About

Jerome Paliakkara is a Software Engineer with 2.70 years of relevant experience. He is currently working as an SWE Intern at Pinterest, where he has performed a data migration from Hbase to Druid, improving OLAP performance, and providing cost savings of ~$25k/year. He has also helped improve the conversion match rate for the Pinterest Tag by up to 20% by adding several features to the Google Tag Manager integration. Jerome has updated the Pinterest Tag Helper Chrome extension, fulfilling several requirements and improving user experience. He has also automated the publishing of Chrome extensions to the Chrome Web Store, saving developer time. Jerome has improved ease and quality of data documentation at Pinterest by developing a tool to help automate documentation of several internal data tables. Prior to his current role, Jerome worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Washington, where he assumed responsibilities of teaching assistant for CSE 312 (Statistics & Probability) and CSE 344 (Data Management). He taught sections of ~30 students, graded homework, and held office hours. Jerome also developed course material and grading scripts for the courses. He has also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Docugami Inc, where he optimized the internal developer productivity tool and added a command to automate a tedious developer procedure, speeding up the entire process by 15× and saving several hours of developer time. He substantially reduced UI response time (from a few seconds to nearly imperceptible) by modifying response logic. Jerome collaborated with the design team and implemented several fundamental UX features and stateful UI components for the core web application. He designed and implemented the UI and API for the search feature (end-to-end). Jerome holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Washington, where he studied from 2017 to 2022. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Web, Integration, UI, ReactJS, Javascript, Typescript, Redux, Search, and Frontend. Jerome is also an EIR at Dubhacks Next.