I'm Pushkar Ladhe

Software Engineer

26 years young, Software Engineer, Shutterbug and Soccer Addict.

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Hello, My Name is Pushkar.

Pushkar Ladhe, 27 years young, born and grew up in Pune, India. Highly motivated creative Software Engineer with experience in FinTech industry.

A Software Engineer with 2+ years of professional experience in robust RESTful APIs/Microservices development using Java, Guice, Beadledom, Spring, Hibernate and Rails. Proficient in building and designing microservices ecosystem for Big Data Ingestion to HDFS and Kafka. Also, having advanced knowledge in distributed computing using Hadoop Ecosystem.

Contact Details

  • Pushkar Ladhe
  • Kansas City, MO, USA
  • pushkar.n.ladhe@gmail.com
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My Projects

Geospatial Analysis of New York Yellow Cabs

  • Performing geospatial analysis on large spatial data stored in HDFS using Java, Scala and Apache Spark framework
  • Customized and used the GeoSpark library for spatial data fragmentation and distributed query processing
  • Analyzed different parameters like CPU time, memory utilization and individual node performance of Spark cluster
  • The system can retrieve geographical hotspots in a locality based on the data available in HDFS

Show Me: The Score Project

  • Worked as a Back-End API developer, to develop RESTful APIs to fetch graphs and relations for Show Me App from Neo4j
  • Designed and developed the utility that crawls research data from websites and automatically generates graph in Neo4j
  • Developed an algorithm that would score a paper based on its relevance to a specific field using the Google Scholar data
  • Implemented third party authorization using OAuth 2.0 and GitHub, that made the application more secure and robust

Pi: An Object Oriented Language

  • Developed a language with basic constructs like loops, conditional statements, arithmetic, and logical operations
  • Engineered an intermediate code generator that would make the language platform independent

Recycle Hub

  • The average American throws away approximately 185 pounds of plastic per year.
  • Toxic metals can destroy the biochemistry, behavior, reproduction, and growth in marine life.
  • Recycle Hub enables users to estimate the amount of recyclable waste.
  • They can also see how much they can earn by recycling the day to day household waste.

Secure file sharing using Attribute Based Encryption (ABE)

  • Developed a security mechanism to provide secure file sharing in cloud-based platforms using ABE
  • Automated authentication to users based on the attributes available with the system
  • Improves upon current Attribute Based Encryption systems by adding an extra authentication Layer

Visual Cryptography Tool

  • Developed an educational tool to demonstrate visual cryptographic techniques
  • Worked on Core Java, Java Swing and JUnits during the development of the cryptographic tool
  • Allows users to encrypt and decrypt images using multiple visual cryptographic techniques

My Strengths

80%
Creativity
95%
Reliable
90%
Comunication
80%
Leadership
100%
Team Player

My Resume

My Education
2010 - 2018

2016 - 2018

Masters Degree - Arizona State University GPA: 3.53

Master of Science, Software Engineering

Coursework: Cloud Computing, Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms, Software Enterprise: Inception and Elaboration, Distributed Database Systems, Languages and Programming Paradigms, Software Enterprise: Project and Process Management, Web Applications and Mobile Systems, Semantic Web

2010 - 2014

Bachelors Degree - University of Mumbai, India GPA: 3.75

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

Coursework: Advanced Data Structures, Analysis & Design of Algorithms, Distributed Data Systems, Cloud Computing & Big Data (Hadoop – MapReduce), Database Management Systems, Data Mining, Software Security, Theory of Computer Science, Discrete Structures and Graph Theory, Operating Systems

Work Experience
2013 - 2017

2018 - to Date

Software Engineer - Cerner Corporation, Kansas City, MO

Java, Rails, Microservices, HDFS, Hadoop, Crunch, Kafka, Guice, Beadledom, Spinnaker, Jenkins, DC/OS

  • Designing and building dockerized microservices that ingests heterogeneous data to Cerner’s datastore
  • Developing Open APIs to publicly allow secure access to data ingestion platform’s component microservices
  • Engineered data ingestion microservices that allowed ingestion of textual EMR data in Cerner’s HDFS storage
  • Developed integration and load tests that allow testing of the API end points and make sure they adhere to standards
  • Integrated the developed APIs with Spinnaker CI/CD pipelines for seamless continuous delivery
  • Built API clients in Java and Ruby that allow secure access to component microservices from other internal services
  • Performing periodic support/maintenance of legacy products while the consumers move to the newer implementations

2017 - 2017

Software Engineer Intern - Scale Arc Inc, Santa Clara, CA

JavaScript, Node, jQuery

  • Developed ScaleArc’s product download website that automated the ScaleArc download and installation.
  • Improved ScaleArc’s front end unit test coverage that allowed thorough developer testing of the product.
  • Provided RESTful APIs to access the data in the product download website, like links to products, release dates, etc.
  • Designed and delivered unit tested first version of the product download website.

2014 - 2016

Assistant Software Engineer - TCSL, India

Java, Spring, Hibernate, SQL Server

  • Developed an insider trade surveillance system that allowed the business to catch suspicious trading activities.
  • Spearheaded the development of a new surveillance model that improved the quality of suspicious trading alerts.
  • Created build and execution scripts that reduced the deployment time of application from 50 minutes to 10-15 minutes.
  • Mentored trainee associates in Java Programming and Data Structures.

2013 - 2014

Software Engineer Intern - Persistent Systems, India

Java, Java Swing, SQL

  • Implemented Image Encryption and Decryption tool to encrypt the images such that they alter the visual content.
  • Implemented a steganography feature which allows us to conceal text into images and extract back from the image.
  • Allows users to understand how the implemented visual cryptographic techniques are practically put to use.

References

Barclays Technology Centre, India

"It’s rare that you come across exceptional talent like Pushkar. He is bright, dynamic, proactive, hard-working and quick to pick up challenges in a fast paced, innovative environment. I am sure he will be an invaluable asset to any team."

Deoashish Dane
Assistant Vice President, BTCI

Tata Consultancy Services

"In my two years of managing Pushkar directly, he has always outperformed my expectations. He understood the business needs and delivered quality solutions to complex technical problems. Overall, Pushkar was one of the best employees I've ever had, and I know he would be an excellent addition to any company."

Jeevan Narkhede
Project Manager, TCS

Tata Consultancy Services

"Pushkar and I joined the team as RCGs. His convivial personality made him everyone's favourite in no time. He is a dedicated person who takes his work very seriously and gives his best to finish off the task well before deadines. He is a great team member and working with him was a pleasure. I wish him great success in life :)"

Rashmi Ojha
Master of Computer Science, TAMU

Arizona State University

"Pushkar is a gifted software developer. We have done a couple of projects together during our Masters at ASU and I can say that his problem solving skills are commendable. He is observant, resourceful and efficient. Not to forget his helpful nature. He is always there for anyone who needs him. We had a wonderful time together!"

Shirish Chavan
Software Engineer, Google

Skills & Expertise

95%

Java

90%

Spring

80%

JavaScript

80%

node.js

70%

Python

80%

HTML5 + CSS3

80%

MongoDB/Neo4j

90%

Ruby on Rails

60%

Spark

75%

Hadoop + Map-Reduce

65%

SQL

65%

Kafka

Platforms

Maven

8

JIRA

7.5

GIT

8.5

REST

9

Tomcat

7

Jenkins

7

Marathon, DC/OS

7.5

Docker

6

Microservices

9

IDE (Eclipse / IntelliJ / PyCharm)

9.5

Accolades

Cerner "You Rock" Award 2019

Peer recognition award received in Q1 2019 for outstanding work

Sunhacks 2018

Participated and developed a web application in 'Social Impact' category

TCS Best Young Coder Award 2016

Awarded for excellent performance as a fresher in financial quarter Q4 2015-16

TCS On The Spot Award 2015

Awarded for outstanding efforts in process improvement in financial quarter Q3 2015-16

Distinguihed Honors Student 2014

University of Mumbai

Research paper 'Motion and Time based CAPTCHAs' 2013

Presented a paper on merits and demerits of motion and time based CAPTCHAs at an IEEE conference

Milestones Achieved

10 K+

Lines of Code

10

Courses Studied

6

Projects

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