Gursharan Ahir

Gursharan Ahir

Gursharan Ahir

Software Engineer @ Google | UC San Diego | IIT Kharagpur

Hey! I am a Software Engineer at Google Cloud, and currently working on myriad of things including Recommendation Systems Infra, Control plane and Data plane APIs, and so on for AlloyDB :) I completed my Masters in Computer Science from UC San Diego with focus on Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.

2024 — NowGoogleSoftware Engineer III

2024 — Now

Sunnyvale, CA

AlloyDB Platform Infra Team

Projects I worked on:

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Added API support in Control Plane for AlloyDB for super fast restore from CloudSQL (Link attached)

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GA for AlloyDB Recommenders (Link Attached)

2023 — 2024GoogleSoftware Engineer II

2023 — 2024

Sunnyvale, CA

AlloyDB Platform Infra Team

Projects I worked on:

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Built End to End Recommendation Systems Infra for AlloyDB (Links attached)

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Enhanced Query Insights integration with AlloyDB Control Plane and Data Plane (Link attached)

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Built Client facing library for using Experiments Infra in AlloyDB Data Plane (Internal)

2022 — 2022GoogleSoftware Engineering Intern

2022 — 2022

Sunnyvale, CA

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Prototyping Recommendation Systems for AlloyDB

2021 — 2022UC San DiegoStudent Programmer | Jun Lab

2021 — 2022

San Diego, California, United States

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Development of napari plugin of Jun lab’s deep-learning based image analysis software

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Project funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) under the Napari Plugin Accelerator Grants 2022

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Led to a publication in eLife journal: https://elifesciences.org/articles/88463

2020 — 2021MicrosoftSoftware Engineer

2020 — 2021

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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Developed the next generation of embedded software for the micro-controller integrated in Microsoft Surface products

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Participated in Hackathon 2020 and Summer FHL 2021

Education

2021 — 2022

UC San Diego

Master of Science - MS

2021 — 2022

2016 — 2020

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor of Technology - BTech

2016 — 2020