About

Rakesh Guttikonda is a highly skilled Research and Development Software Engineer with over 12 years of relevant experience in the field. He is currently working at Bloomberg LP as an R&D Software Engineer, where he is responsible for developing cutting-edge software solutions for the company. Due to the nature of his work, he cannot disclose the details of his current company. Prior to joining Bloomberg LP, Rakesh worked as a Software Engineer at Arista, where he was responsible for developing important routing features, including BGP, for Arista switches and routers. He also developed SRD features for handling large-scale routing information with efficient data structures. These features were developed to win important clients from big content providers and internet providers. Rakesh worked with distributed systems and shared memory systems while working on the project. Due to the nature of his work, he cannot disclose all the details. Rakesh also worked as a Research Assistant at the Information Retrieval Lab, University of Waterloo, where he worked on an interesting project on Temporal Summarization Systems. The objective of the project was to design an efficient system that collects important updates over time for important natural disaster type events such as hurricanes, earthquakes, bombings, etc. Rakesh's system ranked first in the TREC 2014 TST track, which evaluated all such systems from IR researchers worldwide. He also completed his Master's thesis on the topic at the University of Waterloo. Rakesh holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, where he completed his thesis on Temporal Summarization Systems. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Rakesh's technical skills include software engineering, research science, and web development. He is a highly motivated and dedicated individual who is passionate about developing innovative software solutions.