Abraham Zakharov




Software Engineer

About Me


2020 Computer Science master’s graduate with valuable experience gained in both professional and academic environments. Proven ability to succeed and learn in demanding environments and deliver quality code on deadlines.

Skills


The following is a summary of notable technologies that I have experience with. Although I am ready and willing to learn anything that would be required of me.

Java
Python
C
Typescript
Angular
React
Javascript
Node.js
Express
HTML
CSS
MySQL
MS SQL Server

My full list of software engineering experience includes: Java, Python, C, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Express.js, REST API Development, Angular, React, Vue.js, SQL, NoSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Bootstrap, Visual Studio, MS SQL Server, Git, AWS, Azure, Heroku, NGINX, and Docker.

Experience


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Google

Software Engineer

August 2022 - Present

  • Leading the development of a Gen AI-powered concierge service for billing support, overseeing the project from initial design to global launch for English-speaking customers, achieving a 30% increase in case deflection over the previous solution.
  • Integrated advanced LLM capabilities into our concierge experience including Vertex function calling to enable real-time data through API access, google search based grounding for RAG, user signals retrieval, and an intent based multi-agent architecture.
  • Oversaw safety initiatives for AI driven applications. Pioneered pre-processing filters to block PII sent by users, post-processing filters to remove harmful content generated by LLMs, and workflow policy checks, screening 10,000+ daily conversations.
  • Established and independently manage a data pipeline of LLM interaction data including 6 tables piped into a multitude of data marts (some pseudonymized) utilized by 5+ teams and 30+ users for research, reporting, and analytics.
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JPMorgan Chase

Software Engineer

October 2021 - July 2022

  • Refining production level code as a backend Java engineer for 20+ RESTful Spring-based microservices, including general improvements, new features, bug fixes, and integration with new services.
  • Contributing to high-level discussions on improving authentication services which power consumer banking applications used by 50+ million users.
  • Validating code-base changes by writing 10+ tests per sprint using JUnit (TDD) and Cucumber tests (BDD).
  • Managed the deployment process by launching pools, creating global load balancers, and supervising the production deployment of microservices which are called 100+ million times per month for a variety of authentication processes.
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Mount Sinai Health System

Research Programmer Analyst

August 2020 - October 2021

  • Directed and innovated an early-stage application as the leading developer and full stack project manager of a proprietary medical research e-consent platform supporting 70+ research projects, 250+ researchers, and 1000’s of patients.
  • Strengthened the platform by architecting new features, developing new pipelines, fixing bugs, streamlining the continuous delivery of updates, testing functionality, managing deployment, and maintaining upkeep of 3 servers 24/7).
  • Spearheaded updates including batch importing patients, Docusign integration, patient management dashboard for researchers, and multi-language support. These updates reduced procedure times by over 200% for 1000's of users.
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UAlbany Data Mining Lab

Research Project Software Engineer

January 2020 - May 2020

  • Pioneered an independent full stack development project to build a user-friendly activity monitor for a location based mobile app to increase productivity through data visualization on a map with 100+ possible combinations for data analysis.
  • Designed a REST API and login server using a MySQL database and the Express Node.js framework with 5+ routes in each.
  • Constructed the activity monitor website featuring user authentication, user roles, an administrator panel, data analytics, and an interactive map generated with 7 user inputted parameters, built with Angular 8 and the Google Maps API.
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MVP Health Care

Software Engineer Intern

June 2019 - August 2019

  • Engineered 15 interactive SSRS reports for the operations department in an Agile Scrum development cycle, exceeding the department’s goal by 10+ reports for the summer.
  • Produced 100+ queries, functions, stored procedures, and tables to develop new reports and improve existing reports.
  • Reviewed, tested, and debugged new code and over 10 projects of legacy code.
  • Led presentations for executive team to elucidate 100,000+ rows of errors in database to ensure reliability of data.

Projects


Below are projects I've worked on in the past. You can also see my GitHub for more examples of my work.

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X4 Production Chart

Built a simple, intuitive, and interactive production chart for the video game X4: Foundations, aiding 50,000+ players.

Created using React.

LiveGitHub
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Chewie Coin

Launched Chewie Coin, a decentralized crypto token currently available on the open market.

Website made with React

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Stocklist

Formulated a financial platform to search information about 10,000+ stocks (company information, financial data, sentiment, news), charts, create accounts, maintain a watchlist.

Stack: React, Finnhub API, MongoDB, Node.js, Express.js, and Heroku.

LiveGitHub
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Sydmovies

Find your favorite movies, create accounts, add favorites, see scores from the top 3 platforms, and includes its own review system.

Stack: Angular, Firebase user authentication, Firebase NoSQL database, Bootstrap, and the OMDB API.

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Education


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Master Degree in Computer Science

University at Albany: Master of Science in Computer Science

May 2020

GPA: 3.49

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Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

University at Albany: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

May 2019

GPA: 3.64, Magna Cum Laude, Deans List (x5)

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High School Diploma

Leon M. Goldstein High School for the Sciences (Brooklyn, NY)

June 2015

Advanced Regents Diploma

Contact


To get in touch for any inquiries or just to say hello, please feel free to send me an email at: info@abrahamzakharov.com.