# Abhishek Pawar

> Nutanix | UMass | Samsung | VJTI

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abhishekpawar

Software Engineer.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer 4 (MTS 4) @ Nutanix
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer 3 (MTS 3) @ Nutanix
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Team : Disaster Recovery & Backup R&D

### Software Engineer Intern @ Nutanix
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Team : Disaster Recovery & Backup R&D

- Increased VM Snapshot Retention time (Recovery Point Objective) from 75 mins to 120 mins thus enabling 60% higher disaster recovery RPO schedules.

- Implementation included Dynamic SSD space allocation, gRPC calls, Remote Replication, Garbage Collection & various other Distributed System scenarios.

- Tech Stack : C++, gRPC, Protocol Buffers, Microservices, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS), Virtualization, Hybrid Cloud.

- Won a 5 day Hackathon by logically revamping a 9 year old microservices dashboard & eliminating 70% stats redundancy thereby enhancing debuggability.

### Software Engineer 2 @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Team : Smartphone Camera Systems R&D

- Developed & Commercialized smartphone camera feature modes like Photo, Video, Portrait, HDR, Night, Macro, Pro, Slow-Motion, etc for the Flagship Galaxy S/Note/Tab series, Foldable Z-Fold & Z-Flip as well as A & M series phones based on Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.

- Tech Stack : C, C++, Java, Linux, Android, Shell scripting, Git/Perforce, Jira, Systrace, Address Sanitizer, SourceInsight, Samsung Proprietary tools.

- Responsibilities : Core algorithmic feature implementation in C/C++ at the Android Camera Systems (HAL) layer, Sensor Bring-Up using firmware kernel driver programming, Power-Memory-Performance KPI optimization, codebase migration/upgrades, Systrace profiling, JUnit testing & Commercialization.

- Engaged in 20+ Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) projects following Agile/Scrum methodology. Regular cross-functional collaboration with Image Quality, Applications, Framework, Hardware, Solutions & QA teams across global locations like South Korea, Europe, China, Vietnam & San Diego.

- Entrusted with Ownership of implementing 32 & 48 MP “High-Res” image capture for 1st on a Samsung Smartphone. Collaborated with Qualcomm & optimized capture time by 34% (Received Samsung Citizen Award). Commercialized on Galaxy M40, A60, A70 & A80 smartphones clocking a global sale of 12 Million+ units.

- Received an opportunity to travel to Samsung Headquarters in South Korea for 3 months to work on ‘Optical Image Stabilization (OIS)’ & ‘Digital Negative Capture (DNG)’ for the Flagship Z-Flip model. Enhanced CPU runtime by 26% using Android’s native capabilities, buffer handling, resource sharing, kernel driver programming & calibration.

- Statistics : 250+ codebase commits, 200+ unique production issues resolution, Average Resolution Time < 4 days, Resolution Rejection Ratio < 3%.

### Software Engineer 1 @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

### Software Engineer Intern @ Samsung Electronics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
Team : Network Communications Software R&D

- Implemented a Single Sign-On (SSO) Centralized Authentication Service (CAS) using Java Servlets (Apache Tomcat), WebSockets & Digital Certificates.

- Analyzed & Visualized real time network logs & Whatsapp chat logs (fun trial) using ElasticSearch, Logstash & Kibana (Elastic Stack - ELK).

- Visualized real time network data into Box plots, Grids, Bubble charts, Heatmaps & Sparklines using React Js, D3 Js & Ignite UI libraries.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science
Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)

### Patkar Varde College

### Yashodham High School & Junior College


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhishekpawar2

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Last updated: 2026-03-31