# Pushkar Tharval

> Software Engineer at Amazon

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

Software engineer with perpetual interest in building APIs and frameworks and growing interest in backend development and system design.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer III @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Greater New York City Area

### Software Engineer II @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York
Job Title: AVP, Programmer

### Technology Developer and Analyst @ Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017
I have worked / am working on developing following projects. Technology used for all of these is Python and various database systems.
1. Report Generator Framework
2. Strats tool for CMBS desk
3. Risk Reporting application for CLO desk
4. Worked on developing features in following applications  - Trade due diligence system, position management system etc.
I will be updating description on all these projects shortly.

### Summer Intern @ Leisure Living
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Designed and developed(full life-cycle) an Android E-commerce shopping cart native application for PoolSupplies.com, a division of Leisure Living. It is currently published in Beta version on Google Play and soon be taken into production.
- Built on Android Platform(intents, services, threading, activity, fragments, etc).Implemented the requirements of a shopping cart application with advanced features like recently viewed products, related products, top - selling products in a category, product filters etc.
- Used multi-threaded development approach and Android services to make the app responsive and faster search & filter functionalities. Built local storage for the application (local DB, data caching) using all Android storage options.
- Extended enterprise functionalities (promotion engine, order queuing) and payment gateway services to the mobile app using JSON. It was also used along with the Android-PHP-MySQL connection to access the MySQL backend.
- Synchronized the web-based mobile database to the enterprise DB and obtained the required materialized views which were accessed inside the app by writing SQL triggers and stored procedures. Improved response time for fetching results in the app by almost three seconds by using materialized views.

### System Analyst Trainee @ Skillnet Solutions Inc
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
- Worked on Oracle Retail Point-of-Service(ORPOS) module development while implementing Oracle Retail Store solutions.  The technology primarily used for development was core and advanced Java.
- Contributed to web-service development to consume third-party services (SOAP API) and core UI dev. (Java Swing).

### Project Intern @ Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
I worked on developing Visitors Information System that is deployed and in active use at the organization. Technologies used were PHP, MySql and RedHat Linux


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science
University at Buffalo

### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Information Technology
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/pushkartharval1

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Last updated: 2026-04-05