# Ricky Sharma

> AI Innovation

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rickysharma

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Intuit
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
AI Research Futures Org

### Principal Software Engineer @ Laurel
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Senior Staff Engineer @ Hopin
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ WW (formerly Weight Watchers)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Led the building and architecture for a personalization system using NodeJS/React.
 - used by teams across the organization
 - system allows defining of schemas for UI components across mobile/web
 - content reuse and recommendations based on different objective functions
 - introduced snapshot testing, CICD optimizations, and maintained A or better code coverage
 - delivered a personalization solution after the company had a few failed attempts
 - service integrated with many apps, microservices, and data sources/sinks

Maintained, extended, and refactored backend APIs
 - Updated activities APIs and data architecture to conform to modern practices
 
Got to the bottom of many long standing issues across teams 
     - deeplinking into mobile apps (discovered edge cases, delivered and tested solutions)
     -  race conditions across services (found issues that caused rare bugs and evangelized my solutions)
     - dealt with bursts of network traffic that would overwhelm caching layers (introduced smoothing techniques and tweaked computation resources)
     - fixed, recovered, or deleted a lot of testing code
     - introduced a few engineers to OWASP, and found/fixed and reduced the attack surface for DDOS attacks
     - fought a year long battle to bring react to WW (now its go to frontend framework)

### Architect in Residence @ Horizons School of Technology
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Senior JavaScript Instructor
- Lectured on React, Redux, React Native,  React Router, Socket.io, Mongoose, Heroku, HTML/CSS/JQuery, Authentication, Express Middleware,Webpack, ES6-7, Promises, Browser performance, Web Security, JavaScript "good" and "bad" parts,  algorithms, and scalability
- Trained >200 developers ranging from students with graduate degrees in computer science from top schools around the world to high schoolers with little exposure to programming

### Co-Founder & President @ Voo (Acquired 2017)
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Technical cofounder for Voo. Primary ownership over backend services, fundraising, and product direction.
- Built two highly available and scalable cloud hosted NodeJS clusters behind reverse proxies (nginx)
    - Express RESTful API service for mobile and web application: redis, mongodb, twilio, push notifications, 
       socket.io, passport, S3, imgur, mocha, chai, travis, google apis (geolocation, places, phone), and rollbar
- Recommendation Engine service powered by NodeJS, NEO4j, redis, CICD/TDD, and a custom recommendation algorithm

### Research and Teaching Assistant @ Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Computer Network Fundamentals
Data Structures
Big Data, Small Languages, Scalable Systems

### Research Assistant @ Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014
Distributed Systems Lab
DARPA funded. Assisted in research tasks. Reading and presenting papers. Implementing and designing a recovery strategy for restoring potentially compromised nodes.

Machine Learning & Data Intensive Computing Lab
Research focus on machine learning at scale

### Senior Backend Engineer @ Jurispect
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Primary:
 Backend Infrastructure (Google Cloud, AWS, Rackspace)
 Backend Engineering (Node,MongoDB,RethinkDB,Neo4J,Redis, RabbitMQ,Python,Flask)
 Security & Optimizations
Secondary:
 Data Science (Clustering, Graph Algorithms)
 Front-end Development (AngularJS)

### Mathematics Lecturer @ City College of New York
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | New York City
I taught the following courses:
Math 15000: Mathematics for the Contemporary World
Math 17300: Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Math 20100: Calculus I
Math 20500: Elements of Calculus
Math 37500: Elements of Probability Theory


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)(Incomplete) in Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017

### Master of Engineering (MEng) in Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Pure Mathematics Track
The City College of New York
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22