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Bhrigu Bhargava

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Professional Profile

Dynamic leader with 12+ years delivering innovative technology solutions across consumer, research, and startup environments. Track record of aligning engineering with business outcomes, leading cross-functional teams, and optimizing platforms, data pipelines, and AI/ML products for measurable impact.

Highlights:

  • Delivered and operated microservices/GraphQL platforms processing 1M+ daily transactions, achieving 99.9%+ uptime with DataDog-driven observability.
  • Cut CI/CD times by up to 35%, reduced post-release defects by 25%, and eliminated high vendor costs via in-house messaging/notifications.
  • Built MRI AI/ML pipelines boosting Dice by 15% and throughput by 25%; led analytics that unlocked savings in healthcare operations.
  • Scaled teams via enablement (15+ sessions), codified best practices, and raised autonomy while lowering escalations by 40%.

Career Summary (Industry Domain Experience):

  • Retail/E-commerce: Platform engineering at Under Armour; headless commerce, payments, order lifecycle, and post-purchase experiences at global scale.
  • Healthcare: MRI segmentation research (VIPAR), Medicaid/utilization analytics (Index Analytics), and healthcare platform features (Select Computing).
  • Financial Services: Web performance/SRE and analytics enablement (CEB/Gartner) with measurable uplift in engagement and reliability.
  • Startups/Founder: Built and scaled services products (Viryaas) and a student travel venture (Amour Voyage) with repeat business and standardized ops.
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Skills

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Domain Knowledge/Courses Completed

  • Software Development
  • Full-stack Development
  • Computer Architecture
  • Operating System
  • Service Oriented Computing
  • Web Development
  • Front-end Development
  • Backend Development
  • Data Development
  • Internet of Things
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • Computer Vision
  • Robotics
  • Deep Learning

Programming/Scripting Languages

  • Python
  • C++
  • Java
  • Shell
  • Julia
  • TypeScript & NodeJS
  • JavaScript & ECMAScript 6
  • React & Next.js & Angular
  • HTML5 & CSS3
  • SQL & PostGreSQL & MongoDB
  • MATLAB
  • RobotC
  • PyTorch
  • Keras
  • TensorFlow

Additional Skillsets

  • Project Management
  • Client Engagement
  • Team Management
  • Event Management
  • Team Player
  • Proactive and Responsible
  • Hardworking & Reliable
  • Mediation and Problem Solving Skills
  • Ambitious & Organized
  • Broadminded & Coherent
  • Consistent & Efficient
  • Tech Savvy

Software/Cloud Competence

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Tableau,
  • R Studio
  • Google Analytics
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • APIgee
  • JIRA
  • GIT
  • MATLAB
  • OpenCV
  • Adobe Photoshop

Hardware & OS Exposure

  • Robotics OS (ROS)
  • Windows OS
  • Linux OS
  • Android & iOS
  • Sensors
  • Actuators
  • PCB Design
  • Camera
  • FPGA
  • Zed Board
  • Arduino
  • Raspberry Pi

Language Skills

English Experienced
Hindi Experienced

Experience

Profusion of Experience!

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."
- Paulo Coelho

Under Armour

Software Engineer (Full Stack)

July 2021 – September 2025
  • Strategic Architecture: Led design and launch of omni-commerce platform and microservices architecture, delivering high-scale backend services and headless frontend features that supported 1M+ daily transactions across mobile and web.
  • Cost Optimization: Built in-house SQS-based API messaging infrastructure to replace Manhattan OMS, integrating Narvar order tracking API and Salesforce Marketing Cloud API. Automated real-time order notifications, achieving significant annual savings in vendor costs, boosting reliability, and increasing operational ownership.
  • DevOps & Efficiency: Reduced build times by 35% and achieved substantial cost savings by streamlining DevOps workflows. Redesigned testing strategy with mocked service calls, consolidated tool chains (GitHub → Teams), optimized caching layers, and modernized CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to boost release velocity and test reliability.
  • Business Impact: Architected and delivered backend services for Canada-specific Order History Search, enhancing self-service capabilities. Reduced support load by 30% and drove significant annual cost savings, effectively fueling post-purchase re-engagement.
  • Security & Resilience: Spearheaded multi-layered security initiatives, including GraphQL API audits, SignalScience and CodeQL scans, and PR risk mitigation strategies. Implemented custom DataDog dashboards to fortify backend resilience and accelerate incident response.
  • Innovation & Expansion: Drove cross-functional development of high-impact features including LLaMA integration (Hackathon), ML wish-list recommendation systems, outfit personalization, mobile push alerts, and global API scaling. Enabled market expansion to APAC and EU regions, reducing churn by 18% and improving CSAT by +12pts.
  • Engineering Culture: Multiplied team productivity and accelerated on-boarding by launching high-impact "Show-n-Tell" sessions and building a centralized video hub to archive knowledge-sharing content. Mentored peers and led platform walkthroughs, reducing lead engineer escalations by 40% and boosting cross-team autonomy.
  • Technologies used: Node.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, Python, NextJS, Jest, DataDog, Kubernetes, Docker, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, ECS, EKS, ELB, SQS, SNS), SignalScience.
VIPAR Lab

Machine Learning Guest Researcher

December 2019 – July 2021
  • Algorithm Development: Pioneered novel segmentation algorithm for 3D brain MRI analysis that surpassed traditional methods by eliminating the need for prior structural knowledge and enabling end-to-end, automated agentic volumetric segmentation.
  • Research Experimentation: Conducted extensive experiments on segmentation variables: high-resolution MRI (3T vs 1.5T), sequencing techniques (T1/T2/FLAIR), histogram intensity mapping, skull stripping, bias field correction, and boundary enhancement. Boosted segmentation accuracy by 15% and reduced processing time by 25%.
  • Clinical Impact: Created methods to analyse volumetric ranges of brain structures (e.g., hippocampus, amygdala, ventricles), contributing toward research in depression, PTSD, dementia risk, psychopathy, and surgical planning.
  • Technologies used: Python, MATLAB, PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, OpenCV, Matplotlib, MONAI, C++, NIfTI, BrainSuite, profilers.
Select Computing Inc.

Software Developer

February 2019 – May 2019
  • Feature Development: Transformed business goals, feature concepts, and customer needs into product features for the next-generation proprietary healthcare system. Resolved 25+ high-impact issues and reduced system downtime by 18%.
  • Technologies used: Python, Java, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, BitBucket, SourceTree.
Index Analytics LLC

Software Data Developer

November 2018 – December 2019
  • Strategic Development: Strategized high-impact objectives from federal/state healthcare contracts into actionable roadmaps by delivering 10+ reusable models and dashboards that accelerated executive decision-making by 20%.
  • Operational Savings: Led analytics initiatives on Medicaid and addiction-related datasets to uncover opioid abuse trends and treatment gaps by driving $200K+ in cost savings, optimizing execution, and informing public health strategies at the state level.
  • Technologies used: Python, scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Matplotlib, Qlik Sense, Tableau, SQL.
University of Maryland, BC

Software Engineering Instructor

February 2018 – May 2019
  • Instructed software development fundamentals and university technology stack to incoming transfer students.
  • Technologies used: GitHub, C++, Python, Java, Linux, GL Systems, SDLC, Software Development Methodologies, Agile Methodologies, OOPS, Data Structures, and Project Design.
University of Maryland, BC

Graduate Assistant

February 2018 – May 2019
  • Guided students, created assessments, and organized Artificial Intelligence coursework.
  • Technologies used: Python, R, MATLAB, Java, C++, and GitHub.
SD Systems

Design Engineer

October 2015 - May 2017
  • Product Development: Delivered custom visual surveillance solutions adopted by military, improving rugged durability and surveillance by 30%.
  • Web Development: Led the redesign of customer-facing platforms, improving usability scores by 60% and increasing client acquisition.
  • Cross-Functional: Bridged talent gaps by learning 3ds Max to help with mechanical design, ensuring 90%+ on-time delivery.
  • Technologies used: C++, Verilog, VHDL, FPGA, OrCAD Capture, Allegro, AutoCAD, 3ds Max, JavaScript, Node.js, React.
CEB (now Gartner)

Web Developer

March 2013 - February 2015
  • Full-Lifecycle Ownership: Championed the architectural design and development of enterprise SPAs, defining long-term technology roadmaps that standardized cross-browser resilience and slashed page load times by 30%.
  • Site Reliability: Managed ownership and site reliability for 3 large enterprise and 1 mid-market website, ensuring 99.9% up-time and reducing load times by 30%.
  • Mentorship: Supervised and mentored a team of 6 interns, providing guidance on technology platforms and project management.
  • Technologies used: JavaScript, SQL, jQuery, Java, Google Analytics.


Awards:
  • Awarded "Outstanding Product Innovation" for coding an interactive tool that enhanced engagement.
  • Awarded "Exceptional Project Management" for delivering and multi-tasking more than sixty projects efficiently.
  • Awarded "Firmwide Recognition of Excellence and Dedication" for Stewardship of Exceptional Talent, Member Impact and Spirit of Generosity.
Amour Voyage

Founder

January 2014 - January 2015
  • Venture Building: Founded a niche travel startup targeting untapped student demographics, building a dynamic "Destination Insights" platform powered by real-time user data and evolving AI heuristics.
  • Growth: Delivered 50+ personalized group itineraries across India, driving unique travel experiences and increasing customer acquisition by 25%.
  • End-to-End Operational Leadership: Directed full-lifecycle trip operations and market research initiatives, building a high-performing cross-functional team from the ground up to support a 25% increase in customer acquisition.
  • Technologies used: JavaScript, Python.
Viryaas

Founder

September 2012 - November 2013
  • Digital Transformation: Built custom e-commerce and marketing platforms using Magento, WordPress, and Drupal—enabling clients to differentiate in competitive markets through full-stack brand presence.
  • Strategic Venture Leadership: Founded and scaled a digital services consultancy, architecting comprehensive brand identities and technical roadmaps for SMBs to drive market differentiation.
Wipro

Intern

2012
Assisted in project involving software development for billing on toll gates for National Highway Authority of India.

Education

Just My Education

"There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."
– John Adams

"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

University of Maryland Baltimore County

Master of Science: Computer Science

Courses taken:
  • Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Advance Operating System
  • Advance Computer Architecture
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Robotics
  • Computer Vision
  • Internet of Things (IOT)
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune

Post Graduation Diploma: VLSI Design

The course covers all major Hardware Description Languages like VHDL, Verilog, System Verilog. Modules of Synthesis, Digital System Design, CMOS Design, OVM, UVM, ASIC Design flow, FPGA Architecture, Computer Architecture, PCI Express, Ethernet, USB were included in the curriculum. Additionally, the course also covered programming languages like Perl, Shell. Tools used during the course are Xilinx ISE Design Suite, Questa, ModelSIM, Spice, IRSIM, MicroMagic Layout Design, VIVADO, Xilinx SDK. In Hardware, Xilinx Virtex 4,6,7 FPGA series and Zed Board platforms were used to execute HDL's.
Rajasthan Technical University

Bachelor of Technology: Electronics and Communications Engineering

Curriculum is subdivided in half yearly Semester system and the courses covered in the course are:
  • 1st year: Information Technology, Computer Systems, Mathematics, Mechanics, Physics, Chemistry, Electrical & Electronics Engg.
  • 3rd Semester: Data Structures & Algorithms, Mathematics, Electronic Devices & Circuits, Circuit Analysis & Synthesis, Electronic Measurements & Instrumentation, Electronic Materials and processes
  • 4th Sem.: Object Oriented Programming, Analog Electronics, Digital Electronics, Electromagnetic Field Theory, Random Variables & Stochastic Processes
  • 5th Sem.: Signals & Systems, Linear Integrated Circuits, Telecommunication Engg., Analog Communication, Microwave Engg., Biomedical Instrumentation
  • 6th Sem.: Digital Communication, Microprocessor and Micro-controller, Industrial Electronics, Control Systems, Optimization Techniques
  • 7th Sem.: Digital Signal Processing, Antenna & Wave Propagation, Wireless Communication, IC Technology, VLSI Design
  • 8th Sem.: Computer Networks, Radar & TV Engineering, Optical Communication, VHDL

Activities and Societies: IEEE, Paper presentations, Annual Fest Organizational Committee, Sponsorship Programs, Active participant for various Seminars, Workshops and Summits. Annual Fest- Organized workshops, Department meetings, Off-site team events and Sponsorship. Have hosted various Events in Annual Fest.
Delhi Public School, R. K. Puram

High School

Graduated with Science (Phy.,Chem.,Maths) and Computer Science as majors.
Participated in Electronics Club and many cultural as well as sports activities .

Projects Portfolio

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- Dr. Seuss

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