# Adarsh Gopalakrishnan

> Software Engineer at DoorDash | AWS | IIT Madras

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/adarshgopalakrishnan

As a software engineer, I am excited to design and build scalable & resilient systems that provide top-notch customer experience and engagement without compromising on security or privacy.

Having graduated from USC creating new applications using computer vision, personalization through recommendation models, machine learning & NLP, I'm eager to learn about new technologies and explore their impact.

Reachable at ps.adarshgo@gmail.com

## Work Experience
### Product Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Notifications team - Responsible for all notifications to drive customer engagement & growth for DoorDash.

### Software Development Engineer II @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Data Science Intern @ The Bouqs Company
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Trained hybrid LightFM recommendation model with user web click and purchase history to improve email click-through by 22.9%
• Performed data wrangling and built a data pipeline using Snowflake SQL and Pandas
• Developed Gradient Boosting Regressor model for forecasting orders and reduced error by 20%
• Optimized hyperparameters using Bayesian Optimization to increase R2 value to 0.99
• Deployed fully automated recommendation model in Docker and Redis integrated with AWS S3

### Survey Data Analyst @ USC Seaver Science Center
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Los Angeles Area
• Generated statistically significant insights from survey responses of computer science students to identify bias in algorithms and search engine results
• Presented overview and insights for two conferences - ALA Midwinter Seattle and code4lib San Jose

### Strategy Analyst @ Kasturi & Sons, Ltd
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Chennai Area, India
• Monitored and reported business and usage metrics of digital subscription product portfolio
• Developed a multiple regression model for print ad campaigns to 20% increase in signups
• Identified trends of subscription renewals with login data to generate potential subscribers
• Executed A/B testing for subscription email campaigns with subject lines for 33% better click-through
• Implemented dashboards from Google Analytics for website performance and content trends

### Risk Analyst Intern @ Nomura
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai Area, India


## Education
### M.S. in Applied Data Science (CS)
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

### Bachelor's degree in Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

### Computer Science
P.S.B.B.S.S.S. K.K.N.


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01