About
Software Engineer
Passionate programmer who is keen on exploring opportunities.
- Degree: MSCS Georgia Tech 2024-2026
- City: Atlanta, United States
- Concentration:Systems + ML
- Email: rutujak@gatech.edu
I am a Master’s student in Computer Science at Georgia Tech and have three years of industy experience as a Software Development Engineer II at Rakuten Symphony. My interests span across software engineering, distributed systems, data science, and open source technologies. I am passionate about building scalable, secure systems that create real-world impact. Outside of work, I enjoy playing chess and hold an international FIDE rating. I am also a avid trekker and a half marathoner. I’m driven by a continuous desire to learn, contribute, and apply computing for the advancement of society.
My Domains of Interest
Computing Systems
Machine Learning
Software Development
Education
MS in Computer Science
2024 - 2026
Georgia Institute of Technology
GPA: 3.7/4
B.E. in Computer Engineering (Hons. in Data Science)
2018 - 2022
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
GPA: 9.3/10
Publications
“Virtualization in Cloud: A shift from Hypervisor to Containerization” – IJCSP
“Credit Card Fraud Detection Through Anomaly Detection” – Emerging Tech Foundation
Achievements
- Top 300 globally, Microsoft-Udacity Azure Nanodegree (15K+ applicants)
- Selected for ODSC 2024 (2% acceptance rate)
- Top 1% in Facebook Developers Circle Immersion Program
- Silver-level Technical Scripter at GeeksforGeeks
Professional Experience
Software Engineer II
Rakuten Symphony, 2022–2025
- Built Rakuten Cloud, a scalable Kubernetes-native platform with Helm support, scheduler enhancements, and container resource optimization.
- Introduced async job processing and audit logging, improving cluster size support by 200% and system observability.
- Tech stack: Kubernetes, Docker, CRI, Go, Python, REST APIs, Postgres, Helm.
Project Contributor – Microsoft Engage
2021
Developed a classroom platform (Kaksha) for remote learning. [Link]
Software Development Intern
Avaya, 2021
Worked on CMS report automation and secure backend systems.
Technical Content Writer
GeeksforGeeks, 2020
Published 25+ articles on DS, Python, and algorithms. [Articles]
Projects
Event-Driven E-Commerce Platform – Built with FastAPI, Django, C#, Azure, and pub-sub model.
Stock Market Prediction – NLP + LSTM-based model predicting trends from financial news.
AutoCertify – Bulk certificate generator using Python, SMTP, and Excel automation.
Omdena iRAP Project – CV-based road safety analysis with YOLOv3 and panoramic data. Promoted to Lead ML Engineer.
Projects
My Projects
Automatic Certificate Generator
A python project which reads the excel sheet and forms the certificate from given template and then sends it to the participants via Email from the corresponding column in excel sheet.
Credenz Tech Dayz Official Website 2020
Credenz Tech Dayz Official Website 2020, developed using HTML 5, CSS 3, bootstrap 4, Javascript, & JQuery Link to the official website is http://ctd.pictieee.in/
Universty Admission Prediction
Universty Admission Prediction using Machine Learning, it predicts a certain student with particlar GRE, TOFFEL, GPA etc gets the admission in an university of a given rating or not.
COVID 19 Analysis
Project on Exploratory Data Analysis of COVID 19 in India, China, Spain, USA and Italy. Project shows further predictions, visualizations, Rate of infections, highest peak, lowest peak, etc of COVID 19 in the above mentioned countries.
Social Distancing Detector
Project based on OpenCV, Computer Vision for detecting Social Distancing during a pandemic.
Hand-writtern Digit Recognition
Used CNN in keras for hand writtern recognition system. Trained model using algorithms like neural network, tensorflow at backend, keras for models and layers, and numpy module. Implemented regularization to avoid overfitting.
Portfolio
My Acheivements
Here are few certifications and acheivements out of many others in the list!
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- Certificates
- Publications
- Awards
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Contact
Contact Me
My Address
Dhankawadi, Pune, India
Social Media Profiles
Email Me
rutujakawade24@gmail.com
Call Me
+91 9112078781