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Contact:

📅 calendly.com/prakharmittal

✉️ [email protected]

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Work Stuff

Experience

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September 2025 - Present

Global Payments

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June 2024 - September 2025

Built services and infrastructure to run online ad auctions in a privacy-preserving manner (Github).
Enabled advertisers to securely execute arbitrary binary code in public cloud servers, providing greater language flexibility and reducing latency & cost of real-time bidding by xx%.
Launched event-level debug reporting for both SSPs and DSPs in multi-seller auctions. Provided differential privacy via random downsampling.
Introduced privacy-adhering OTel metrics that provide insights into an adtech’s business logic (eg. bid stats, win rates, errors).
Led major refactor. Added functional & integration tests for critical paths. Run 100+ load tests to mitigate performance regressions and tune system params.

C++ / GCP / AWS / Docker / Terraform / gRPC / Protobuf / OpenTelemetry

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May 2023 - August 2023

Created a generic dataset reader for 5 proprietary file formats and 3 input sources with native column and shard filtering.
Programmed reader to query 25+ Google data centers worldwide and retrieve the closest located up-to-date replica.
Migrated YouTube Analytics data without backfills, slashing disk space usage by 80% (3 PB/day) and saving 10+ work hours/day.
Enabled existing data pipelines to be backward/forward compatible with format and privacy policy changes (eg. DMA, GDPR).

C++ / GCP DataFlow / BigQuery / Protobuf / gRPC / Bazel / Kubernetes

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May 2022 - August 2022

Architected an immersive gardening experience for AR smart glasses. Conducted UX study and designed Hi-Fi UI prototype.
Developed full-stack Android applications for both glasses and phone, synchronized via a shared offline database.
Leveraged computer vision models and internal APIs for salient object detection from images captured by the camera.
Implemented 5+ end-to-end critical user journeys for identifying plants, creating a watering schedule, setting reminders, and more.

Android / Java / SQL / Protobuf / Espresso / Dagger / Bazel

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May 2021 - August 2021

Joined the UC Berkeley startup as a founding engineer and built their web presence from the ground up.
Designed customizable and interactive web widgets for social organizations in the US and Nepal to quantify and showcase their impact.
Tracked and analyzed user-widget interactions to derive insights. Boosted clients’ donations and volunteer sign-ups by 20%.

React / JavaScript / PostgreSQL / PHP / REST API / CSS

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Georgia Tech

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January 2023 - December 2023

Created forward and inverse kinematics models for the limbs of Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid (28 joints) to throw footballs.
Fabricated custom PCBs for assembling in-house GelSight visuo-tactile sensors to be placed at the robot’s fingertips.
Inferred contact force, slip, and curl information by running a marker tracking algorithm on videos of the sensors’ elastomer surfaces deforming.

ROS / OpenCV / Python / C++ / Robot Arms / Pi / PCB Design

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August 2021 - December 2022

Wrote barcode scanning and inventory update software for a drone-based warehouse management solution for corporate clients such as Steelcase.
Built an Uber-like app for a drone delivery network to livestream camera feeds, battery data, and flight path information.

Android / Firebase / Kotlin / Python / Google Maps

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January 2022 - December 2022

Led weekly recitation sessions, Q&As, and office hours for CS 1331: Object-Oriented Programming for 500+ students.
Taught software design principles through app development projects. Wrote 15+ coding assignments and auto-graders.

Java / JavaFX / JUnit

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August 2020 - July 2021

Architected the perception stack for an autonomous racing car to identify road signs, traffic cones, stop lights, and lane marks in real-time.
Achieved 93.8% accuracy with template matching and semantic segmentation. Improved speed to 3.5x with multi-threading.
Represented Georgia Tech at the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition held at the University of Waterloo.

ROS / OpenCV / C++ / Gazebo

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Projects

AI

Trajectory Descriptor Fields

Proposed a novel application of neural descriptor fields for obtaining SE(3)-equivariant representations of object manipulation trajectories. Successfully learned and replicated demonstrations via energy function integration and trajectory loss optimization. [Read Paper]

PyTorch / NumPy / Plotly

English-German Language Translation

Implemented and trained RNN-Seq2Seq, LSTM-Seq2Seq, and Transformer-based models with multi-head self-attention. Improved existing architectures, performed hyperparameter tuning, and achieved final perplexity of 23.51 on the Multi30K dataset.

PyTorch / TorchText / Spacy / NumPy

Retinal Blood Vessel Segmentation

Optimized U-Net segmentation model to be ~35% more lightweight and heavily pre-processed to make up for it. Achieved an accuracy of 94.35% with a dice score of 0.87 on the DRIVE dataset.

PyTorch / OpenCV / Albumentations

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