# Aayush Kumar

> Software Engineer at Valon

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aayushkumar

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Software engineer who is passionate about building thoughtful, intuitive and impactful products.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Valon
Jan 2021 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ GRAIL, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ GRAIL, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Optimized UX of Listing Product Detail Page (PDP) to increase bookings on Airbnb via feature-driven A/B Testing & maintenance
- Increased bookings by 1.3% globally by surfacing dynamic messages tailored to user-inputed trip details & improved the ranking mechanism of such messages to support nontrivial product specs
- Served as POC for PDP Team's Covid-19 Response, coordinating technical efforts across 3 teams to address evolving product specs
- Refactored/redesigned various reusable PDP components, such as a module for booking mechanisms & a cross-browser compatible carousel component, to be more performant, maintainable, & robust

### E-textile Hacking @ Contextual Computing Group
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area
Repurposing, Expanding, and Exposing a Public API for the Levi’s and Google Jacquard Collaboration
- building a developer friendly iOS toolkit for easily interfacing with the Jacquard technology
- introducing new gestures that leverage the ability to discern variable applied pressure as a second dimension for user input

### Software Engineering Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Alexa Entity Resolution Search And Rank Team
- Building automated management of data source configurations

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington
Messenger Assistant Team
- Deployed e2e Neural Natural Language Generation pipeline into the assistant stack using context-aware decoder LSTMs
- Developed data collection scripts with heuristic-based automated annotations along with establishing guidelines & best practices for remote human-annotation teams

### Software Engineering Intern on Tripod Project @ Yahoo! Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed the Map View and Image Lightbox View of Tripod's demo interface, Viewer, to help visualize EXIF geodata/metadata alongside an internally reusable React Component Library
- Trained a classifier for detecting search queries' relevance to a user's images within Tripod in order to prevent unnecessary search queries from being run
- Improved image search parsing metrics and analyzing weaknesses in query processing algorithm

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Vertically Integrated Projects Program: Intelligent Transportation Systems
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Atlanta, GA
Assisting in faculty research dedicated to improving campus transportation systems and developing a forecasting, computation, and communication system to optimize bus circulation under the supervision of Professors John Bartholdi (ISyE) and Russ Clark (CS). Current goals involve implementing new functionality into the Android Tablets used on Georgia Tech Buses. Personal Projects include enabling tablets to automatically announce the names of upcoming bus stops or broadcast any additional news such as route changes or cancellations.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aayush-k
- Website: https://aayush-k.tech
- GitHub: https://github.com/aayush-k

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Last updated: 2026-03-22