Pulkit Sinha
Software Engineer
About Me
I'm a passionate software engineer with hands-on expertise in building scalable and performant systems. I've worked in a variety of domains - Full-Stack Websites, Search/Ads Serving, High-Throughput Data Pipelines and Quantitative Research Systems.
When I'm not coding for work or for pleasure, you'll find me playing video games, reading books, watching movies, occasionally running and swimming. My last big run was the Golden Gate Half-Marathon and I love to travel.
Projects
US Green Card Tracker
An auto-updating website showing historical and current priority dates for all categories of US Green Card applications.
dotfiles / shellutils
A collection of useful utility functions and configuration settings for tools in my day-to-day work.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
2021 - Dec 2024- Full-stack engineer in Local Search Ads - responsible for the development and launch of multiple location focused Ad Formats, including those featuring video assets.
- Worked with Core Python team to automate clean up of Python code in Google's monorepo.
- Previously, part of the Cluster Planning Team, responsible for software managing server installation inside Google's DataCenters.
- Tech Lead for the WebSim project.
- Created an expression-based language for authoring trading models, including modern features such as type inference, unit conversion, structs and higher-order functions.
- Set up Nix based dependency tracking and build system, and CMake/Python based SDK for internal users of research system.
- Set up Kubernetes/Docker based CI/CD system for internal projects.
- Previously, worked as Quantitative Researcher developing trading algorithms for global equity and futures markets.
Education
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CASelected courses in Computer Graphics and Machine Learning
2022 - 2023Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
Mumbai, IndiaBachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
2006 - 2010