Here's the resume of Soham Parekh, the techie accused of working for American startups at the same time
Soham Parekh
has landed in hot water in Silicon Valley after being accused of secretly holding multiple jobs at the same time. The allegations of moonlighting were made public by
Suhail Doshi
, co-founder and former CEO of analytics firm
Mixpanel
. In a post on microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter), Doshi claimed that Parekh misled at least three to four early-stage startups, some of which were founded by prominent startup accelerator Y Combincator. He also shared Parekh's resume, calling it mostly fake and claiming that "probably 90%" of the details in it weren't true. The incident has triggered a wider conversation about ethics and transparency in the tech startup ecosystem.
Here's the full resume of Soham Parekh as shared by Suhail Doshi
SOHAM P.
EDUCATION
Georgia Institute of Technology Sept 2020 - May 2022
M.S. Computer Science
Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Advanced Operating Systems, Distributed Computing, Computer Networks
University of Mumbai Aug 2016 - May 2020
B.E. Computer Engineering Overall GPA: 9.83/10
Applied Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms, Databases, Machine Lemming, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Cloud Computing, Distributed Computing
EXPERIENCE
DynamoAl
Remote Senior Software Engineer (Contract)
Jan 2024 - Present
Designed and implemented an interactive dashboard utilizing D3 and visx libraries, providing users with a comprehensive tool for evaluating prompts across various metrics.
Engineered a CQRS-based system on the backend using Nest.js, enabling asynchronous generation of prompts and enhancing system scalability and maintainability.
Implemented model loading utilizing LoRa, optimizing the efficiency and performance of the application's machine learning components.
Spearheaded engineering efforts related to AWS Marketplace and Sagemalcer integration, facilitating seamless deployment mid management of machine learning models.
Streamlined deployment processes using Pulumi, contributing to a more efficient and reliable deployment pipeline, including the development of a full self-serve deployment solution.
Played a key role in addressing security vulnerabilities (CVEs), reducing their count from 609 to 2 through diligent analysis and proactive mitigation measures.
Developed agentic-evaluation framework using foundation open-source models.
Union.ai
Remote Senior Fullstack Engineer
Jan 2023 - Jan 2024
Worked on Flyte and Union Cloud Console, a performant workflow orchestration platform that seamlessly unifies data, ML and analytic stacks written in Go, Python and React.
Implemented gRPC services for supporting complex real-time workflow visualizations and executions over DAG
Implemented custom parsers mid plugins for quick-compilation of run-tune inputs built on top of JSON schema spec.
Designed and implemented a highly optimized KDTree based algorithm for Distribution and Alignment snapping of workflow elements
Programmed observability metrics for Union Cloud platform for real-time monitoring of logs and important metrics such as GPU. CPU utilization, live streaming of workflow execution logs
Revamped Union Cloud Platform design using Atomic Design
Synthesia
Remote Senior Fullstack Engineer
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
Worked on Synthesia Studio, a performant in-browser video editor written in React.js with serverless Flask API with PostgresQL and MongoDB.
Implemented support for complex real-time collaboration mid presence detection in Synthesia Studio in React using Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDT)
Implemented custom plugins and mark wrappers using Tiptap and Prose-mirror to restructure the speech input and add support for Synthesia specific nodes to annote events in videos like gestures, micro-gestures, timeline markers. etc.
Designed mid implemented a highly optimized KD'Ree based algorithm for Distribution and Alignment snapping of canvas elements for Synthesia Studio
Extended Synthesia's internal SSML parser with support for customised tags for tuning video animation with voice script
Revamped Synthesia STUDIO Editor design using Atomic Design
Alan AI
Remote Founding Software Engineer
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
Developed several internal visualization tools for tracking machine learning pipelines and models using React.js and D3.js
Implemented end-to-end Alan STUDIO, a React.js based browser environment for allowing users to train Alan's AI bot right within their own browser
Built a synthetic dataset sampler to train Alan's entity-recogniser, improving accuracy by 4.6% • Added multilingual support for Alan's entity-recogniser
Dockerized existing scripts for running model training on cloud
Worked on Node.js and Apollo GrapliQL to develop a performant GraphQL backend server
Integrated a robust queue system using BullMQ for processing heavy background jobs
Impact Improved server query response time by 72% by restructing API and optimizing database queries
Led efforts for Alan Studio, a cloud-based service that let's users train and test Alan's capabilities in less than 30 seconds
Reduced reporting API endpoint response times from several minutes to fewer than 7 seconds by rewriting the API using Nestjs, SQL query optimization and caching
Built a group of microservices to automate infrastructure management for Alan Platform using Nestjs, Caddy proxy. Terraform, Google Cloudrun, Google PubSub
Github
Open Source Fellow
Remote May 2020 - Aug 2020
Remodelled existing code on NVM to rollout support for Windows-based systems
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