# Rohit Kulkarni > SWE II at Chainalysis Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rohitkulkarni ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II @ Chainalysis Jan 2025 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Software Developer @ OfferUp Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Bellevue, Washington, United States - Owned service (800 req/s) to track user insights based on classifications to aid personalization experimentation, including developing, deploying, and maintaining two new classifiers for first-time posters and high-volume sellers. - Created MVP of OfferUp Communities responsible for pagination and retrieving posts (750K expected users). - Implemented moderation logic within server layer and DynamoDB for Communities (caught >150 “bad” posts in beta). - Led cross-functional effort to create high availability Kafka based data infrastructure that tracks all ongoing promotions by item, categorizes views and engagements (75M events per month) based on promotion status, and enriches data stream. - Created KSQL pipeline and API interface to assign pricing data to item posts and store this information in DynamoDB. - Migrated deployment for 3 high-volume (> 1M req/mo) kubernetes services to ArgoCD to reduce mean time to repair by 80%. - Restructured location service, resolved two year old issues and created error-handling infrastructure to save requests to external API (1.24M requests per month avoided), increase robustness/availability, and reduce operational cost. - Onboarded 7 near-real time event types to the admin portal, improving admin visibility and simplifying event management. - Built integration testing architecture for personalization service (300 req/s) to reduce testing workload to a 1-click action. - Created live Datadog dashboard regarding team ownership of (>1,000) AWS cloud resources used by DevOps to triage issues. - Engineered MVP for a notification system for unread messages and won “user-retention” themed hackathon. ### Platform Engineering Intern @ Arista Networks Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Santa Clara, California, United States Designed and authored test suite with over 20 test modules for 80% coverage of the production-level Hardware Test Database interface utilizing Python and SQL for unit testing and overall integration testing to aid in large-scale database migration rollout. ▪ Analyzed requirements from team of 5 software engineers and developed appropriate continuous-integration pipeline in Gitlab for the test suite that set-up and deployed tests in parallel MySQL and MariaDB Docker containers at 12-hour intervals. ▪ Independently developed lightweight bash script that increased deployment speed by 66% by allowing developers to make changes in the test suite, commit those changes in Git, and run the test pipeline in a specified environment with a single command. ### ASSIST Lab Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University of California, Santa Cruz Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Santa Cruz, California, United States ▪ Collecting and modeling qualitative and quantitative data from 10 participants in a behavioral study involving haptic feedback gaming equipment. ▪ Reading and analyzing 12 papers about haptic gaming and the psychological factors that play into e-sports for research context. ▪ Writing as co-author on research paper associated with ASSIST Lab ### App Development and Natural Language Processing Intern @ HereAfter AI Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Oakland, California, United States ▪ Created, tested, and presented a Virtual Journalist application that runs on Android, iOS, and Web, including a messaging bot that lets users record stories, securely stores user recordings and account information, and allows access to previous recordings. ▪ Implemented the application with a Python (Flask) backend and React JS, Angular, and the Ionic Framework. Stored and accessed user account information, along with individual recordings, from an existing AWS EC2 instance. ▪ Analyzed and learned from academic papers about Neural Networks, the Transformer NLP model, and state of the art Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing technologies. ### Software Engineering Intern @ IpserLab Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Jose, California, United States ▪ Designed and implemented a responsive web interface in HTML/CSS/JavaScript that allowed users to package and sell their own recipes to food product manufacturers in a marketplace environment. ▪ Planned and developed features including a star-rating system for customers and individual recipes, and a Profile page. ▪ Refactored login flow and user account page using the Bootstrap framework and AJAX to add simplicity and aesthetic to user experience. ### Store Associate @ CREAM (Cookies Rule Everything Around Me), Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, California, United States ▪ Developed organizational and customer service skills while keeping track of orders in-store and from DoorDash. ▪ Created desserts while logging and adjusting inventory based on time of day and customer frequency. ### Teaching Assistant @ Math Enrichment Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cupertino, CA -Helped students through their math homework and answered their questions -Kept track of student scores and reported performances to parents ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of California, Santa Cruz ### High School Diploma Lynbrook High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rohit-kulkarni2000 --- Source: https://flows.cv/rohitkulkarni JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rohitkulkarni/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05