Kshitij Chawla

About Kshitij Chawla

Open Work Permit, Canada.Software Engineer with 6 years of experience, specializing in Backend & API Development, building dependable products with high code quality, and collaborating across teams and stakeholders. Contributor to the Open-Source Nilearn project.1. Skilled in building robust backends and APIs.2. Engineering fundamentals focused software development, including Observability, test methodologies, CI.3. Effective collaboration across technical and non-technical teams.4. Accomplished at going beyond tech and job description to achieve good product and enable the team.

Experience

1. Project Owner and Engineer

   Duke University Health System

   Oct 2022 — Present

   Owning the End-to-end development – from the ground up, of a medical ML platform empowering clinicians and researchers to create and execute automated workflows for medical image analyses across thousands of images every day, facilitating researchers to focus on better research and enabling faster diagnoses.1. Identified, architected, and implemented ML platform that is based on MDLC, to enable seamless deployment of diverse models across different disease areas, accessible via RESTful API endpoints and a convenient web GUI. Focus area: Deployment and inference of models.2. Microservices and pub-sub architecture with ubiquitous observability, including distributed tracing, to ensure high availability, robustness, and maintainability of the platform.3. Expedited product utility for users by identifying and building the most important use cases, made possible by gathering user requirements & feedback via regular demos.Coding Highlights-1. Built a Web UI after learning Dartlang and Flutter, all in 2 months.2. Augmented observability of the entire code base with manual distributed tracing, in a way that ensure all the code change happened at a single point, without touching the remaining code, using dependency injection and Python class’s subclass hooks feature.

Education

• MITx Courses

  MOOC Certificate, Computer Science

• Anna University Chennai

  Master of Engineering, Biotechnology

  2008 — 2010

• Sir Padampat Singhania Education Center

  High School, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, English

  1990 — 2003

• Wake Forest University School of Medicine

  Master's Degree, Neuroscience

  2011 — 2014

• Amity University

  Bachelor Of Engineering, Biotechnology

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Matlab
• Parametrization of High-Dimensional Signals (Using Matlab)
• In-Vivo Extracellular Single Cell Electrophyisology
• Animal (Feline) Research Procedures
• Rt-Pcr
• Pcr
• Protein Chemistry
• Agarose Gel Electrophoresis
• Molecular Biology
• Molecular Cloning
• Cell Culture
• Sds-Page
• Western Blotting
• Bioinformatics
• Cell Biology
• Computational Biology
• Science
• Research
• Microscopy
• Biotechnology
• Lifesciences
• Biochemistry
• Statistics
• Tissue Sectioning
• Histology
• Iacuc
• Photoshop
• Written & Oral Presentation Skills
• Microsoft Office
• Brain
• Life Sciences
• Sas
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Microsoft Excel
• Neuroscience
• Laboratory
• Gel Electrophoresis
• Microsoft Word
• Python