Tanmay Bagaria

Curious about systems, both technical and natural. I spend my time working on backend and AI systems, exploring how things fit and scale. I enjoy reading, wandering and learning how things work.

Outside of tech, I'm exploring sustainable ventures on my family's tea estate.

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Experience

Oracle America, Inc

Software Engineer

2020 – Present

Worked on the fastest OLTP database, zero-latency cache, next-generation scale-out engine with absolute availability, high-performance streaming, vector database systems, and AI agents.

MentorCruise

Tech Mentor

2020 - 2021

Guided professionals in building and deploying web applications, with a focus on modern full-stack development.

Fetch Rewards, Inc

Software Engineer, Intern

2020

Adding features to the App+Internal Productivity

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

2019 - 2020

Courses: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (x3), Systems Programming (x2), Algorithms.

UW-Madison Department of Biochemistry

Undergraduate Researcher

2019

Developed clustering algorithms for analyzing high-dimensional protein interactions.

Zomato

Product Manager, Intern

2018

Market research, client outreach, and growth.

Projects

Virtual Shopping Assistant

AI-powered voice assistant for natural language shopping with bidirectional chat interface.

June 2021

Entity Matching

Machine learning system using fuzzy string matching to predict similarity between CSV documents with 91% accuracy.

May 2020

Flood Watch

Location-based flood alert system with elevation data and weather APIs. React frontend with AWS backend.

🏆 Best JS - HackUIowa '19

October 2019

LandYourGreen.space

Land auction platform with real-time bidding, SMS alerts, and environmental analytics.

April 2019

Farm Excess

Platform connecting farmers' excess produce with community members, featuring smart recipe suggestions.

🏆 Best GCP - MinneHack '19

January 2019

Chain Voting

Decentralized blockchain voting system with Firebase auth and Python TCP sockets for real-time tracking.

February 2018

Reading List

Papers

  • Learning to Adapt Pre-trained Language Models to Unseen Domains 2023
  • Efficient Online Learning for Large-Scale Real-Time Systems 2022
  • Understanding and Optimizing Multi-Stage AI Inference Pipelines 2023
  • The Tail at Scale 2013
  • Attention Is All You Need 2017
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks 2020
  • Direct Preference Optimization 2023
  • Life Beyond Distributed Transactions: an Apostate’s Opinion 2008
  • Tango: Distributed Data Structures over a Shared Log 2013
  • Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems 1999
  • Amazon's Dynamo 2007
  • MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing 2004
  • The Google File System 2003

Technical

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications Martin Kleppmann
  • Site Reliability Engineering Google SRE Team
  • Clean Architecture Robert C. Martin
  • The Pragmatic Programmer Dave Thomas & Andy Hunt
  • The Beginning of Infinity David Deutsch
  • Seeing Like a State James C. Scott
  • Finite and Infinite Games James P. Carse
  • The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel

Non-Fiction

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman
  • The Psychology of Money Morgan Housel
  • The Simple Path to Wealth JL Collins
  • Secrets of Sand Hill Road Scott Kupor
  • Platform Revolution Geoffrey G. Parker et al.
  • How to Create a Mind Ray Kurzweil
  • The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • Chip War Chris Miller
  • The WEIRDest People in the World Joseph Henrich
  • Man's Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl
  • The Revolt of the Public Martin Gurri
  • The Black Swan Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger
  • The Art of War Sun Tzu
  • The Book of Why Judea Pearl

Fiction

  • Project Hail Mary Andy Weir
  • Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
  • Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng
  • The Midnight Library Matt Haig
  • Recursion Blake Crouch
  • The Vegetarian Han Kang
  • Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Exhalation Ted Chiang
  • Stoner John Williams
  • Piranesi Susanna Clarke
  • The Tartar Steppe Dino Buzzati
  • The Rings of Saturn W.G. Sebald
  • The Employees Olga Ravn