# Vismitha Narayanaswamy > Software Engineer @CodeRabbit | Big Data & Distributed Systems | Masters at CMU | JN Tata Scholar Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/vismitha "The value is in what gets used, not in what gets built" I am an experienced Software Engineer with sharp product acumen, curious to answer "Why I do, What I do" in every role I take up. I talk about Innovation Management in Industries, the Golden Ration of Investment in Innovation, and Strategy Development. As a Masters student of Engineering and Technology Innovation Management, I focus on evaluating the value of my tech products, be it revenue growth, solving user needs, or disrupting market space. If you are looking to evaluate your product placement or commercialize your technology, do hit me up. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ CodeRabbit Jan 2026 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Engineer L2 @ Autodesk Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA Data Observability - Designed data pipelines that power Autodesk's customer journey analytics, focusing on the critical touchpoints of product selection, checkout and buy experience. - My work directly impacts customer conversion rates and satisfaction metrics through data-driven insights. ### Data Engineer @ Vertex Inc. Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States - Led an innovation Capstone project to develop a Data query framework to identify business tax-exempt status across various states and municipal databases. - Addressing challenges of inconsistent data sources to mitigate the risks of operational inefficiencies, and ensuring accurate compliance with tax regulations. ### Business and Technology Commercialisation Lead @ Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation - Facilitating and accelerating the movement of research and technology out of the university and into the marketplace. - Assessed the commercialization viability of cutting-edge university research by identifying market opportunities and potential industry partners. - Worked with faculty and researchers to translate their innovations into viable commercial ventures, by developing go-to-market plans and financial modeling, providing strategic advice on patents and licensing opportunities. - Mentored startups incubated at the university on business model development, User Research, funding strategies, and product-market fit. ### Software Engineer @ Autodesk Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Autodesk E-commerce division (https://www.autodesk.com/product) - Spearheaded E-commerce Payment Fraud Intelligence initiative, to identify and block fraudulent transactions across payment services providers. - Designed an ETL pipeline and governance framework to process and analyze payment transactions. - Developed dashboards and analytical tools to monitor fraud patterns, providing real-time insights to the business for better decision-making and fraud mitigation. - Collaborated with product, data science, and engineering to access current market solutions for fraud detection systems, ensuring alignment with company goals. - Integrated cross-sell and upsell product recommendation ML Intelligence to Autodesk Checkout platform, improving Customer experience and Average order value. ### Software Development Engineer II @ SIXT Research & Development India Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Software Development Engineer 1 @ SIXT Research & Development India Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Digital Vehicle Checkout (E-commerce) Product - Backend architect for Vehicle Rental application, that aimed to adapt digital checkouts, reducing the average checkout time per customer from 10 mins to 4 mins. - Architected end-to-end development of Backend API Event Publisher system, strategically transitioning from Spring Boot events to Kafka, resulting in a 10% reduction in event processing time on the user thread, enhancing API response time. Process - Improved Mobile Check-In Funnel Conversion Rate from 7% to 15% via A/B/C testing on "on-the-fence" customers, leveraging data-driven insights for incremental sales and enhanced ROI. Achieved ~6000 digital checkouts/day in the last two quarters. - Collaborated with Business Intelligence analysts and Product Owners to devise a targeted marketing strategy, focusing on discounting of upsell vehicles and protection packages, enhancing the product’s Incremental Revenue per Day by 7%. - Integrated Elastic Search capabilities on Customer help center site enhancing the relevancy score of search results and query optimization for improved customer satisfaction. - Developed an internal Spring library that executes security and business use-case validations, employing Chain of Responsibility design pattern enabling sequential processing of user requests along a chain of validation handlers.
 People - Headed a high-performing team of 3 to automate a monitoring and alerting system to gauge API performance metrics using Kibana, Prometheus, and Grafana, cutting on-call responsibilities by a massive 40%. ### Software Development Engineer @ Hevo Data Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Devops Engineer - Streamlined testing and qualifying phases of ETL pipeline by facilitating an Infrastructure platform that hosts Generic Databases and AWS RDS on AWS Fargate, as docker images. Developed APIs to interact with Test Database Instances and authenticate users. - Developed an Employee Roles and Resource Allocation Platform, automating role-based access controls for GitHub, Gmail, and AWS Cloud. - Published thesis “Test Infrastructure Management Platform to Launch Short Instances on Demand” International Journal of Advance Research and Innovative Ideas in Education Journal Volume VII. Issue III (2021): 1782-1790. ### Software Product Development Intern @ Visa Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | India • Designed Open Loop unified Payment product solution to expedite Cash Displacement by leveraging Visa-branded payment products. • Proposed usage of ‘Aadhar card’ (SSN) as a digital wallet for public transport facilities and government offices, aiming to reduce the usage of hard cash by approximately 40% and accelerate the digitalized payment ecosystem. ### Research Intern @ Samsung R&D Institute India - Bangalore Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Text Intelligence (AI & NLP) Demographics detection(age and gender) of guest account customers on Samsung e-commerce site based on search text. Increasing relevancy of ad placements, product, and offer recommendation based on customer demographics. ### Student Campus Ambassador @ Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 * As the Student Campus Ambassador for Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions, I served as the Student Point of Contact at R.V. College of Engineering. * Successfully organized Bosch career fairs and hiring events, leading to a notable increase in on-campus recruitments. * Facilitated students' understanding of Bosch products and services, showcasing innovations and cutting-edge technologies. ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Engineering and Technology Innovation Management Carnegie Mellon University ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Information science and engineering RV College Of Engineering ### 12th grade in PCMCs Expert Group of Institutions ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vismithan --- Source: https://flows.cv/vismitha JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vismitha/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05