# Hrishikesh Vaidya

> Software Engineer at Google

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

Languages: Java, Kotlin, C++, Go, Scala, Python
Skills: Algorithms, Machine Learning, Distributed Systems

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Cloud Dataplex

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Google Cloud Business Platform

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Responsible for developing scalable systems for Ads Forecasting and Budget Optimization products to improve campaign creation experience and advertiser budget spending
- Built and maintained large-scale Batch ETL data processing pipelines using Spark and source & sink connectors from/to Cloud Service Provider data lakes (e.g., AWS S3)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cerebras Systems
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Los Altos, California
- Worked on developing C++ library functions for neural network layer operations to facilitate distributed training. 
- Explored the model parallelism aspect of neural network layers required for efficient training and inference.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Columbia University in the City of New York
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Spring 2018: Teaching Assistant for COMS 4112 Database System Implementation instructed by Prof. Kenneth Ross.

Fall 2017: Teaching Assistant for COMS 4111 Introduction to Databases instructed by Prof. Donald Ferguson.

### Research Intern @ Indian Institute of Science
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science (Machine Learning)
Columbia University

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering (Honors)
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29