# Neil Vakharia

> SWE @ Instagram | CS + Math @ Northwestern University

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/neilvakharia

I am a hardworking and motivated Software Engineer and am excited to meet new people!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
Instagram DM, Instagram Stories

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Novi

### Software Engineer @ DraftKings Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Computer Science Teaching Assistant @ Northwestern University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Evanston, Illinois, United States
Teaching Assistant for Introduction To Computer Systems (CS-213)

### Mathematics Teaching Assistant @ Northwestern University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Evanston, Illinois

### Mathematics Peer Leader @ Northwestern University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Evanston, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Rapunzl - Learn. Trade. Win.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
-Redesigned the create account sequence to prevent unnecessary renders of React Native components, thereby reducing thread FPS.
-Designed and Implemented an educational component displaying academic articles/videos to enhance the learning experience. (Received positive reviews about this feature on the App/Play Store).
-Developed a search functionality to increase user convenience by making GraphQL queries to a PostgreSQL database.
-Prevented memory leaks and reduced memory usage by using FlatLists to display data and caching images locally in WebP format.
-Implemented features such as 'Push Notifications' and 'Rate Now'.
-Refactored parts of the code base to get rid of rid of legacy code.

### Research Software Engineer @ tiilt Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Evanston, Illinois
-Developed a Wear OS smartwatch fitness application to teach school children the correlation between sports and technology.
-Implemented features to display and record motion sensor data on a remote server to analyze the effect of various activities on the sensors.
-Integrated speech recognition to enrich user experience.
-Trained a multi-class logistic regression model to classify activities based on accelerometer and gyroscope data achieving 94% accuracy.

### Data Science Intern @ SONIC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Evanston, Illinois
-Processed game and survey data from 20 experimental studies investigating social structures through networks and Graph Theory.
-Wrote functions to calculate social network parameters using R.
-Used data visualization libraries such as ggplot2 to present my findings.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Northwestern University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
Northwestern University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021

### Indian School Certificate in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Economics, English
The Cathedral and John Connon School
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/neil-vakharia-42391a157

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Last updated: 2026-03-23