# Neel Dhoundiyal

> Software Engineer @ Ikigai Labs | CS @ UC Berkeley

Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/neeldhoundiyal

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Ikigai
Jan 2025 – Present | Cambridge, MA
- Technical lead for a core backend domain, owning end-to-end delivery of customer-facing platform capabilities, from system design through production rollout.
- Led a full migration of the company’s logging and observability stack to a self-hosted solution, reducing annual infrastructure costs by $100K+ while improving scalability and query performance.
- Designed and implemented SAML-based Single Sign-On (SSO), strengthening authentication security and standardizing identity management across internal and customer-facing systems.

### Software Engineer @ Ikigai
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, MA
- Built a distributed, end-to-end data pipeline execution framework with Ray, enabling customizable workflows and scaling ingestion and processing to terabyte-scale datasets (≈10× scale improvement).
- Developed and maintained backend services within a gRPC-based microservices architecture.
- Drove the platform’s migration to Parquet-based data storage, improving ingestion and downstream processing performance by nearly 4×.
- Worked extensively across AWS infrastructure to design reliable, cost-efficient backend systems.

### Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Worked as a member of the CS 61B(Data Structures) course staff to help deliver course material.
• Assisted students during lab sections with associated material and by conducting lab checkoffs.
• Helped students navigate conceptual and debugging difficulties with projects and homework in office hours.

### Data Science Intern @ Educational Initiatives
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India
• Worked on building a data visualization depicting student progress across the various topics attempted on the Mindspark Math application.
• Processed and analyzed relevant student data using the NumPy and Pandas libraries in Python. Leveraged the Flask web-framework to build a RESTful API.
• Utilized D3.js Javascript library to render the visualization on a browser.

### Lab Assistant - CS 61A @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley, California
• Worked as a member of the CS 61A(Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) course staff to help deliver course material.
• Assisted students during lab sections with associated material and by conducting lab checkoffs.
• Helped students navigate conceptual and debugging difficulties with projects and homework in office hours.

### Student Ambassador @ Ministry of Education - Dubai, UAE
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Selected to represent GEMS Modern Academy at a panel conference held by the Ministry of Education based on the 'Future of Education'.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### ICSE in International Baccalaureate
GEMS Modern Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neel-dhoundiyal

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Last updated: 2026-03-31