# Abhilasha G. > SDE 2 at Microsoft Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/abhilasha Highly motivated, dynamic and challenge driven software developer, with 5 years of work experience, passionate about learning new technologies to design and develop user-friendly products and achieve business goals. Pursued Master of Science in Computer Science at State University of New York,Buffalo with a primary focus in software and systems and capstone project focussed in Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing. Previously worked as a Software Developer at Bloomberg, where I am part of the team which works on developing and maintaining scalable and complex products, services and infrastructure related to Video Streaming and multimedia management. Proficient in Web technology stack and building backend Java applications. Quick in learning and adapting to new technologies. Technical skills: • Programming Languages and frameworks: Java, JavaScript, NodeJs, NextJs, ReactJs • Web and Video Technologies/Libraries: Nginx, CDN management(Fastly/Akamai), HLS streaming, Ads integration, Live/Video on-demand stream monitoring(Touchstream/Youbora), GTM, Basic SEO, HTML, CSS • Backend, Databases and Dev-Ops: Message Queuing(ActiveMQ), Docker, New Relic, Splunk MySQL, SQL server management studio, MS Access Extra-curriculars: Mentoring new hires, part of Onboarding Committee, Women in Tech, Recruitment and Open source Project development group at Bloomberg Media. You can contact me on: 📧 abhilashagadekar86@gmail.com ## Work Experience ### Software Development Engineer 2 @ Microsoft Jan 2022 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Bloomberg LP Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Greater New York City Area Part of the team responsible for development and maintenance of products, services and infrastructure related to multimedia assets and video streaming on bloomberg.com and other customer facing web applications. • Daily engineering tasks involve use of varied JavaScript frameworks and libraries (Next.js, React.js etc.), CDN management, Java Spring boot framework. Additionally, also responsible for running agile based team meetings including Sprint Planning, Retro and daily standups. • Lead development of ActiveMQ consumer application (Spring Boot/JDK11) for an AWS based message queuing system. • Worked on various parts of web stack including Nginx, HLS streaming, Ads integration, live/video on-demand stream monitoring, GTM, SEO etc. • Involved in enhancing and partly automating On-boarding process for new hires in Bloomberg Consumer media department. Also, contributes to mentoring new hires on the team, running tech talk sessions within department and recruitment efforts. • Lead development of a fault-tolerant, scalable typescript-based middleware, deployed on AWS, responsible for serving all images and videos on bloomberg.com. • Organized and was part of panel discussion for university students in collaboration with Bloomberg Women in Tech Committee. ### IT Graduate Assistant @ University at Buffalo Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Buffalo/Niagara, New York Area Worked as an IT Graduate Assistant at the office of International Education in SUNY, Buffalo. Responsibilities: 1.Developed different modules for the International Admission and Study Abroad application. 2.Worked on integration of various database modules into one single application and automation of immigration application process to reduce human efforts. 3.Maintained International Admission website using SQL,MS Access,VBA,HTML,CSS,Javascript. ### Full Stack Engineer Intern (Natural Language Processing) @ The New School Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area Worked as a Full Stack Software Developer Summer Intern. ●Researched and successfully deployed first prototype of an Email Response Suggestor System, which auto suggests 3 responses to duplicate email queries received by university’s IT Help Desk leading to reduction in employee efforts by 30%. ●Implemented Google’s BERT Embedding model and improved F-1 score by fine tuning the model on Quora and New School’s historic dataset. Additionally, experimented with various machine learning algorithms to enhance the results of clustering. ●Preprocessed training data using python libraries (MBox, Numpy, Scikit-learn, NLTK). Also, utilized Gmail API and Google Cloud Platform for data mining task and developed a Chrome extension in JavaScript to attach responses to the emails. ### Software Developer @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Mumbai Area, India ● Worked as a Java Developer in Financial Services Domain. ● Used MVC based STRUTS framework, Hibernate for Web tier development using Eclipse IDE. ● Experience in writing complex sub queries, SQL, stored procedures, functions and triggers ● Automated one of the testing processes in IFRS system which required testers to depend on developers ● Also responsible for Unit and Integration testing ● Was awarded ‘TCS On the Spot’ award for successfully building a prototype in limited time for Client Presales demonstration. Technologies using: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Java, SQL, GIT ### Technical Intern @ Styledge Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai Area, India Had a great opportunity to intern in an e-commerce startup and enhance my skills. ● Worked on the setup of various Ecommerce Stores. ● Automated the ecommerce site installation process. ● Developed a Logistic Web Application (PHP based). ● Contributed at various levels in integral company functions requiring proficient Business and Communication Skills. Technologies using: HTML5, CSS3, PHP- MySQL ## Education ### Masters in Computer Science University at Buffalo Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Information Technology Fr Conceicao Rodrigues Institute of Technology Sector 9-A Vashi Navi Mumbai 400 703 Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhilashagadekar --- Source: https://flows.cv/abhilasha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/abhilasha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22