Arjun Krishna

San Francisco, California, USA · arjun-remove-krishna.office@gmail.com

Rich 5+ years of software work experience with domain expertise in machine learning, cloud infrastructure systems for machine learning, system design, algorithm design, distributed cloud computing, storage scalability. Demonstrated experience in technical leadership, establishing technical standards and best practices.

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Skills

Programming Languages
  • Python
  • C++
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • C
  • Objective C
  • MATLAB
  • Ruby
Frameworks
Databases
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • DynamoDB
  • MongoDb
  • Apache RDD
  • Indexed DB
Developer tools and consoles
  • VSCode
  • IntelliJ
  • Git
  • Perforce
  • VisualStudio
  • Android
  • XCode
  • PyCharm
  • NGINX
  • AWS
  • Linux
  • Apple
  • Windows
Domain Knowledge
  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data Analysis
  • AWS (NAWS) Cloud Development
  • Cloud Deployment Infrastructure
  • Test Automation Infrastructure
  • Database Internals
  • Data Analysis
  • Storage Scalability
  • System Design
  • Computer Vision
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Image Processing
  • Color Management
  • Web Development
  • Android Development

Creations

A collection of projects authored by Arjun, and likely shared out with the community as an open source project.

Express flowcharts android app

This app focuses on quickly creating colorful flowcharts , UMLs, and mindmaps.

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Express Wiki

Express Wiki gives you a personal online wikipidea powered by AI so you can read and organize your wikipidea.

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Google chrome extension to caption images using RCNN

Google​ ​Chrome​ ​Extension​ ​that generates​ ​a​ ​caption​ ​for​ ​an​ ​image​ using deep learning network RCNN

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Open Source Contributions

A collection of efforts to which I contributed, but did not create. Contributing back to Open Source projects is a strong passion of mine, and requires a considerate approach to learn norms, standards and approach for each community for a successful merge!

Cyclical Learning Rate (CLR)

Worked and experimented with CLR algorithm which is implemented in Keras that uses cyclical learning rates to train deep neural networks.

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Text detection in natural scenes

Build upon existing model to improve the accuracy of text localization

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Achievements

AWS Aurora hackathon

Amazon Web Services

Won Aurora hackathon 2021 for developing novel prefetch algorithm for data read ahead for Aurora MySQL 8.0 engine.

2021

Kudos award Adobe

Adobe Systems

Won prestigious kudos award 2020 for my contributions at CoreTech Adobe among team of 100+ builders.

2019

Winner of Adobe shark tank

Adobe Systems

Winner Adobe shark tank event for best product idea pitch amongst 100+ new hires.

2019

Best B.Tech. project award

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Best B.Tech. Project Award received from director IIT Roorkee amongst 1816 students.

2019

KVPY national scholarship fellow

Indian Institute of Science

Secured All India Rank of 401 among ~1,50,000 participants for Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana

2015

District topper of All India Senior School Certificate Examination 2015

Indian Institute of Science

All India Senior School Certificate Examination 2015 certificate received from education minister India.

2015

Cleared First Stage of CODEFUNDO

Microsoft

2015

Cleared First Level of International Chemistry Olympiad

Indian Association of Physics Teachers

2014

Publications

Thesis - Video segment copy detection

This work tackles the problem of video forgery detection wherein given a full-length video we have to retrieve those videos which are trimmed versions of the original video and vice versa. The method would also withstand other alterations like the change of speed of a video, change of frame rate which are temporal in nature and spatial alterations like signal and image processing attacks.

June 2018

Experience

Software Development Engineer

Amazon Web Services Pvt. Ltd.

I work on SageMaker Distributed Model Parallel library, which makes large scale deep learning training easier and performant.

Dec 2021 – Present

Software Development Engineer 2

Amazon Web Services Pvt. Ltd.

Built entire control plane and data plane stack of AWS Aurora ML Zero ETL infrastructure by leading 5-person team .My primary focus in this team revolves around building the distributed Native AWS cloud service used for the and ecosystem infrastructure of AWS Aurora MySQL.

Dec 2021 – Present

Software Development Engineer 2

Amazon Web Services India Pvt. Ltd.

Worked on the fault tolerance aspects of AWS Aurora MySQL which is a fully managed cloud native SQL database service . My primary contributions revolved around Defunct segment handling, Dead latch diagnostics, Page diagnostics, Out of memory avoidance and Fault injection features for Aurora MySQL 8.0 engine.

Aug 2020 – Dec 2021

Software Development Engineer 1

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

Developed Genshop which is Adobe's in-house deep learning python library for Generative models primarily GANs. Worked on CPU (single and multithreaded) and GPU workflows of Adobe Color Engine (ACE) and Adobe Font Engine(CoolType).

Jun 2019 – Aug 2020

Research Intern

Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd.

Interned with Big Data Experience Lab, Adobe Research, Bengaluru on the project personalized highlighting based on reader feedback.

May 2018 - July 2018

Research Assistant

IIT Roorkee

Worked on Action Recognition with feature fusion which involved combining traditional computer vision techniques with deep learning to improve the accuracy of Action Recognition.

Dec 2017 – Jan 2018

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Bachelor of Technology
Electronics and Communication and minor in Computer Science
93.86%
2015 - 2019

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

All India Senior School Certificate Examination
Bio-Maths
97%
2013 - 2015

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

All India Secondary School Examination
100%
2012 - 2013
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