Labs, Object Detection & Tracking, Anomaly Detection, User Activity Recognition, and Video Summarization. He has used OpenCV, Python, C#, C++, Django/Flask, and Docker in his work. Gowtham holds a Master's degree in AI & Big Data from Northeastern University, a Master of Technology in Computer