Software Developer Intern

My journey at Skima.ai was transformative, working at the intersection of recruitment technology and artificial intelligence. As one of the early engineering interns at this ambitious startup, I had the opportunity to work on critical infrastructure and performance optimization that directly impacted our user experience.

I spearheaded several key initiatives that significantly improved our platform's performance:

Engineered a 70% improvement in query speed through sophisticated optimization of Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord with PostgreSQL, transforming our candidate listing pages from sluggish to near-instantaneous

Architected and implemented an asynchronous processing system using Sidekiq workers and cron jobs, dramatically improving system responsiveness for our recruitment partners

Led the migration of our critical workflow to AWS Lambda, achieving a 50% boost in processing speed and enabling real-time data-driven decision making

Integrated and fine-tuned multiple third-party APIs including Stripe for payments and Greenhouse for ATS integration

Developed robust web scraping solutions using Python and Selenium to expand our market analysis capabilities

Implemented advanced LLM prompt engineering using OpenAI's Ruby gem, automating diverse data generation and enhancing our AI-powered features

Working in a fast-paced startup environment taught me invaluable lessons about rapid iteration, cross-functional collaboration, and the importance of building scalable solutions. Each feature release directly impacted our user acquisition and retention metrics, providing immediate feedback on our engineering decisions.