I am a software engineer focused on distributed systems, data platforms, and machine learning infrastructure. I enjoy tackling problems where correctness and runtime performance matter most: eliminating multithreaded race conditions, resolving execution graph edge cases, and building high-throughput data pipelines that remain reliable under heavy loads.
- 🎓 M.S. Computer Science @ Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ — GPA 3.71 / 4.0 · Digital Degree)
- ☁️ AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (Verify on Credly)
- ⚙️ Systems & Distributed Computing: Concurrency safety, race-condition elimination, execution graph optimization, and low-latency communication runtimes.
- 🌊 Data Engineering & Lakehouses: Production-grade Medallion architecture (Snowflake + dbt Core + S3), incremental loading, SCD Type 2 snapshots, and streaming pipelines (Kafka + Spark).
- 🔬 Upstream Open-Source Engineering: Actively resolving runtime edge cases and bugs across foundational repositories including Google Protocol Buffers, Microsoft DeepSpeed, ONNX, and PyTorch Vision.
- 🌐 Portfolio & Architecture Write-ups → ankitdhandharia.com
Real-time snapshot of public pull requests and upstream engineering contributions across external ecosystems, auto-updated via GitHub Actions:
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ONNX Reference Runtime
★ 21.6k·Handled legacy Resize inputs in reference implementation and preserved exact nearest-neighbor sub-pixel coordinate roundings across opset 10/11 transitions.
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Microsoft DeepSpeed
★ 43.2k·Fixed AutoSP test suite expecting LLM decoder attention layers to be auto-wrapped with
DistributedAttention, aligning tests with the intentional sequence parallelism operator architecture. -
PyTorch Vision
★ 18.0k·Guarded reference
evaluate()sample-count checks against uninitialized default process groups when benchmarks run in standalone non-distributed mode. -
DMLC XGBoost
★ 28.9k·Added strict Python type annotations to config and tree regularization test suites and enabled mypy CI verification.
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Unit8 Darts
★ 9.6k·Merged: Resolved multithreaded race condition where
ModelMeta.__call__stored creation arguments in class-level attributes, preventing collisions during parallel Optuna sweeps (n_jobs>1). Also documentedwindowparameter inCauchyNLLScorer. -
Meta BoTorch
★ 3.6k·Introduced pluggable
cat_kernel_factoryinMixedSingleTaskGPto support domain-specific categorical kernels alongside continuous dimensions. -
AWS GluonTS
★ 5.2k·Prevented unintended CUDA context initialization by enforcing CPU predictor placement when training with
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CausalEstimate ·
& tsauditor ·
Merged: Fixed unaligned DataFrame index in
Matching._compute_effectthat caused silent NaN calculations; added single-row anomaly edge-case test suites.
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Google Protocol Buffers
★ 72.1k·Included duplicate collision key in C#
MapField.Addexception message to accelerate debugging in downstream cloud logging services. -
AWS SageMaker Python SDK
★ 2.3k·Fixed Local Container mode failure when an S3 input channel points to an individual file object instead of a prefix directory.
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MonitorControl
★ 34.5k·Documented troubleshooting resolutions for macOS dim screen capture conflicts and slider brightness jumps.
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End-to-end cloud data warehouse implementing the Bronze → Silver → Gold architecture on an Airbnb dataset.
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Distributed event ingestion and normalization platform integrating 8+ external sources (Luma, Meetup, Ticketmaster, Pretalx, Devpost, Kaggle).
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Multi-tier LLM gateway with deterministic model dispatch (GPT-4o-mini & DeepSeek-V3.2) and token budgeting.
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Modular Retrieval-Augmented Generation system with dense embeddings and persistent vector indexing.
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Languages & Systems
Data Engineering & Big Data
Cloud & DevOps
AI / ML & Frameworks
Databases & Backend
M.S. in Computer Science Hoboken, NJ · Sep 2024 – May 2026 GPA: 3.71 / 4.0 Distributed Systems · Machine Learning · Cloud Computing · Advanced Algorithms🎓 View Digital Degree (Parchment) » |
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