# Anuj Gandhi

> Senior Software Engineer, Big Data at Zillow

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/anuj

With over 6 years of experience, I'm a Big Data Software Engineer adept at transforming complex data into actionable insights. Skilled in Hadoop, Spark, Airflow, and more, I excel in designing scalable solutions that drive business growth. Let's connect to explore how I can contribute to your team's success.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer Big Data @ Zillow
Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
• Built a robust data pipeline to create a high quality dataset, facilitating seamless integration between two business lines at Zillow. Enabled data science partners to drive an estimated $30 million revenue enhancement.
• Developed a Python cookiecutter for self-serving Airflow DAG generation. Increased developers efficiency and facilitated the construction of over 20 DAGs for the team.
• Collaborated with principal architects to architect an enterprise dimension model, establishing best practices for its implementation.
• Built comprehensive dimension models to seamlessly onboard critical L1 metrics through a semantic layer

### Software Engineer II Big Data @ Zillow
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | United States
• Created a self-service tool facilitating seamless onboarding of raw JSON data into Parquet-based Hive tables. Widely adopted by numerous customers for efficient data lake integration
• Developed a scalable, standardized Scala-based pipeline structure for the team, segregating business logic from input/output. Reduced dev time, enhanced MR review, and eased unit test integration
• Built high quality data pipelines to create business critical data products by working with data science partners and cross functional teams

### Senior Big Data Engineer @ Emailage
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Phoenix Area
• Designed, built and maintained scalable, serverless, near real-time data warehouse; Ingested ~5M transactions daily; Reduced analytical query execution time by 10x
• Collaborated with security and compliance team to make the data secure and GDPR compliant 
• Implemented lambda architecture for real-time dashboard to monitor ML model and model features
• Created Spark applications which reduced time of daily SQL queries from 3 hours to under an hour
• Deployed neo4j and implemented Pregel Algorithm to leverage Graph analysis for fraud prevention

### Big Data Developer @ Emailage
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Phoenix, Arizona Area
• Dockerized Shiny app dashboard and deployed on K8s cluster to enable CI/CD pipeline
• Implemented interactive web app to generate high/low-risk rules to streamline Decision Scientists workload
• Built an ETL pipeline to load the data in PostgreSQL data warehouse for data analysis

### Research Assistant @ Arizona State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | Tempe, Arizona
UN Project:
• Scraped dark web, social media data anonymously and maintained ETL pipeline for its sentimental analysis
• Migrated Apache Solr to Elasticsearch – Designed distributed multi-node cluster to improve reliability, availability, and performance; indexed over half billion data records in Elasticsearch for fast retrieval
• Developed and deployed six rich interactive visualization dashboards to find actionable insights
• Integrated React.js into all the dashboard websites to ensure high quality and reusability of code
• Maintained ETL pipeline on the stream of Tweets

Lockheed Martin Project:
• Worked on analytical NLP project for real-time discovery of issues, their frames, and evolutionary topic tracking
• Wrote batch script to automate project pipeline; incorporated hashing to reduce time complexity of string matching
• Created visualization website to explore the content of large set of news articles to leverage quick reading

### Team Lead @ Rolocule
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Pune Area, India
• Led development of “Mahayudh”; a mobile fighting game from conception to prototype stage
• Worked closely with project manager, developers, artists to produce accurate delivery estimates
• Improved code reliability and performance by integrating IoC/Binding MVC framework 
• Designed game architecture
• Implemented initial prototype, foundational modules, gameplay

### Software Developer @ Rolocule
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Pune Area, India
• Worked closely with design team to build and maintain complete UI of ‘Dead Among Us’; a mobile FPS game 
• Profiled CPU, GPU and memory usage and improved game performance by 25%
• Received outstanding performer for two consecutive years at Rolocule Games


## Education
### Master of Science (MSc) in Computer Science
Arizona State University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Engineering
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/anuj-g
- Website: https://anuj-g.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22