# Rushabh Varia > Senior SWE | Building AI Infrastructure at Pinterest Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rushabhvaria Passionate, detail-oriented, and resourceful software engineer aspiring to build innovative solutions to modern problems. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pinterest Jan 2026 – Present Building Pinterest's AI Platform and Infrastructure ### Software Engineer II @ Pinterest Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA Building Agentic Solutions for Ads Infrastructure ### Software Engineer I @ Pinterest Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, CA Making Pinterest Ads Infrastructure better. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Itential Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States Prebuilts Team • Implemented company's automation software to streamline software upgrade of networking switches and routers for a telecom's multi-city 5G rollout using Itential’s Automation Platform (IAP) and Javascript • Completed a client request to add rollback and dry-run features to existing prebuilts as an upgrade • Built an API for the workflow so client can integrate the tool in their existing code • Improved the efficiency of Quality of Service checks done by company’s routers and interfaces by developing an automation workflow using IAP, Jinja2 and creating templates to automate setting configuration on routers for multiple devices • Built an automation tool which helped the company transition its clients from NSO to IAG – a newer and cheaper technology ### Software Engineer Co-Op @ Prabhudas Lilladher Private Limited Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 • Developed a RESTful web application using Django which hosts all the quant tools used by the team • Designed and implemented a tool that evaluates and predicts the sentiment of the financial markets using a proprietary algorithm and optimized using ML algorithms – dimensionality reduction on 120 factors and logistic regression • Programmed a Stock Grid tool which compares relative performance of stocks against indices to suggest which stocks to buy at what time of a crisis. This tool helped the company profit ~ $200,000 during the COVID-19 pandemic • Performed back-test and performance analysis to improve accuracy by 20-85% across 7 tools I developed • Help recruit and lead a team of 3 people who helped develop more quant tools and implement the tools I built on the cutting-edge mobile application - Prabhudas Lilladher App. Increased usage by 18% and downloads by 34% in 3 months. ### Quantitative Researcher Co-Op @ Prabhudas Lilladher Private Limited Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Investment Research & Product Strategy • Developed a tool that helped automate Nifty 50, Nifty Midcap and Nifty Bank index values in the MSSQL database, created a prediction model for the three indices using supervised Machine Learning algorithms and developed a backtest module to improve accuracy of the prediction model - Improved accuracy of the model by 33% than the previous model and saved time by improving efficiency by 375% • Modelled the sentiment of the financial markets using data points from various international markets’ indices and 43 other data points to give historic and future intensities of making a market call: Hold, Buy and Sell - Helped the company make intraday calls with an accuracy of 83% ### Software Development Engineer @ EcoCAR Mobility Challenge Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Greater Atlanta Area • Model hybrid vehicle components and fit them into the existing CAD Model of a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer using Siemens NX to prepare for future integration in year 2 of competition. • Implement SAE Level 2 automation and V2X connectivity (Connected And Autonomous Vehicle) - Use sensors to collect information about vehicle surroundings - Use data to control vehicle • Sensor fusion development and integration onto the controller • Created a tool that simulated randomized driving scenarios in MATLAB and Simulink to test out our connected and automated vehicle Chevrolet Blazer 2019 model. • Improved the efficiency and accuracy of the variety of tests by ~30%. Also, helped save time by not spending time manually create these scenarios. ### Software Engineer Intern @ ViDoc Healthcare Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Mumbai Area, India • Led a team of 5 employees to design architecture and implement an end-to-end tool to categorize scanned medical documents using Google Tesseract-OCR, Python, and MySQL • DocCat replaced 15 less skilled workers who manually categorized the files, thus saving the company INR 185,000/month • 120% faster and 65% more accurate than the system used before, processed 10 million old documents and new 9000 files/day • ViDoc’s popular products – MedPass & Emrix – are now used by 45 more hospitals because of the new fast processing tool ### Software Researcher @ Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Atlanta Area Garg Lab • Developed software to automate the process of finding fragments using CFM-ID used in Mass Spectrometry • Localized an online server by using its source code, making the process 40% faster and more efficient • Improved accuracy of results by 35% as fragment matching was now done using NLP (SpaCy Python Tool) ### Software Engineer Intern @ ViDoc Healthcare Solutions Pvt. Ltd. Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mumbai, India • Developed an attendance and payroll system for the employees using VB.NET and MS Access. • Company saved INR 15000 per month on logistics. • Productivity and employee attendance improved which increased their revenue by INR 76000 per month. • The system used identification card barcodes for attendance, sent automated emails to the employees. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Systems Georgia Institute of Technology ### IB Diploma Programme Oberoi International School ### IGCSE Billabong High International School (BHIS) ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rushabh-varia - Website: https://www.rushabhvaria.com - Website: https://meritpages.com/rushabhvaria --- Source: https://flows.cv/rushabhvaria JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rushabhvaria/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23