Pushkar Bhingarkar

About Pushkar Bhingarkar

I am a seasoned Staff/Tech Lead Software Engineer with over 15 years of experience in designing, building, and scaling high-performance software solutions. My expertise spans full-stack development, cloud-native architectures, and data-driven systems with a strong focus on delivering impactful business outcomes.At Redfin I\'ve led strategic initiatives in increasing traffic, revenue, and user engagement by introducinginnovative features like climate risk data and Generative AI tools. My work has enabled Redfin to outperform competitors in SEO rankings and achieve top-tier performance metrics.I thrive in collaborative environments, fostering engineering excellence through cross-team collaboration, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. My technical toolkit includes Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, AWS, Python, ReactJS, Datadog, Nginx, NodeJS, GraphQL, and Terraform among others. I am passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems and deliver exceptional user experiences.

Experience

1. Technical Lead

   Redfin

   Dec 2021 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Strategic Roadmap Development: Spearheaded the development of a multi-year strategic roadmap, introducing exclusive features like climate risk data and a half-dozen more insightful features to increase user engagement. This was extensively covered by the leading media outlets and featured in Redfin\'s press releases.• Generative AI Tool: Designed and developed a Generative AI tool for Redfin agents, doubling feature adoption and boosting buyer conversion rates. Partnered with the product team to refine the prompts to ensure data compliance and privacy.• Climate Risk Feature: Led the end-to-end development of the Climate Risks feature, integrating property parcel data and expanding analytical pipelines. Showcased in the leading publications like Yahoo Finance, Fast Company and Washington Post.• Scalable Data Pipeline: Designed and implemented a scalable data pipeline to process vast amount of data ingested from various sources (proprietary data + public data) to power various feature insights.• Web Performance Optimization: Drove a cross-functional web and server-side performance initiative, implementing optimizations that helped Redfin.com outperform the competitors in the SEO rankings.

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Computer Engineer, Computer Science and Technology

Skills

• Software Development
• Solution Architecture
• Java
• Esb
• Xml
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Enterprise Software
• Web Services
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Big Data
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• Unix