Hi all, I'm Sameer
Transforming ideas into impactful technology solutions is my passion. With expertise in full-stack development, I excel at analyzing complex problems and crafting effective, scalable solutions using the most suitable technologies
Experience
Varsity Tutors
Software Engineer II
March 2023 – March 2024
- Developed International Tutor Onboarding System: Leveraged Ruby on Rails and React, automating tax compliance and expanding tutor pool, increasing monthly revenue by ~$75,000.
- Led development of in-house DORA metrics using Python and the New Relic & GitHub APIs, enhancing PR efficiency and repository performance.
- Enhanced Ruby on Rails application by improving tutor matching algorithms and optimizing endpoint, reducing latency by 40%.
- Implemented Kafka for event-driven communication in Ruby on Rails and Golang, improving tutor management efficiency.
Varsity Tutors
Software Engineer I
July 2021 – February 2023
- Migrated CI/CD pipelines to GitHub Actions, reducing deployment times by 50%-70% and enabling rapid AWS service integration.
- Developed a limited access SMS feature in the browser with Ruby on Rails, contributing to yearly savings of $3-4 million.
- Contributed to an 18% increase in sales conversion rates by developing a new calling assistant with React and TypeScript.
Tradable Bits
Software Engineer Intern
January 2021 – March 2021
- Developed configurable advertising campaigns and customizable email flows with HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Flask, and Postgres.
- Added ads analytics features and dashboards to evaluate CRM data, enhancing data-driven decision-making.
Benevity
Software Development Intern
May 2020 – August 2020
- Created a recommender system using Amazon Sagemaker API and Vue.js, validating a new service concept.
- Diagnosed a server crash and led the implementation of the resolution, reducing server crashes by adding API validation wrappers in Postman with JavaScript.
Change.org
Software Engineer Intern
January 2019 – August 2019
- Developed UI components in React and Rendr/Backbone, enhancing user success team’s operational tools.
- Upgraded spam detection pipeline using NLP techniques in Java on AWS Lambda, increasing classification accuracy by 13%.