# Samarth Jain

> Software Engineer

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

Check out my personal website at www.samarthjain.me

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Common Room
Jan 2025 – Present
(Common Room has been ranked one of the top 25 startups in the US this year)

### ML Infra Engineer @ DeepScribe
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Streamlined AI deployment using AWS, Python, Github Actions and Terraform, which led to a ~84% AI cost reduction over 3 months.

### Software Development Engineer @ DeepScribe
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
- Contributed to core AI Medical Scribe software in a dynamic startup, helping practitioners save ~3 hours daily through rapid prototyping and iteration.

- Designed a note auditing / correction tool, thereby streamlining scribing quality, increasing customer satisfaction by 43%.

- Architected a scalable data analytics infrastructure, enabling faster decision-making for the leadership.

- Led initiatives to manage sensitive healthcare data, ensuring compliance with trust and safety standards.

### Software Engineer 2 @ Oracle
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States
- Developed new features and maintained code base of volume management and file system kernel drivers on Linux

- Wrote well-designed and testable code using C

- Designed functional tests and validation procedures using internal tools and Perl programming language

- Applied Linux Kernel principles such as locking, multi-threading, and security paradigms etc. 

- Leveraged several tools such as Crash / GDB, x64 Assembly, Perl, Git, linux command line tools such as grep, awk, sed, vim etc.

### Software Development Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Berlin, Germany
- Improved the ranking algorithm at Amazon Gifting, a curated catalog of products designed to inspire gift ideas, by using Java and Spring

- Delivered code in a microservices-based model that dealt with data of millions of products, using the big data library Apache Spark and ElasticSearch, to rank them in their correct categories in AWS S3

- Aided in the ranking of products by implementing Thompson Sampling, an exploration/exploitation probability model, which brought less-popular products up in the rank

- Collaborated with a team of 9 on ideas for new ways of optimizing product ranking and curating

- Contributed to Correction of Errors during the peak, Q4, Thanksgiving period

- Led A/B-testing of the experiment which produced 3% increase in sales within 1 week after the end of the project, in key markets such as UK, Germany and France

### Bio-classification Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
- Qualitatively analyzed and implemented a Neural Net on human genomic data of more than 15,000 patients to find patterns between bacterial taxons from those DNA sequences and human habits and diseases

- Cleaned and prepared data using multiple techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis, on Pandas in Python

- Generated a Neural Net out of the cleaned data on Keras in Python and experimented with different data splits for cross-validation

### NLP Research Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
-Worked at Center for Cognitive Systems Computing Research

-Developed an artificial cognitive system that can be used in the media, files, content of Massive Open Online Courses etc., and classify it

-Collected data from web using Python and Beautiful Soup to extract information from sites like Wikipedia


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering
EPFL
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### High School
The Shri Ram School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jsamarth
- GitHub: https://github.com/jsamarth
- Website: http://samarthjain.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-01