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Samesh Lakhotia

Avid open-source developer. I love to build software which solves real-world problems. Good at picking up skills and new tech stacks quickly. Love to ship products!

Love to work on anything backend, from writing APIs in GraphQL to deploying to production servers to automating with Kubernetes to creating Smart Contracts

Prev exp: **Microsoft Research, Oracle, GSoC 2020
**
Skills: Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Solidity, Flask, REST APIs, GraphQL, Algorithms, Docker, SQL Databases, Git, Applied ML.

Currently working @ Footium(A web3 NFT startup) as a founding web3/backend engineer.

Projects

MentorMe

Personalised Learning tool for new skillsReact, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB Atlas

Journal3 - Live on-chain Resume

Allowing data scientists and devs to create on-chain credentials from their validated work on Kaggle, Google Colab, Github, and Research PublicationsSolidity, React, JavaScript, The Graph

Skills

Python
Solidity
TypeScript
Smart Contracts
Backend

Experience

  • Microsoft Research - Research Intern
    August 2021 - March 2022
    • Improved workload latency numbers on the DeathStarBench benchmark using various Machine Learning techniques by 20%.
    • Experimented on improving the Auto-Scaling algorithm in Kubernetes by assisting it with Machine Learning techniques to better utilize CPU & Memory resources.
  • Oracle - Software Engineer Intern
    June 2021 - July 2021
    • Added support for Oracle Coherence cache into a custom caching wrapper software in Java.
    • Work involved complete product lifecycle starting from research to ending with writing unit tests.
  • Google Summer of Code 2020, HydraEcosytem.org - Student Developer
    May 2020 - August 2020
    • Improved REST server for Semantic Web called hydrus [Code Summary] [Overview]
    • Added major features which included database architecture optimization for storing the RDF triplets to improve performance
      multi-fold.
    • Researched and implemented the proposed features from the Hydra specification.
    • Refactored the whole codebase alongwith adding unit tests and documentation.
  • Footium - Backend Developer
    April 2022 - Present
    • Footium is a play-to-win web3 NFT football management game.
    • Work on smart contracts and backend.
    • Refactor most of the core engine codebase including unit tests while integrating new features.
    • Skills: TypeScript, Solidity, GraphQL, Prisma, Functional Programming