Available · Chicago, IL · May 2026
Het
Nagda
Started building web apps in Mumbai. Spent 1.5 years at Accenture working on enterprise-scale B2B systems. Now finishing an MS at UIC — diving deep into distributed systems and ML infrastructure. Next stop: engineering teams that move fast and build things that matter.
2+
Years Industry Exp
10+
Projects on GitHub
4
Internships & Roles
02 / 05
Skills & Stack
BackendDistributed
Data EngFrontend
MLCloud
Distributed / Cloud
Languages
Frameworks
03 / 05
Work & Education
Nov 2022 – Jul 2024
Associate Software Engineer
Accenture · Mumbai, IN
- JS automation pipeline for 10K+ daily B2B transactions — 55% overhead reduction.
- Fault-tolerant parsing & validation logic — 30% lower failure rate.
- Root-cause analysis on production outages — MTTR down 40%.
- Bug remediation across 20+ engineer Agile team — 25% fewer recurring defects.
Feb 2021 – Apr 2021
Python Developer Intern
Trivia Softwares · Mumbai, IN
- Revamped UI/UX with Django templates — 300+ DAU, 90% shorter onboarding.
- DB indexing cut page load times by 25%.
- Zero critical bugs across 3 releases via thorough test coverage.
Nov 2019 – Dec 2019
Web Developer Intern
The Side Project Advertising · Mumbai, IN
- Built and launched a responsive website with Bootstrap & HTML — 10% organic traffic lift.
- Enhanced SEO through content structure optimization — additional 10% web traffic increase.
- Designed and implemented software applications per client requirements.
May 2019 – Jul 2019
Website Developer Intern
Shelar Academy · Mumbai, IN
- Built interactive web pages for a coaching center with HTML5, CSS3 & JS — improved functionality and usability.
- CSS3 transitions and animations delivered a 20% increase in user engagement.
- Performance tuning improved navigation speed and streamlined user interactions.
Aug 2024 – May 2026
MS, Computer Science
University of Illinois Chicago
- Distributed Systems · Data Engineering · Machine Learning · Algorithms.
- Dimensionality reduction coursework: SVD, PCA, CUR decomposition.
Aug 2018 – May 2022
BE, Computer Engineering
University of Mumbai
- Foundation in algorithms, systems, and web development.
04 / 05
Featured Projects
01
Distributed LLM Inference Engine
MapReduce pipeline on AWS EMR for parallel LLM training & serving
Scala · AWS EMR
Spark · Akka HTTP · gRPC
Spark · Akka HTTP · gRPC
−89%
processing time
- Architected MapReduce pipeline on AWS EMR with Hadoop for parallel tokenization of a 10GB corpus, cutting processing time by 89%.
- Designed distributed Spark training across a multi-node cluster using Parameter Averaging with DeepLearning4J.
- Deployed an Akka HTTP microservice on EC2 with gRPC-Lambda integration, handling concurrent requests at sub-200ms latency.
02
Cancer Nutrition Analytics Dashboard
Interactive D3.js visualizations analyzing dietary patterns in 724
patients
React · D3.js
JavaScript · TopoJSON
JavaScript · TopoJSON
<100ms
cross-chart response
- Developed an interactive React dashboard with 7 custom D3.js visualizations across 724 patients in 50 states.
- Implemented linked filtering with React memoization delivering sub-100ms interactions across 10K+ data points.
- Built radar and parallel coordinate visualizations comparing individual dietary metrics against national averages.
03
Chicago Energy Performance Navigator
ML ensemble on 3,500+ buildings for ENERGY STAR score prediction
Python · Scikit-learn
XGBoost · Streamlit · Folium
XGBoost · Streamlit · Folium
93%
model accuracy R²
- Trained ensemble ML models (Random Forest, XGBoost, Gradient Boosting) on 3,500+ buildings achieving R²=0.93.
- Applied K-means clustering to segment 4 building archetypes, projecting 15–20% citywide energy savings.
- Shipped a Streamlit dashboard processing 25+ energy metrics with geospatial visualizations.
Open to full-time roles · Starting May 2026
Let's
build something.
Targeting distributed systems & backend engineering roles at early-stage startups and established tech companies.
hetrnagda@gmail.com ↗ Send email