About

Vishal Seshagiri is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 3 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is currently working at Glassdoor as a Software Engineer, where he has made significant contributions to the development of the company's backend features for infosite pages such as reviews, interviews, and photos. Vishal has also built a Java-based GraphQL application to power infosite FAQ pages, which he made production-facing within a week. In addition, Vishal has migrated legacy batch jobs to an event-driven architecture, improving automoderation logic to reduce man-hours by 20 hours per week. He has also aided in the development of Glassdoor's D&I initiative, accelerating organic content contribution to 1 million per month. Vishal is a problem solver, and he has debugged and fixed application performance issues by optimizing code for garbage collection, ensuring committed SLAs. Vishal's past experience includes working as a Software Engineer Intern at Glassdoor, where he reduced the number of hits on the database by about half and helped brainstorm a POC for a machine learning-backed email system. He also worked as a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of Southern California, where he deployed and tested a DCRNN model on TensorFlow-serving and developed a data pipeline using Kafka consumer to obtain real-time streaming data from sensors across LA. Vishal holds a Master of Science in Applied Data Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Mumbai. His tech stack includes software engineering, backend development, Java, ML, research scientist, Spark, TensorFlow, Kafka, and web development. Vishal is a winner of the Glassdoor Hack 15's Core Strength award for his outstanding work on a project that bested 55 other awesome projects. In summary, Vishal Seshagiri is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for problem-solving and a proven track record of delivering high-quality solutions. He would be an asset to any organization looking for a talented and dedicated software engineer.