# Nikhil Miskin > Senior Software Engineer at FalconX | Ex-Amazon | IIT Bombay Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/nikhilmiskin I am pursuing Masters in Computer Science at Illinois Tech and completed my bachelors at IIT Bombay, currently seeking full time positions starting May 2021 in Data Science, Software Development and Machine Learning. I am experienced in full stack application development including building and integrating Machine Learning components. I am well versed with Mathematics behind ML, NLP and Deep learning algorithms. I have also worked on full stack applications following a micro-services based architecture using Kafka and deploying on Docker containers. My Technical Skills include •Programming: Python (Flask, Qt, Keras), Java (Maven, Ant, Tesseract, OpenCV), C++, C, HTML, CSS, JS •Frameworks: ReactJS, ExtJS, Spring, Apache Camel, Hibernate, Hazelcast, REST APIs •Databases: MySQL, SQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, SQL server, Elasticsearch •Other tools: Openshift, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS (EC2, EBS, RDS), GCP, Git, Jira, Linux, R, MATLAB LATEX Apart from my technical interests, I gel well with people and like working as a team and strongly believe in growing together. I like travelling, connecting with people across the globe and exploring new cultures. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ FalconX Jan 2023 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ FalconX Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Mateo, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States ### Graduate Research Assistant @ Illinois Institute of Technology Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States Image Captioning using deep learning. Currently, read and understood the papers on GAN, DCGAN, Conditional GAN, traditional encoder-decoder with attention approach, SeqGAN and Self Critical Sequence Training (SCST). Working on implementing image captioning with a combination of SeqGAN and SCST algorithms using PyTorch. ### Data Science Intern @ Ascendo AI Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Developed an unsupervised framework for ad-hoc retrieval of documents (approximately 150k) given queries - Designed Autoencoder based model to perform sentence similarity to identify when user feedback should be considered - Used Google’s Universal Encoder Model followed by clustering to predict context specific similarity - Productionized the solution by deploying it on Flask app, researching on Big Data services which adhere to the requirements ### Software Developer - Computer Vision @ Argonne National Laboratory Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Chicago Area I am currently working on an application named MuscleX to analyse diffraction of X-ray images in collaboration with Illinois Tech and Argonne National Laboratory. - Enabled non-square image rotation without cropping image; Provided option to draw mask and applied it to original image - Developed Parameter Editor module which allows user to tweak, fix/unfix fit parameters and dynamically add new parameters - Prepared a new release on pip,docker and windows distributions; documenting the changes for the new release ### Machine Learning Engineer @ ANZ Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru Area, India - Automated validation of shipping documents as per the Letter of Credit and UCP/ICC rules using Machine Learning tools like OCR, NER, NLP and TF-IDF models for one of the largest Australian banks - Improved extraction from unstructured documents by developing local context and levenshtein distance based spell-check - Compared parsing English sentences using custom vs Stanford’s CFG models and extracted information from parsed trees - Deployed application on OpenShift environment, involving 5 micro-services communicating with each other using Kafka ### Java Software Engineer @ FINMECHANICS Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai Area, India - Automatic generation of deal intimation and confirmation documents for IRS, FX Options and their derivatives, FX Forward Cancellation and Rollover on FMConverge. Solely responsible for development, execution and delivery of the entire project - Assisted in developing adaptor for streaming prices generated on FMConnect onto Bloomberg FXGO using FIX protocol - Developed client specific modules with Spring, Hibernate, Hazelcast, Apache Camel on Java, ReactJS, ExtJS frameworks ### Summer Research Student @ Indiana University Bloomington Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | United States Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Nanofluidic System - Refitted Hill’s force field into CHARMM format, validated it by analyzing contour plots of energy vs bonded parameters - Extracted Hepatitis B Virus hexamer from entire capsid; prepared topology and parameter files for NAMD simulation - Modelled one, two SiO 2 molecules in VMD; conducted energy minimization of resulting structures using NAMD - Replicated SiO 2 using 10 million atoms to generate 3D silica structures ensuring stability of each atom using TCL scripting ### Competitions Manager @ AZeotropy, IIT Bombay Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | India India’s Leading Intercollegiate Chemical Engineering Symposium - Led two-tier team of 14 to execute 10 competitions across genres with 2500+ participants, managing budget of INR 2 Lakhs - Ideated theme for the symposium; pioneered and executed new theme based competition 0-Urza involving 75+ participants - Revamped national level quiz Chem-O-Philia, expanded to 18 centers across India (50% year-on-year growth) - Restructured Chem-E-Car, modeling a self driven chemically powered car, which witnessed 250+ participation ### Android Developer @ ZipTown - Your Personal Delivery Assistant Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mumbai Area, India - Developed app Udhaar; published on Google Play Store; based on idea of peer to peer money lending - Designed database on MySQL to store borrower details created; prepared interactive interface to view the same - Enhanced user experience by implementing invite friends option, navigation drawer, SMS verification and Facebook login ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 ### Algorithms Specialization in Algorithms Stanford University Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nikhilpmiskin --- Source: https://flows.cv/nikhilmiskin JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/nikhilmiskin/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23