Aafreen Sheikh
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Lab126
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Lab126
I am passionate about technology in general and software engineering in particular. With the wide set of skills that one acquires as a software engineer, to me, it is almost an art, an expression of creativity: Building something meaningful and useful out of abstract requirements.

I strive to learn and grow through every experience in life. I enjoy my work the most when I believe that my contribution has a significant impact and when I am learning new skills or strengthening existing skills along the way.

Currently, I am working with the Alexa Experience team in Sunnyvale to make interactions with Alexa more human-like.
Amazon Lab126
https://www.linkedin.com/company/lab126
I am working with the Alexa Experiences and Devices Engineering team to improve customer experience with Alexa. We develop features on multimodal devices that a) keep Alexa customers engaged and b) allow them to discover features they haven't tried yet.
Sunnyvale, California
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Software Development Engineer II
Amazon
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I worked for the vendor selection team at Amazon which develops algorithms to pick the most cost-effective and trustworthy vendors for a given item and places orders to them, in a completely automated fashion. I designed and wrote code for services that enable such operations.
Seattle
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Software Development Engineer
University of California, San Diego
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ucsandiego
Teaching assistant for Online Analytics Applications (CSE135).
La Jolla
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
University of California, San Diego
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ucsandiego
Assisting undergraduate students for an introductory course on databases (CSE132A).
Duties include:
Clarifying doubts and queries on Piazza
Grading homework
Conducting discussion sessions
Holding office hours
La Jolla
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Graduate Teaching Assistant
Annai Systems
https://www.linkedin.com/company/annai-systems
Evaluated leading databases for a genomics project
Carlsbad, San Diego
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Software engineering intern
Persistent Systems
https://www.linkedin.com/company/persistent-systems
* Worked on a gamification project, targeted at employee engagement and contributed in terms of ideas apart from serving on the back-end design and maintenance team. 
* Used SQL Server as well as evangelized MongoDB for our data intensive projects.
Pune Area, India
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Software Engineer
Master's Degree
Computer Science
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University of California, San Diego
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Bachelor of Engineering (BE)
Computer Science and Engineering
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Vishwakarma Institute Of Technology
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Advanced Software Engineering
CSE210
Algorithm Design and Analysis
CSE202
Computer Vision - I
CSE252A
Database System Application (Project)
CSE132B
Enterprise Dynamics
ENG202
Gospel Choir
MUS95G
Introduction to Cognitive Science
COGS1
Masters Project in CSE
CSE293
Online Analytics Applications
CSE135
Operating Systems
CSE221
Principles of Artificial Intelligence: Probabilistic reasoning and learning - I
CSE250A
Principles of Computer Architecure
CSE240A
Principles of Database Systems
CSE232
Teaching Methods in Computer Science
CSE599
Venture Mechanics
ENG201
Developed a spatially aware vendor matching service called iNeed in collaboration with all the other students taking the Advanced Software Engineering class. The service matches vendors within specified proximity of a customer and recommends deals. Served in the tech lead/developer roles for one of the modules that managed the enrollment, single-sign on and profile/preferences of customers.
iNeed: A context aware vendor discovery service
Evaluated Android OS v2.3.6 (Froyo) for performance by designing hardware and network measurements.
Evaluation of Android OS
Wrote a simulator in Java for MIPSR10K as a part of the Computer Architecture(CSE240A) class. One feeds a trace file of instructions to the code and it simulates the out-of-order superscalar R10K processor to display the resulting pipeline diagram.
MIPSR10K Simulator
https://github.com/AafreenUCSD/MIPSR10KSimulator
Participated in HackTech, Santa Monica (24th Jan'14). Worked on log analytics using SolR indexing and machine learning to predict the cause of errors.
Hacktech Santa Monica
Integrated a RESTful webservice with Neo4j graph database and created a Swing GUI to manipulate nodes and relationships in the graph.
Worked on Neo4J graph database during Intuit Hackathon at UCSD
eMee is a gamified engagement platform deployed at Persistent Systems, facilitating social networking within employees, encouraging timely feedback/appraisal and essentially keeping them motivated to work. I have worked in its database design and maintenance team. I have also explored gamification in general and contributed ideas for the development of eMee and sister projects.
eMee (Employee Engagement through gamification)
http://www.emee.co.in/
-Promotional vidoes for eMee using Xtranormal software.
-A series of cartoon movies on Software Configuration Management for induction.
-A movie emphasizing the significance of Continuous Performance Appraisal.
Xtranormal videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKsmmm04WD0&feature=plcp
Referring to the official MongoDB documentation on C# driver, I implemented a blog in ASP.NET MVC2 with features such as user profiles, adding/editing blog-posts, tags on posts, liking, first-level of comments, uploading images into GridFS, and a mapreduce job to find the most popular tags across all the profiles. Check out my StackOverflow profile: http://stackoverflow.com/users/1465952/aafreen-sheikh
Simple blog using MongoDB and ASP.NET MVC2
Final year thesis on natural language processing: automatic text summarization software to create logical and brief summary of a text file fed to it. The summarization process employed is “extractive”, i.e., the summary will have original sentences “picked” from the passage, according to a complex statistical analysis based on word semantic similarity retrieved from WordNet® (http://wordnet.princeton.edu/).
K-means clustering is then used for generating clusters of sentences conveying “similar” ideas and a “representative” sentence from each cluster gives a collection of “k” sentences that comprise the summary.
Automatic text summarization with Porter's algorithm and K-means clustering
Education
Atmabodh
Social worker with the NGO Atmabodh (Hindi for ‘Self-revelation’), VIT, Pune (2008-2010) - Devised course material and taught underprivileged children in Pune, India for a computer literacy program
Social Worker
Duolingo
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Duolingo German Fluency: Intermediate (40%)
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        Aafreen is one of the very few people, whom I know of, who keep the goals of the team/company before personal goals. She is a team-player and also a great teacher. Her problem solving skills and fast learning capability make her a better engineer and is an asset for any company. As a colleague, I interacted with her a lot, and got to learn a lot about real-world scenarios of implementing MongoDB in some of the most demanding projects. She is a great girl, with the zeal of doing things the best way possible in the least amount of time. I would happily recommend her for any of her future endeavors and wish her luck for them. Siddhesh Bhobe
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aafreen is extremely committed to her work, and can be trusted on for any investigations and technology initiatives. Her strong investigative nature and perseverance guarantees results. Been very impressed with her on every project she has been involved in.
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Pune
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Indore
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Gurugram
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SEO Content Writer | Content Editor | Copywriter
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Bengaluru
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Backend Engineer
MongoDB University for Database Administrators
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Database Developers and Architects Group
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Persistent Systems Ltd (PSL)
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VoltDB
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Persistent Alumni
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NoSQL Document Databases
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MongoDB
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Extremely Large Databases (XLDB)
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NewSQL
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NoSQL
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