# Abhishek Bollapragada > Senior Software Engineer at Rippling Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/abhishekbollapragada ## Work Experience ### Global Payroll - Senior Software Engineer @ Rippling Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Global Payroll - Software Engineer @ Rippling Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer @ Farcast, Inc Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States ### Project Leader @ Valley Consulting Group Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California Project leader at a UC Berkeley based management firm working exclusively with industry-leading technology companies in the Silicon Valley. Valley Consulting Group (VCG) provides strategic solutions to vital business challenges faced by its clients. VCG is composed of UC Berkeley's brightest undergraduates, receiving nearly 1,000 applications each year at acceptance rate of just 1% of UC Berkeley students, making VCG one of the most competitive student-run organizations on campus. Past clients include Google, Microsoft, Airbnb, Salesforce, Dropbox, LinkedIn, and more. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Cisco Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, CA • Developed CLI tools using Python Click API to communicate with REST endpoints to trigger disaster recovery services for failover in DNAC 3-Node clusters • Utilized Docker and Kubernetes to scale services and deploy tools on DNAC clusters while ensuring high availability (IBM Certified in Docker & Kubernetes Essentials) • Collaborated with back-end engineers to design the DNAC notification processing system and developed proof of concept in Java ### Strategy Consultant @ PayPal Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Worked with customer service analytics team to deliver data-driven competitive research and develop KPIs on the performance of customer service tools, specifically AI-powered chatbots • Provided technology stack recommendations for an omni-channel customer service model to augment customer experience • Used web scraping and data analytics to measure customer satisfaction in reviews/ratings using sentiment analysis ### Data Analyst (Consultant) @ eBay Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed a framework to analyze the health of Ebay’s SEO compared to its competitors within Google Search • Analyzed over a million records of product queries using Pandas, Numpy, and Scipy libraries to produce scores for both Ebay’s performance on product queries and their competitors ### Software Engineering Intern @ Sprinklr Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru Area, India • Responsible for building a web scraper that collected data on 4000 P&G products from Amazon and Walmart databases, specifically the customer reviews of the products. • Wrote the script in Python mainly using the Selenium API along with additional web-scraping libraries such as BeautifulSoup and Requests. ### Academic Intern, CS61A @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Berkeley, California • Assist students in both lab sections and office hours by giving guidance on homework problems, lab assignments, and coding projects. • The course is taught in python and includes topics such as recursion, trees, and interpreters & compilers. ### Impact Assessment Research Intern @ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area • Worked with Duke Professor, Dr. Dave McAdams on his technology diffusion research into the adoption rate of chemical probes in the scientific community. • Developed a Java application for the impact assesment team to extract relevant data from PubMed documents (MEDLINE, text, and CSV files) • Used data to create citation networks of authors who have written papers on specific chemical probes. • Utilized VOS Viewer software to create citation networks and mainly Java's inbuilt regular expressions library to parse through data. ### Research Intern at Vivo Microscopy Lab @ Duke University Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area • Worked on brain segmentation project with Dr. Alexandra Badea to analyze mice brain images taken by CT and MRI scanners with a specialized software called Avizo • Developed a grey matter cell simulation with Matlab, using a 3D bubble-plot to approximate and analyze intracellular and extracellular space to assist in research ## Education ### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science, Data Science University of California, Berkeley ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhishek-bollap --- Source: https://flows.cv/abhishekbollapragada JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/abhishekbollapragada/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29