Ronit Jorvekar

Experience

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  Espressif Systems

  Aug 2018 - Apr 2019

  Project Intern

  • Built a mock memory allocator from scratch for Espressif chips in C.• Developed a voice-controlled robot named Bucky with Google-DialogFlow on the Espressif chip (ESP32-DevKitC).

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  Google Summer of Code

  May 2019 - Aug 2019

  Student Software Developer

  • Constructed 5+ Graph Neural Network (GNN) models and supporting codebase as a GSoC Student, achieved Mean Square Error (MSE) of 0.03173 compared to human level performance of 0.022 MSE.• Implemented a stochastic hyper-parameter tuning REST service, reduced training time by 4 fold.• Designed a SNGNN (Social Navigation GNN) API to evaluate a social scenario, provides foundation for social navigation research at Robocomp.

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  CDAC

  Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  Project Intern

  • Devised an integrated Flask based streaming web service for scalable Face Detection, Face Recognition, and Tracking on IP camera.• Engineered a solution based on KNN model to detect unknown faces.

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  Google Summer of Code

  May 2020 - Sept 2020

  Google summer of Code Mentor

  • Co-mentored a GSoC student to produce a dataset generation toolkit and publish 1 research paper at WAF2020.

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  SE2 India

  Oct 2020 - Jul 2021

  Associate Software Engineer

  • Constructed a Web UI to interact with ActiveMQ to send, consume, and purge queue messages with zero server startup time as compared to previous workflow for Business Analysts.• Delivered a replay-retry mechanism for ActiveMQ message queues. Improved reliability with 0 loss of valid queue messages.• Created and maintained 10+ Operation Transform Process (OTP) APIs using MuleSoft for SE2 Aurum Technology.

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  Google Summer of Code

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Google Summer of Code Mentor

  • Co-mentored GSoC Student to integrate 4+ open-source simulator Webots components with Robocomp.

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  USC Institute for Creative Technologies

  Sept 2021 - May 2023

  Student AI Researcher

  - working on the DARPA ASIST Search and Rescue Minecraft Challenge Project under Dr. Volkan Ustun using Reinforcement Learning and Graph Machine Learning for Vehicle Routing Problem (Combinatorial Optimization) at the Cognitive Architecture Lab.- working on Dataset design for solving the tsp problem based on semantic MineCraft Map.- generating dataset and training and comparing various Graph transformer models on the datasets.

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  Coalition, Inc.

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Backend Software Engineering Intern

  Added Production underwriter association with the quotation to improve broker experience on middle market quotes.Designed and implemented SLOs for critical endpoints which drive revenue for business of Coalition.Configured Alerting system for SLOs to mitigate and recognise incidents as early as possible.Moved event publishing from database level to API level.Worked on creating SLIs for email service.

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  Coalition, Inc.

  Jun 2023 - now

  Taking Roadmaps from idea to production by executing and collaborating with stakeholders, product and other engineering teams. working on complex migrations while engineering features and delivering business value.Writing design docs for roadmap items.

  • Software Engineer

    Mar 2025 - now

  • Software Engineer 1

    Jun 2023 - Mar 2025