# 👨🏽‍💻 Anirudh K.

> Senior data engineer @ Hinge | real-time ml infrastructure

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anirudhk

Senior data platform engineer who builds infrastructure that actually works. Spent the last few years optimizing pipelines, migrating warehouses, and convincing ml models to behave in production. Particularly good at making real-time systems that don’t collapse under load and explaining why vendor lock-in is a trap.

## Work Experience
### Senior Engineer @ Hinge
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | New York
Data, platform, ai.
 - Migrating legacy redshift warehouse to databricks, consolidating pipelines, cutting costs, unlocking ml workloads.
 - Giving ai engs the dopamine hit of "fresh" model features instead of "whenever batch god wills it".

### Software Engineer @ Ramp
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York
Data platform.
 - Enabled growth engs to launch personalized flows; cut event latency 95%+ so ops could react while users were still awake.
 - Ported 100+ key dbt models to new cloud-native ELT, slashed incident downtime from 7d to 8h; established multi-vendor patterns (bc vendor lock-in sucks).

### Lead Data Engineer @ Standard AI
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco
Data science & analytics.
 - First data engineering hire; stood up full-stack data infra (spark, delta lake, airflow, looker); putting infra on actual rails; feedback loop in hours not days.
 - Reduced deploy time 95%, dropped incident count, wrote rfcs, ran 1:1s, did perf reviews, technical leadership.

### Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Cupertino, CA
Health data platform.
 - Implemented real-time flink on kinesis ingestion, 50x latency improvement.
 - Orchestrated ml deploy + inference (docker, lambda, 200 req/s); cold starts be damned, the models shipped.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cambridge, MA
Cloud network infrastructure.
 - Implemented rollout prioritization for config updates on backbone (b2) routers, keeping the internet stable even when engineering wanted to move fast with global changes.

### Research Assistant @ D'Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Boston
Northeastern DATA Initiative; Prof. Yakov Bart.
 - Built insights platform for collecting and analyzing social ad pricing data, letting researchers see what the algorithms were actually charging.

### Software Engineer Intern, Forward Deployed @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York/Houston
Syntropy team (Foundry); MD Anderson Cancer Center.
 - Developed a full-stack React/Java Spring web application to visualize dataset lineage.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Chicago
Web server/application serving platform.
 - Improved internal dev tools powering search-result-page plugin development, boosting productivity for engs shaping what billions click every day.

### Software Engineer Intern @ HubSpot
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cambridge, MA
Email protection.
 - Devised and implemented an email routing system that helped maintain email sending ip health, learning about deliverability and ops from the chaos up close.

### Teaching Assistant @ Khoury College of Computer Sciences
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Boston
- CS4800: Gave 1:1 support and graded in algorithms/data (witnessed peak creative cheating).
- CS2510: Ran labs, office hours, exam grading for intro oop/java; helped students debug, survive exams, and occasionally actually learn something.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA
Search ranking and experimentation infrastructure.
 - Built a react/php web tool for triggering ranking pipelines and training jobs; got first-hand exposure to how search features actually get tested.

### Research Assistant @ Northeastern University College of Science
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Boston
Northeastern Antimicrobial Discovery Center; Dr. Kim Lewis.
 - Engaged in research identifying novel persistor genes in E. coli, more pipetting and plate counting than real discoveries.

### Research Assistant @ UMass Chan Medical School
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Worcester, MA
UMass Programs in Systems Biology; Dr. Marian Walhout.
 - Assisted research analyzing metabolic pathways for homeostatis; picked up pcr, pipetting, and how fast a worm plate can get out of hand.

### Entrepreneur/Student @ TYE Boston - TiE Young Entrepreneurs
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, MA
TiE Boston's Young Entrepreneurs Academy.
 - Co-founded and launched AlertMe, an iot school bus tracker that won $2k at the boston pitch comp; put 40+ bus routes (across 8 districts) online.

### Research Assistant @ UMass Amherst Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Dept
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Amherst, MA
UMass biochemistry & molecular biology; Dr. Dan Chase.
 - Supported research studying dopamine and other neurotransmitter molecular signal pathways; mostly learned how many times you can mess up pcr before the grad students take pity on you.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science and Mathematics
Northeastern University

### High School Diploma
AMSA Charter School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-07