# Pooja P.

> Software Engineer | Rubrik

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/poojap1

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Rubrik
Jan 2026 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Seattle, Washington, United States
AWS Control Tower

### Co-Founder @ The Tech Girlies
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
if you are looking for an internship/new grad role, you can checkout The Tech Girlies (a non profit)

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024
• Contributed to the development of a Virtual File System-based Mono repository project aimed at enhancing developer productivity within Microsoft's WebXT organization. 
• Designed and implemented a solution that allows the storage of files larger than 2GB within a hierarchical blob structure (for the mono repo). This enhancement enabled individual files to be stored up to 2TB in size, providing a more versatile storage solution.
• Developed an Insights Dashboard to extract organization-wide insights from developer metrics, facilitating the tracking, measurement, and improvement of developer productivity. This involved tasks such as data cleaning, querying, and query optimization, achieved through the integration of Power BI and Azure Data Explorer.
• Undertook ownership of multiple features, including the migration of storage systems from Cosmos Blobs to Azure Blob Storage. This transition was aimed at enhancing the platform's read/write performance for a smoother user experience.
• Played a key role in standardizing 10 repositories at the organizational level, facilitating the transition from legacy-style XML to the Traversal SDK

### Project Intern @ Optimum Data Analytics
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
• Contributed to building a generalized named entity recognition framework to extract custom data from images of bills in English Language. 
• Built a text annotation tool named "Simple Text Annotation tool" which allows user to annotate text data with custom entities and gives output as a training data for spaCy models.
• Published two papers as a co-author on a Simple Text Annotation tool that we built and Generalized Named Entity recognition framework in Springer and IEEE respectively.

### Technology Analyst Intern @ Deutsche Bank
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Ideated a use case for the given problem statement to showcase a proof-of-concept Spark SQL Statement Analyzer for attribute level lineage.
• Setup Hadoop cluster from scratch and developed multi-level queries to display their lineage.
• Integrated Spline Web UI with Spark

### Citi Bridge - Trainee @ Citi
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
• Selected for a mentorship program from 250 students in contention.
• Built an arbitrage recommendation system that shows real time arbitrage for stocks in NSE/BSE India in a team of 5 under the guidance of a mentor from Citi Bank, India 
• Improved the performance of the website by reducing the latency time of calls to the Yahoo Finance API by 2 seconds.

### UX Design Intern @ Edunoz
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Worked as a User Experience Design Intern during my summer break after second year to create multiple low fidelity and high fidelity wire-frames for an educational website using Balsamiq and Adobe XD. Learned about User Stories and Design Thinking during this Internship.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science
MKSSS Cummins College of Engineering for Women


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11