# Abhishek Chatterjee

> Senior SDE, Big Data @ Zillow Group

Location: Annandale, Virginia, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abhishekchatterjee

Full stack software engineer with 4+ years of industry experience. I am in my last semester at Carnegie Mellon University where my team is building the first ever personal finance app.

I greatly enjoy building software solutions by creating architectures, writing and maintaining clean code, and improving software processes driven by data. I have experience working on distributed systems, databases, frontend technologies, and deployment strategies and technologies.

I have been involved in the company hiring drives conducting over 100+ technical interviews for teams and org-wide. Currently, I am a teaching assistant for Formal Methods coursework at Carnegie Mellon University taught by Dr. David Garlan and Dr. Eunsuk Kang.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Development Engineer, Big Data @ Zillow
Jan 2023 – Present | Alexandria, Virginia, United States
- Technical lead for Zillow Privacy platform to comply with privacy laws such as CCPA by designing services and processes interfacing with Zillow’s legal team and technical teams in Zillow storing user PI and PII data
- Designed and implemented streaming data pipelines on CDC change events of Apache Iceberg tables and reflect on internal catalog platform
- Worked on observability layer for all datasets in Zillow's datalake comprising of 70k tables including table metadata, lineage and history

### Teaching Assistant - Formal Methods @ CMU | Master of Software Engineering
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022
Serving as teaching assistant for Formal Methods course (17614) taught by Dr. David Garlan and Dr. Eunsuk Kang, comprising of 85 students. Responsible for clarifying student queries, grading homework and exam submissions, and conducting recitations.

Topics: Topic: TLA+, Set theory, Temporal logic, State Machine

### Research Assistant - Formal Methods @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Worked on converting LTSP formal modeling framework, to VS Code extension - to be used at Carnegie Mellon University's Formal Methods coursework in Fall 22. This involved documenting compiler components, updating the compiler code and behavior, exposing compiler commands in CLI, and planning for extension releases.

Topics - FSP, LTSP Modeling, modeling consensus protocols like Paxos

### Software Engineer @ Postman
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Designed and implemented HTTPS Proxy and Capturing HTTPS Traffic for Postman desktop in Node.js, React, OpenSSL, and IPC libraries which resulted in 12% increase in user activity (16 Mil user base)
- Made performance optimizations of REST API endpoints by 95% by resolving MySQL DB bottlenecks and service dependencies led to 10% increased footfall on Postman Integrations home page
- Automated build and deployment release workflows using shell scripting saving every developer 3hr per week

### Software Engineering Specialist @ GE Healthcare
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Bengaluru Area, India
Worked on a clinical software system that enables doctors and clinicians to view live fetal waveforms and act in a data-driven manner. Experience in the entire project lifecycle working on distributed systems with streaming applications of 1.2 Mil data points per minute (windowing, and batching), using various replicated data stores - Key-value (Redis), NoSQL (SyllaDB), Relational (MySQL). Experience in building and standardizing build pipelines for all teams in the org.

- Developed end-to-end streaming application to view past and live fetal waveform data using Angular, Spring Boot, web sockets, Kafka, and Redis
- Improved microservice deployment time in Kubernetes by 60% by revamping build and deployment plans
- Designed modular and configurable UI libraries in Angular with theme and i18n leveraged across GE globally
- Built distributed load generation framework for running reliability and load tests on service components

### Software Engineer @ CGI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Bangalore

### Associate Software Engineer @ CGI
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Spearheaded architecture design for EIVA(Enterprise Intelligent Virtual Assistant) from the ground up
- Created and implemented end-to-end virtual assistant featuring voice-enabled chatbots using a micro service based architecture and deployment architecture on Docker Swarm
- Executed intent classification with open-source NLU library (RASA) and increased the accuracy of the same by 4% upon improvising existing open source deep learning models
- Constructed analytics tool using LDA to aid visualization of uploaded content to be bucketed into different topics by converting Mallet’s (Java ML library) CLI commands to REST API

### Software Developer Intern @ Sabre Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bengaluru Area, India


## Education
### Master's degree in Software Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhishek0395

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Last updated: 2026-03-22