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Hello, I'm

Gajanan
Wadekar

I build backend systems and data pipelines — and on the side, I'm into ML and reinforcement learning, exploring more. I break things to understand them, debug what others skip over, and optimize until it's right. 8+ years shipping code across four industries.

Gajanan Wadekar

About Me

the quick version

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Experience
8+ Years in Software Dev & Data Analytics
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Location
Chicago, IL
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Current Role
Sr. Software Engineer @ Anuvu
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Education
MS CS — UT Arlington
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Domain
Aviation & Inflight Systems

Experience

what I've worked on and what I took from it

I'm a problem solver. I pick up whatever is needed to get the job done — new language, new domain, new stack — flexibility is the point. As an engineer, I believe the job doesn't stop at "it works." I'm always looking at the current approach and asking: is there a better way? Question the defaults, challenge the process, find the inefficiency. That mindset — of constantly optimizing, rethinking, and bringing novel ideas to the table — is what I bring to every role.
Enterprise Software
Process Automation (RPA)
Machine Learning Research
FinTech Data Engineering
Telecom Revenue Analytics
Aviation & In-Flight Systems
May 2024 — Present

Senior Software Engineer

Anuvu · Chicago, Illinois

Working on high-throughput data pipelines and real-time telemetry systems for in-flight connectivity. What I enjoy most here is the scale — 1TB of daily logs, 2,000+ flights — and the satisfaction of re-architecting the log-download pipeline so we don't quietly lose flight data anymore. Missing-log rate went from 15–20% to under 1%, and that one fix is what every other system upstream depends on.

Python Linux Bash SQL SNMP GitHub Actions Grafana
Aug 2021 — May 2024

Software Engineer

Anuvu · Lombard, Illinois

Built monitoring, diagnostics, and data collection tools across avionics systems — wifi quality scoring, weather outage detection, modem failure diagnosis. I liked that the problems were novel; nobody handed me a playbook. I had to figure out why things were failing and build the tools to fix and prevent it.

Python Linux Bash SQL Git Jira Grafana
Jan 2021 — Aug 2021

Data Analyst

TEOCO Corp · Overland Park, Kansas

Audited telecom billing circuits and built ETL pipelines to surface revenue leakage. The detective work is what I enjoyed — digging through contracts and data until the discrepancy made sense, which led to identifying over $1M in billing errors.

Alteryx Python SQL Tableau UI Path
Oct 2020 — Dec 2020

Data Engineer Intern

Foxbat Research · Dallas, Texas

Redesigned database architecture and built ETL pipelines for a finance application. A short engagement, but I came in, found what needed improving, and shipped it.

Python SQL Postgres Airflow Tableau
Sep 2019 — Dec 2019

ML Engineer Intern

Foxbat Research · Dallas, Texas

Benchmarked transfer learning and sentiment analysis models across vision and NLP tasks. This is where my interest in ML properly started — hands-on with real models, real data, real tradeoffs.

Python TensorFlow PyTorch OpenCV scikit-learn
Mar 2016 — Aug 2018

Software Engineer

Infosys BPM Ltd · Pune, India

Built full-stack web applications and end-to-end RPA automation for finance processes. What stuck with me was seeing how much manual work could be eliminated — 11 workflows automated, 75% reduction in handling time. That experience shaped how I think about engineering: if something is repetitive and painful, it's a problem worth solving.

C# ASP.NET SQL JavaScript RPA HTML/CSS

Projects

side projects and things I got curious about

WhatIfSabha

Multi-agent literary debate engine. Upload a book, ask a "what if" question, and AI versions of the characters argue out the alternate ending — moderated by an elephant, with per-character voices, an argument ledger, and a live force-directed interaction graph. Streams over SSE; runs on any single API key.

Python FastAPI Next.js Multi-LLM
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FriendInSky

Travel companion app that connects travelers with helpful people on the same flight. Find a friend in the sky — get assistance, share rides, or just have company on your journey.

Flutter Appwrite Dart
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DS-Algo Playground

Interactive educational platform for learning data structures and algorithms through step-by-step canvas visualizations, multi-language code examples, and quizzes. 19 topics covering sorting, searching, trees, graphs, and algorithm techniques.

JavaScript Canvas API HTML/CSS

JobMatch AI

Chrome extension that analyzes job postings against your resume using AI — match scores, skill gap analysis, salary & location extraction, auto-fill applications, and applied jobs tracking.

JavaScript Chrome MV3 Claude AI
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WebGist

Chrome extension that summarizes any webpage using your choice of AI provider — 13 providers including free local Ollama. Translates summaries into 84 languages, reads aloud with TTS, exports to PDF/Markdown, and saves to searchable history.

React TypeScript Chrome MV3
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POMDP Navigation

Agent that learns to navigate a grid with zero location info. Uses Q-Learning with Bayesian belief states to track probability of being in each cell under partial observability.

Python Reinforcement Learning

Chess Piece Detection

Computer vision model that detects chess pieces and locates them on the board. Combines image analysis (Hough transform, corner detection) with a deep neural network for piece classification and move tracking.

Python OpenCV Deep Learning
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Stock Price Prediction

Statistical analysis of historical stock data with pattern visualization. Trained RNN and LSTM models to predict next-day stock prices from time series data.

Python LSTM Seaborn
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Decision Boundary NN

Neural network implementation of the perceptron learning rule to compute and visualize decision boundaries for binary classification problems.

Python Neural Networks

Skills

tools I've actually used, not just heard of

Programming

Python SQL Bash C#

Frameworks & Web

FastAPI Flask .NET / ASP.NET REST APIs React TypeScript HTML CSS JavaScript

Data & Cloud

AWS GCP Docker Airflow Snowflake Spark SQL Alteryx Grafana Power BI Tableau

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL Oracle DB MS SQL Server

Python Ecosystem

NumPy Pandas scikit-learn TensorFlow PyTorch OpenCV

Tools & Methods

Git GitHub Actions Linux Jira Agile RPA SNMP

Education

where it started

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Master of Science — Computer Science

The University of Texas at Arlington

2018 — 2020

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Bachelor of Engineering — Electrical Engineering

University of Pune

2011 — 2015

Get In Touch

always up for a good conversation

If you're working on something cool, I'd genuinely like to hear about it. New project, interesting problem, something you're building — reach out. Always up for a good conversation.