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Tulika Bhatt

Senior Software Engineer @ Netflix

San Jose, United States (-08:00 UTC) Englishfrom San Jose, United States
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Bio

With nearly a decade of experience spanning technology, finance, and entertainment, I specialize in leveraging data to drive innovation and impact. Currently, at Netflix, I work on enhancing content recommendations for over 300 million subscribers, managing trillions of data points annually. Previously, I developed mission-critical financial applications at BlackRock. As a Columbia University Master’s graduate, I’ve had the privilege of speaking at multiple engineering conferences and writing at various tech blogs. Passionate about innovation and engineering, I am committed to pushing boundaries and helping others achieve excellence in the field.

Expertise

  • Data science

    I have experience developing data science applications, including customized Jupyter Notebooks and scheduled cron jobs. Additionally, I've built high-volume personalization datasets and services that power recommendation algorithms.

Toolkit

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    Java

    I have extensive experience with Java programming, dating back to my school years and continuing throughout my professional career. I've applied Java to diverse projects, including financial applications and high-volume services that support critical user-facing functionality.

Experience

  • Netflix

    Senior Software Engineer

    Senior Software Engineer, Product Data Systems Apr’22 – Ongoing * Responsible for the source of truth for all offline and online impressions at Netflix, overseeing data integrity, scalability, and accessibility. This involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to address diverse data needs and driving execution of all strategic initiatives to support personalized recommendations and enhance the user experience. * Reduced latency by 47% for online impressions by transitioning to a microservices model and adding a cache layer * Managing and overseeing data pipelines processing billions of data points daily to ensure seamless operation Senior Software Engineer, Personalization Data Engineering Apr’22 – Aug’24 * Investigated, compared and classified the impression data quality changed by migrating impression data sources from processing server logs to client-device event capture. This led to 13.9% increase in data quality * Developed an audit job along with dashboard and alerts that monitors server-side impression logs ensuring high data quality by catching regressions 24 hours earlier * Developed an endpoint that provides aggregated impressions counts spanning over different time windows including a year by utilizing a hybrid model of using batch and online computations together

  • BlackRock

    Technology Associate
    •blackrock.com

    ALADDIN CREDIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM • Designed a credit management, billing and accounting system based on the pay as you go model for the in-house data science platform and data warehousing solution • Developed the event framework that triggers the creation of orders for the credit management system • Integrated the underlying metrics infrastructure of Kubernetes workloads with the credit management system for calculating usage on the fly • Coordinated the successful release and delivery to new client of the credit management system by interfacing with multiple teams ALADDIN STUDIO COMPUTE • Enhanced employee productivity time by developing customized notebooks environments and scheduled jobs solutions • Formalized the strategy and run book for disaster recovery and failover of a data science platform and its workloads ALADDIN DATA FABRIC • Enhanced user experience by replacing several legacy applications serving multiple market data streams with a single, scalable, cloud-native based data access layer called Data Fabric • Supported all phases of SDLC including requirement gathering, design, system development, testing, implementation and production support for Data Fabric platform

    Financial servicesFinanceBanking

  • BlackRock

    Technology Analyst
    •blackrock.com

    • Collaborated with four different teams for a period of six months each through the APG rotational analyst program • Integrated measurements for ESG ratings into the Portfolio Construction application for easier and faster access • Designed the in-memory caching, data retrieval and messaging infrastructure for a notational weight calculator server • Developed a distributed real time cache management system for an internal server and decreased response time by 30% • Implemented metrics infrastructure to calculate dataset/vendor usage on distributed dataset platform for negotiating contracts

    Financial servicesFinanceBanking

  • BlackRock

    Summer Analyst
    •blackrock.com

    • Developed a dashboard showcasing all internal libraries and its dependencies for resolving circular dependencies • Identified bottlenecks in the enterprise build system by measuring performance and optimized it by 10% • Winner of BlackRock Interns Hackathon for developing an application that classifies unstructured prospectus data into federally taxable or tax exempt

    Financial servicesFinanceBanking

  • Verizon

    Software Engineer, Product Design and Development

    • Unified 4 platforms for Walled Garden Customers to ensure effort savings with increase in efficiency to produce high quality End User Experience • Developed responsive web application to release activated customers from the Walled Garden in modules - Registration, Activation and Provisioning • Maintained user navigation database containing static and dynamic user data to reduce Customer Representative’s AHT(Average call handling time) to provide Superior User Experience • Improved the self-service adaption of Verizon Customers by 3% in 2015 • Project Technology : Java, JavaScript, Spring and Hibernate

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