# Raghav Apoorv

> Uber | Georgia Tech | Ex-Zomato

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/raghavapoorv

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the industry. Skilled in Java, Go, Python, PHP, React, JavaScript, Mobile Engineering and Machine Learning. Strong engineering professional pursuing MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Uber
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Graduate Research Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
- Building tools to support Online Masters of Science Program at Georgia Tech, part of the Jack Watson Research group, supervised by Professor Thad Starner
- Developing systems to detect plagiarism in Take-Home Exams

### Software Engineer Intern - Marketplace @ Uber
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
· Built an ML model to predict driver behavior to drive for Uber vs Competition, expected to improve driver supply
· Designed and developed a scalable data platform to perform complex queries on driver data using Spark and Hive
· Created dashboards for leadership team for analyzing trends on tendency of an Uber driver to drive for the Competition

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020
Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS6601: Artificial Intelligence, a graduate-level course with Professor Thad Starner

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Graduate Teaching Assistant for CS6601: Artificial Intelligence, a graduate-level course with Professor Thomas Ploetz

### Engineering Lead @ Zomato
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Gurugram, Haryana, India
• Technologies used - Go, PHP, MySQL, React, Redux, React Native, JavaScript, Redis, Firebase, SQS, S3, Aurora, AWS
• Leveraged user segregation data science models for improving audience targeting for digital ads which led to an increase in efficiency by ~5% and savings of $500k monthly
• Reduced 60% user support queries by building a decision tree chat-bot to automate queries
• Enhanced scalability for 10x user growth by restructuring Messaging Realtime DB instance into multiple shards
• Collaborated with the CEO, analyzed relevancy of ads and served targeted ads using Google Adwords and Facebook Ads; increasing user count by 10% monthly

### Software Engineer @ Zomato
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Gurgaon, Haryana, India
• Worked on breaking the monolithic structure into microservices for scaling of the application and independent deployment 
• Increased the uptime by 50% by developing an independent chat support system platform to replace existing third party tool
• Decreased the deployment time by 25%  by revamping the Restaurant app in React Native and PHP

### Software Engineer Intern @ Citi
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pune, Maharashtra, India
• 	Improved the performance for regulatory stress testing system, reducing runtime by ~30% 
• 	Developed a tool in JAVA to migrate the existing projects from Ant to Maven build system 
• 	Worked on migration of the entire code repository from SVN to Git version control system

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Autoninja
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Hauz Khas, Delhi
•  Worked on the On Board Diagnostics (OBD) device used in the car
•  Build an application to read the values from the OBD device through a Bluetooth enabled signals
•  Converted the signals into various metrics important for the health of the vehicle - Fuel Efficiency, Engine Health etc

### Co Founder @ Greplr
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Delhi
The core technology was sold and in a modified form used by Micromax in their 'Around YU' product. 

Greplr was a super aggregator, aggregating various utilities and services under one hood, such as booking cabs, trains, flights, movies and shows, shopping, news, searching restaurants all under the banner of Greplr. Greplr comes from the word Grep, which means to search. 

• Developed a hyperlocal super aggregator, aggregated cab services, restaurants, air and bus ticketing services into one app
• Compares prices between different e-commerce websites and gets the user the best price for the product or service

### Android Developer @ InsuringIndia
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Gurgaon, Delhi
Developed the android application for InsuringIndia.com
- The application had the ability to search, compare and buy insurances
- Integrated APIs of various insurers to fetch quotations of various insurance products based on the search
- Developed and designed the User Experience for making the searching of quotations easier


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021

### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Mathematics and Computer Science
Delhi College of Engineering
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Delhi Public School Rohini


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22