# Viral Doshi > Software Engineer II, Backend @Rivian | Ex - SDE II @Generac Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/viraldoshi Developing Factory Software and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) at Rivian Volkswagen Tech. Building large scale distributed software and ML powered data pipelines. Currently working on Backend Development and DevOps. With a strong foundation in data structures and algorithms, I excel at racking my brains to solve complex problems ! Languages: Go, Java, Python, C++, C, SQL Backend: Go, Spring, Flask, Node, Django, FastAPI Deployment: AWS, GitHub Actions, Docker, Ansible, CircleCI, Jenkins, Bash scripting Data: Hadoop, Apache Spark, MySQL, MongoDB, CockroachDB, Snowflake, ClickHouse ML: Tensorflow, PyTorch, OpenCV, Keras "Creativity is intelligence having fun." ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer II, Backend @ Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies Jan 2025 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Software Development Engineer II @ Generac Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Reno, Nevada, United States ### Software Engineer @ Generac Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Reno, Nevada, United States ### Research Assistant @ Stony Brook University Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Stony Brook, New York, United States Computer Vision Research Intern Developing a real-time smart employee attendance system based on Facial Recognition and Pose estimation on Edge devices (NVIDIA Jetson Orin) ### Software Development Engineer @ Zolo Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Leveraged expertise in Spring, Java contributing 10,000+ lines of code to architect innovative solutions, integrating MySQL and MongoDB databases for mission-critical business features. • Played a pivotal role in developing and enhancing Zolo Forms, incorporating crucial features like Audit trail, Dependent datasources, Dynamic approvals, etc resulting in a 50% usage growth. • Utilized CI/CD pipelines to deploy features, ensuring error monitoring and logging through tools like Kibana, Kafka, and Datadog, drastically reducing the daily error rate. ### Software Developer Internship @ Zolo Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India ### Research Assistant @ UC Santa Barbara Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Santa Barbara, California, United States Research Assistant in Computer Vision Mentor: Dr. Misha Sra • Co-authored a research paper in SIGCHI UIST ACM 2023 presenting a novel social media app featuring an emotion adaptive UI for improved messaging experiences. • Developed a low latency API using Python for image transfer facilitating facial expression recognition via DeepFace. • Crafted 4 diverse Flutter GUIs for the android application for transitioning emotions via UI modulation. ### Research and Innovation Intern @ Tata Consultancy Services Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Machine Learning R&D Intern • Conducted research aimed at contrasting traditional Machine Learning techniques with quantum implementations within the domain of medical drug reactions. • Performed statistical Data Analysis using Matplotlib and Seaborn Python libraries for analyzing Adverse Drug Reactions. • Implemented a Bi-LSTM model contributing to research, achieving an impressive accuracy over 91%. ### Research Assistant @ Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India Machine Learning Research Assistant Mentor: Dr. Asim Tewari • Engineered an Auto Answering NLP Model which searches and summarizes answers from a document within 3 seconds. • Implemented parallel architecture for encapsulating various NLP based techniques like Keyword Extraction, Summarization, Vectorization, Scoring functions etc. • Attained a robust 75% accuracy in identifying and summarizing subjective answers within provided document sets. ### Software Consultant @ The Times Of India Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India • Designed an automated system for managing invoices and purchase orders using Python. • Created a graphical interface for Purchase Orders and Invoices merger with 0 manual intervention. • Final version completely error free and automated reducing effort worth 12 hours to 2 seconds. ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Science Stony Brook University ### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science and Engineering ( CSE ) Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur ### Higher Secondary (HSC) in Science Pace Junior Science College ### SSC in Schooling Rustomjee International School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/doshi-viral --- Source: https://flows.cv/viraldoshi JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/viraldoshi/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11