Naved Merchant

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Personal Projects

MyDeviceAI

2024
  • MyDeviceAI lets you run a LLM right on your phone, without an internet connection. it optimizes the app for your iPhone.
Technologies: React Native

PatternLauncher

2014
  • Pattern Launcher lets you launch any app on your phone from anywhere, using a Pattern
  • > 10,000 downloads, and 200 5 star reviews
Technologies: Java, Android

Professional Experience

Amazon Lab 126

Software Engineer | July 2019 – Present
  • Working as a part of the HumanIO team, solving problems related to text input and output on Amazon devices
  • Designed and Developed core Internationalization features for next generation Vega Operating System
  • Built the First ever AI keyboard for Amazon's Tablet devices, Writing Assist, projected to increase revenue by 800k
Technologies: Java, C, C++, JavaScript

Oath Inc. (Formerly Yahoo Inc.)

Software Engineer | Feb 2017 – July 2019
  • Worked as a part of Tripod, the photo and video platform
  • Built Infrastructure for real time machine learning projects like realtime celebrity face detection
  • Increased the availability of the system to 99.99%
Technologies: Java, Python, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spark, Tensorflow, Storm

Education

University at Buffalo

Master of Science in Computer Science
Graduated: Feb 2017 | GPA: 3.72
Relevant Courses: Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, System Security, Information Retrieval, Machine Learning

Mumbai University

Bachelor of Computer Science Engineering
Graduated: July 2013 | GPA: 3.79

Skills

Programming Languages

Java Python Perl C# C++ JavaScript

Frameworks & Technologies

Spring Boot AWS Node.js Android SDK Hadoop Spark