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Wren D'Silva

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Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Development Engineer 2

Expedia
09.2022 - Current
  • Expedia Loyalty Program Backend Software Developer.
  • Contributed extensively to the Expedia-Wells Fargo cobranded credit card project, targeting an estimated 7 million cardholders. Highest priority Expedia project Q3 2022 - Q2 2025.
  • Responsible for designing, implementing, and executing crucial components of Expedia's Cobranded Credit card, including application submission, authentication, saving cards to user wallets, and asynchronous tier updates.
  • Utilized technologies: Java Spring Boot, Kotlin, DynamoDb, Redis.

Software Development Engineer

Yahoo! Inc.
08.2021 - 09.2022
  • Developed web services and application layer for Yahoo Mail, with a focus on the mail middle-tier for syncing non-Yahoo accounts to the Yahoo Mail client.
  • Successfully reduced excess logging resulting from specific exceptions by approximately 12%.
  • Played a key role in the development of features enabling the resetting of Yahoo Mail accounts.
  • Modified legacy code to indicate the syncing algorithm used on a per-mail basis.

Software Engineer

Intel Corporation
07.2018 - 05.2019
  • Cross-functional collaboration to design and develop Bluetooth platform abstraction libraries for Windows, Chrome, and Linux using C#/.NET, SQL Server, Node.js, and AngularJS.
  • Implemented auto-suggest functionality with Trie tree data structure, later transitioning to ElasticSearch.
  • Significantly improved codebase by reducing existing bugs by 60%.

Education

Master of Science (M.S.) - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
12.2020

Skills

  • Java
  • Python
  • Kotlin
  • C#
  • JavaScript
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS - (SQS, SNS, DyanmoDB, AuroraDB, ElasticCache)
  • Spring Boot
  • Git

Internships

SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN 05/2020 to 08/2020

MathWorks, Natick, MA

  • Conducted performance estimation for all potential workflows in the MATLAB Answers Web App, meticulously comparing response times against SLA.
  • Merged and enhanced existing microservices to optimize billing service metering for the ThingSpeak IoT Web Application.
  • Utilized technologies including Java, Python, Scala, AWS SQS, MariaDB, Gatling, Docker, and TeamCity.


TEACHING ASSISTANT 08/2019 to 12/2019

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Served as a Teaching Assistant for the course "Designing for the Internet of Things (49313)."
  • Conducted office hours, assessed assignments and quizzes, and offered virtual support to students via the Piazza Platform.


SOFTWARE ENGINEER INTERN 01/2018 – 06/2018

Intel Corporation, Bangalore, India

  • Implemented an auto-suggest feature for Intel's compatibility guide, initially utilizing the Trie tree data structure and subsequently transitioning to ElasticSearch.


SUMMER INTERN 05/2017 to 08/2017

Signzy Technologies, Bangalore, India

  • Designed and implemented major components of a SaaS web application that connects lawyers and law firms with businesses and individuals, using AngularJS, Node.JS, MongoDB and Python.


DATA SCIENCE INTERN 05/2016 to 08/2016

Pattern Effects Lab, Bangalore, India

  • Performed Stock Market Analysis on NIFTY and built prediction models using TensorFlow and Decision Tree classifiers.
  • Prime focus was on predicting the intra – day and next – day prediction models.

Projects

Unintended Memorization in Generative Models | Privacy - CMU (Fall 20), 

Generative Models like text generation can memorize sensitive data from users. This project provides a robust framework to measure the extent of such memorization and the privacy implications of this unintended memorization.

Awards Scholarships

  • Yahoo! Rising Stars (2021)
  • Prof. MRD Merit Scholarship for being among the top five performers at PESIT (2018)
  • Winner Intel India Innovation Day Hackathon (2018)
  • 45th rank ACM-ICPC India regionals (2017)

Timeline

Software Development Engineer 2

Expedia
09.2022 - Current

Software Development Engineer

Yahoo! Inc.
08.2021 - 09.2022

Software Engineer

Intel Corporation
07.2018 - 05.2019

Master of Science (M.S.) - Electrical and Computer Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University

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