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General Information

Full Name Suraj Mirpuri
Date of Birth 7th December 1992
Languages English, Spanish

Education

  • 2021
    MS in CS AI/ML Specialty
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • 2015
    BS in Chemistry
    California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

Engineering Experience

  • 2023 - Present
    Senior Fullstack Developer
    Alphaeon Credit
    • Rapidly built admin tooling to allow self service of ~75% of customer service requests
    • Helped lead discussions on ideal project management processes
  • 2022 - 2023
    Senior Fullstack Engineer
    Ghost Group Management LLC
    • Increased email send rate and limit by 50% after full application scaling analysis
    • Drafted and led architecture revision on caching layers, decreasing p99 latency sitewide significantly
  • 2021 - 2022
    Tech Lead
    NinjaHoldings
    • Managed 5 full time developers cross functionally, and 5 interns across remote time zones
    • Top contributor organization wide; 100k LOC removed from codebase during huge overhaul of core business services
  • 2020 - 2021
    Software Engineer
    NinjaHoldings
    • Wrote and redesigned a marketing leads platform with Python and Flask, maintained and extended React frontend
    • Reduced loan cost per lead significantly by making hard coded services configurable for stakeholders

Educational Experience

  • 2016 - 2020
    Teacher
    Mater Lakes Academy
    • Taught Java, Python, JS, and a variety of other tools and techniques to ~150 students per year, middle school and high school
    • Coached high school robotics program which reached state level in the first year, made lasting impact and relationships with my mentees

Handiwork

  • 2015 - 2016
    Certified Commercial Pool Operator
    Palms Pools LLC
    • Tested, cleaned, and maintained a route of 55 pools per week including 2 commerical systems
    • Used Djikstra's algorithm to optimize fleet driving routes leading to huge gas savings and time back to every employee
  • 2013 - 2014
    Research Machinist
    California Institute of Technology, Hoffman Group
    • Operated drill presses, lathes, mills, laser cutters, and a variety of tools to build safer lithium batteries
    • Used Solid State NMR facilities to analyze battery crystal structures in situ in their cells

Hifalutin Academic Hijinks

  • 2014 - 2015
    Research Assistant
    California Institute of Technology, Weitekamp Group
    • Wrote spin transport simulations in C++ to test new NMR pulse sequences
    • Resulting code was 45% faster per spin, making feasible several prior impossible test cases
  • 2011 - 2013
    Research Assistant
    California Institute of Technology, Roberts Group
    • Created RSpin, a program to determine the 3D structure of molecules from NMR dipolar couplings in solution
    • Wrote the above computations and a slick PyQT native UI for user friendliness, all open source
    • In my second year with the group I developed an equation to estimate conformer populations from dihedral couplings

Honors and Awards

  • 2013
    • 38th Annual ASCIT Teaching Award
  • 2017
    • Mater Lakes Rookie of the Year Award
  • 2020
    • CreditNinja 5 star employee review, only employee to receive this org wide

Proficiencies

  • Proficient Languages: C / C++, Java, Python, Ruby
  • Semi-Proficient Languages: Typescript, Javascript
  • Frameworks I know: Rails, Flask, Django, React
  • Other: Linux, Bash, AWS, Git, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Skills: System design, leadership and management, observability practices