# Kailas Shekar

> Fullstack Engineer at Hertz

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

## Work Experience
### Full Stack Engineer II @ Hertz
Jan 2024 – Present | Saratoga, California, United States

### Backend Engineer @ Heymarket
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Completely built roles and permissions backend system for our application,
allowing for creation of custom roles with any combination of over 20
permissions.
- New Roles framework reduces time by 90% to add new permissions to our
application
- Creating back-end endpoints and functionality for Customer Support tools

### Software Engineer @ Redfin
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Utilized the conductor workflow (publisher subscriber model) to write various subscribers in Java to listen and react to changes in entities
- Worked on a cross team project to synchronize loan data between Redfin Mortgage platform and third party loan automation services to reduce improve loan closing speeds

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Led weekly recitations of 25+ students to teach foundational ideas in computer science
- Held personalized office hours to assist students with course material

### Software Engineer @ A9.com
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
- Designed and developed automated framework to fetch scalable, cost-effective and customizable labeled data using crowd-sourcing platforms
- Framework utilized AWS StepFunctions, Lambdas and Non-Relational databases for inexpensive, maintainable, and scalable back-ends.
- Employed serverless architecture for future developers to maintain and build framework easily
- Reduced labeling costs by 20-30x and reduced labeling time by 4-5x

### Software Consultant @ Adagio Health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Refactored a full stack health management application using MVC architecture in ASP.NET for a non profit women’s health company
- Migrated new system to run on Azure saving thousands of dollars in managing data centers and removing the pain of manually maintaining thousands of users profiles by allowing for SSO with Microsoft accounts
- Regularly communicated with non technical stakeholders of the project about technical aspects

### Software Engineering Intern @ Upturn Corporation
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed graphical functions for stock performance data-sets
leveraging tools like Pandas, NumPy and Matplotlib
- Automated displaying graphs to compare estimated stock ratings versus
actual performance
- Included regression lines, color and size mappings to highlight key data
points and trends
- Automated visualizations of performance results were critical to secure
funding

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
-Determined a cohesive ML benchmark by running multiple neural
networks on ImageNet training data-set to evaluate KPI such as image
processing speeds, total run time, and percentage of GPU and memory
used
- Utilized Tensor-board to evaluate model performance
- Developed and documented the environment setup for CUDA, Docker
and Nvidia-Docker to pull and run multiple images from Nvidia GPU
Cloud on Red Hat Enterprise Linux system
- Presented between cost efficiency and processing speed to help
understand how to offer better solutions to clients


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems
Carnegie Mellon University

### Saratoga High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kailas-shekar

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Last updated: 2026-03-29