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Hi!, I am Pinku

Pinku Deb Nath

Software Engineer at ex - Amazon Web Services.

I am a passionate software engineer with over 4 years of working experience. I have developed backend services using GO and Java. I have also worked on integrating computer vision and web development using MediaPipe, C++ and WebAssembly. I also have many years of competitive programming experience.

Problem Solving
Grit
Team Work

Skills

Experiences

1
Amazon Web Services.

April 2022 - Sept 2023

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Amazon Web Services is a widely recognized cloud computing service provider and is part of Amazon.

Software Engineer

April 2022 - Sept 2023

Responsibilities:
  • As a core member of Application AutoScaling, I have gained extensive knowledge in service-oriented architectures and cloud infrastructures.
  • Autoscaling is an important feature for reducing costs and I have worked on integrating auto scaling with popular AWS products such as EC2, DynamoDB, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CDK, SageMaker, ECS, EMR and ElasticCache during expansion to new regions.
  • I have owned projects end to end by making design plans reviewed by my team, task breakdown, security approvals, implementing the updates, deploying world wide, and implementing validation and load tests.
  • Designed and implemented an improved throttling process by setting up rules for groups that accounts can join to get higher throttling rates. The upgrade expedited new region builds by one week as other teams can independently join groups with higher limits without requiring manual update from our team.
  • Collaborated on enabling custom math expressions that combine more than one metrics for setting up auto scaling configurations.
  • I am experienced in operations as I have on-call experience tackling multiple critical team-wide and a number of organization wide severities.

3333 University Way, Kelowna, BC, Canada V1V 1V7

The University of British Columbia is one of the top universities in the world for education and research. I completed my Masters in Computer Science from the Okanagan campus of the university.

Graduate Research Assistant

Sept 2019 - April 2022

Responsibilities:
  • I worked on various research projects as part of my Masters thesis.
  • I created a virtual interface using commodity webcam with which the users can interact in mid-air space. I am also aiming to incorporate a depth camera to detect tap/click gestures.
  • I have developed applications for smartwatch prototype augmented with a joystick. The applications I developed include an offline map and a 2D game.
  • I have trained models using Tensorflow to recognize gestures of a stretchable resistive watchband prototype and developed a prototype system that concurrently listened for requests, classified gesture patterns and returned classifications back to the smartwatch.
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California, USA

I worked for the organization Mediapipe (Google LLC) as part of Google Summer of Code 2021.

Student Developer

May 2021 - Aug 2021

Responsibilities:
  • I worked on building a web video effects app using MediaPipe, WebAssembly and WebGL.
  • I set up C++ to WebAssembly compilation in the MediaPipe Bazel build pipeline.
  • I created WASM binaries of frequently used MediaPipe examples.

Pathao

April 2018 - July 2019

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Pathao is a leading ride-sharing and food delivery company in Bangladesh.

Software Engineer

April 2018 - July 2019

Responsibilities:
  • I developed microservices in Go and used Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform for deployment
  • I worked on refactoring a number of components of a monolith codebase written in PHP into Go microservices that enabled faster response time which resulted in higher customer retention and completed transactions.
  • I implemented event sourcing paradigm for decoupling communications among services into events through an event bridge.
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Meghdut Analytics

Feb 2017 - Feb 2018

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Software Engineer

August 2017 - Feb 2018

Responsibilities:
  • I developed and maintained features using Go and ReactJS.
Software Engineer Intern

Feb 2017 - July 2017

Responsibilities:
  • I onboared to the main code repository and worked on adding new features.

Education

M.Sc. in Computer Science
CGPA: 4.2 out of 4
B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering
CGPA: 3.98 out of 4
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Represented my university in competitive programming contests.
Achievements:
Graduated as Class of 2018 Valedictorian and was 2nd in Entrance Exam (2013 Spring).

Projects

MediaPipe
MediaPipe
Contributor May 2021 - Aug 2021

Framework for building apps that use trained TFLite models on streaming data such as live video.

PalmSpaceJS
Developer Aug 2021 - Dec 2021

A web app that implements interactive 2D interface on the palm using webcams without requiring depth-sensing capabilities.

goheap
Developer Dec 2018 - Jan 2019

Minimum Heap implementation in GO.

METER-Weather-reports
Developer March 2024 - April 2024

A visualization project using Mage for ETL, GCS for storage, ApacheSpark via DataProc for stream, BigQuery for analysis and Looker Studio for visualization dashboard.