Nripesh Pokala

Experience

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  ADP

  Jun 2018 - Sept 2018

  Software Engineer Intern

  Watch Tower API: • Contributed to the development of a REST API using Flask, Django, and MongoDB that records and posts the expenses and usage attributes of various AWS used by the networking and automation teams of 60 to 80 members on demand.

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  University of Utah

  Jan 2021 - Jan 2023

  Computer Science Teaching Assistant

  • Guided, graded and code reviewed a cohort of 102 students for the course Masters in software development on topics of C++, Software Development Lifecycle, Java, and JavaScript.

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  Recursion

  May 2022 - Aug 2022

  Software Engineer Intern

  Caching Input-Parameters:• Designed and developed a caching mechanism using Python and Clojure for Recursion’s homegrown library called the Analysis Runner, a harness for running 100s AI-aided analytical computations. Project Parrot: • Modelled a cronjob in python that polls OpsGenie for updates to the on-call schedule with the help of OpsGenie API.• The cronjob enabled the automated revision of slack team handles and default spoke ticket recipients, improving the response rate for tickets across the engineering teams at Recursion.• Built a slack bot with Slackbolt that makes appropriate API calls to alert users on the updates of their on-call status. Show less

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  Care.Life

  Jan 2023 - Sept 2023

  Software Engineer

  The Care.Life app:• Coded Twilio API integration into the Care.Life app using Java and facilitated alert generation for hazards like falls, bad air quality, etc via calls and texts, the system alerted the caretakers of elderly adults and helped in preventing 4 fatalities.• Improved the response rate of caretakers to an average 1 minute in the assisted living communities.• Created a unit testing module in java to run functional tests, resulting in a 40% time saving on post-prod validations.Sleep Summary Generator:• Developed a feature using a finetuned DaVinci language model and Python that generates a human-readable sleep summary by processing sleep data, informing 10 families about the irregular breathing/heart rate of their loved ones. Show less

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  Zions Bancorporation

  Dec 2023 - now

  Data Engineer II