Anirudha Bedre (Ani) | Software Engineer & AI Enthusiast

Senior Software Engineer - Recommendation Systems & Retail Shopping Site

Jan 2024 - Sep 2024

American Tire Distributors - Boston, MA

Developed event-driven backend microservices for recommendation systems supporting tire retailers, while contributing to the front-end development of their tire shopping website. (Python/Java/Angular/FastAPI/BigQuery/Kubernetes)

Senior Data Engineer - Platform Team & Smart Order Team

May 2021 - Dec 2023

Torqata - Boston, MA

Developed event-driven backend microservices for automated tire ordering systems, enhancing system scalability and responsiveness. (Python/FastAPI/Kubernetes/Postgres/Redis/GCP Cloud Run/PubSub/Cloud Composer/Cloud Storage)
Designed and maintained developer automation tools, infrastructure, and services on Google Cloud Platform to streamline deployment and operational efficiency. (Docker/Terraform/Kubernetes/Helm/GitHub Actions/ArgoCD)
Led weekly architecture and design forums for internal stakeholders, sharing best practices and driving alignment on platform solutions and improvements.

AWS Data Engineer - Data Analytics & SEO

Mar 2017 – May 2021

The Shipyard - Columbus, OH

Designed and built end-to-end ETL data pipelines and applications on AWS and Kubernetes, integrating diverse vendor and client data sources to implement marketing attribution, user-level analytics, programmatic bidding, and identity resolution, while managing cloud infrastructure and services on AWS. (Python/Apache Spark/Kubernetes/Postgres/Aerospike/AWS EMR/SQS/Lambda/S3/DynamoDB)

Data Specialist Intern - Cloud Data Services – Analytics

Feb 2016 – Aug 2016

IBM - Cambridge, MA

Developed a web portal to showcase IBM cloud offerings; contributed to the ‘pixiedust’ Python library by building visualization plugins in IBM Jupyter Notebooks, enabling intuitive graph and chart representations of Apache Spark dataframes data. (Node.js/Cloud Foundry/Cloudant/Python/Apache Spark)

Programmer Analyst - Data Warehousing & BI – Banking & Financial Services

Sep 2012 – Jun 2014

Cognizant Technology Solutions - Chennai, India

Migrated credit systems’ ETL and business logic from Ab Initio to Informatica and Teradata custom stored procedures, optimizing transformation workflows and increasing data pipeline efficiency by 70%. (SQL)

Professional Certifications

Microsoft Certified Azure AI Engineer Associate(2025)
AWS - Generative AI with Large Language Models(2025)
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect(2023)
Kubernetes Certified Administrator(2022)
AWS Certified Developer Associate(2017)

Technical Skills

Education

Master of Science in Information Systems

Dec 2016

Northeastern University, Boston, MA
Focus: Big-data Systems & Analytics, Advances in Data Science, Planning & Management of Information Systems, Business Analysis, Application Engineering & Development, Web Development Tools.

Programming Languages:	Python, Java, SQL, Javascript/Typescript, R, Scala, HTML
Databases:	PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB, Aerospike, CouchDB, Teradata
Data Warehousing & BI:	Tableau, Apache Superset, Informatica, IBM Cognos, Spotfire, Qlikview, Ab Initio
Big Data:	Apache Spark, BigQuery, AWS Athena, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub, Hadoop.
Cloud Platforms & Orchestration:	Google Cloud Platform(GCP), Amazon Web Services(AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Apache Airflow, IPython/Jupyter Notebooks, Helm.

Anirudha Deepak Bedre (Ani)

Professional Work Experience

Professional Certifications

Technical Skills

Education