Atharva Phulambrikar | Atharva P Home Page

howdy!

this is atharva, good to see you here :)

hello, world!

Currently, I spend the majority of my time as a software engineer at Roblox, focused on building the metaverse! I graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. I love building and breaking things, from computer software to RC airplanes and everything in between.

Growing up in a home full of art, literature, and music made me learn Indian classical vocal music, and the guitar, from the age of 8. I was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for my band 'loco' in Pune. Music being my first love, I try to experience my favorite artists perform every chance I get. Artists like Three Doors Down, Alter Bridge, Our Last Night, Andrew Belle, Loving Caliber, Boyce Avenue, Shankar Mahadevan, and the Fray.

In my free time, you can find me watching or playing cricket, trying to improve my fantasy football team (with the aid of Ben Crellin and Abubakar Siddiq), reading blogs, and watching the Ultimate Fighting Championship. I've also recently developed a keen interest in wristwatches and watchmaking, which means I spend a lot of time babying my collection and learning more about horology.

Games fascinate me. Other than trying out various board games (my current favorite being Coup) and video games (Valorant is my flavor of the season), I also love to read about game theory and play a lot of poker and chess. Optimization problems immensely fascinate me, and my passion for subjects such as Discrete Math and Automata Theory stems from this liking.

good times
ola!
#UTDone

education

b.s in computer science

The University of Texas at Dallas

2017 - 2021

Academic Excellence Scholar, Graduated Cum Laude

Dean's list - Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020

experience

software engineer II

Roblox

June 2021 - Present

computer science mentor

Computer Science Mentor Center

Feb 2019 - May 2021

capstone swe intern

Toyota Financial Services

Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

software engineer intern

Morgan Stanley

June 2020 - Aug 2020

software engineer intern

Text-Em-All

June 2019 - Dec 2019

supervisor

University Recreation

Sept 2017 - May 2019

Times Square - 1585 Broadway
Class of 2021!
Text-Em-All
Text-Em-All Christmas Party

recommendations

Hai Nguyen | VP of Engineering, Co-founder at Text-Em-All
"After 5 minutes of meeting Atharva, I sensed that he was different from most other students. I selected him for an internship at Call-Em-All from a pool of hundreds of other applicants. As I got to know Atharva, I was impressed by the thoughtfulness of his questions and his creativity. He was even a member of the Call-Em-All band at our annual Christmas party! Atharva grew to become a valuable member of our team and any team would be lucky to have him."
Jing Huang | Executive Director at Morgan Stanley
"Atharva interned with us this summer. He is a quick learner and very proactive. He has excellent problem solving skills and communication skills. He delivered good work in a timely manner."
Aditya Bhatt | AI/ML engineer at Morgan Stanley
"Atharva is very proactive and is eager to learn from others. He has excellent communication and presentation skills. This, along with being humble and an intelligent software engineer is an excellent combination to achieve greatness."
Sangeeta Gupta | Toyota Financial Services
"I worked with Atharva when mentoring for a Toyota sponsored UT Design Capstone project. Atharva and his team worked on developing an app to support a new business concept we were testing. He developed the front end using React Native and Axios, clearly displaying technical expertise and knowledge throughout the project. Understanding a complex problem and delivering an emerging solution that is consumer focused and consumer friendly was a difficult task. He and his team delivered not just the basic requirements but thought ahead and added customer focused features which will help enhance the customer experience. Atharva is a focused and determined individual and a great team worker. I absolutely enjoyed working with Atharva and wish him all the best through his professional journey."

projects

cryptocontext

Provides contextual background on various crypto-currencies based on consumer tone and historical pricing data
API's used - IBM Watson, Twitter, Cryptocompare

aria

A customer service chatbot powered by natural language processing (NLP)
API's used - wit.ai

flybiz

A Google Chrome extension that simplifies business travel needs

wait, what?

Displays information about pop culture news with some conversational context in a condensed format

skills

programming languages and frameworks

Java, C#, C++, C

JavaScript, Python, SQL, R

TypeScript, HTML, Matlab, Assembly

Node.js, SpringBoot, Flask

React, Redux, Bootstrap, Angular, jQuery, Material-UI

misc.

AWS - EC2, Lambda, Cloudwatch, SES

Jenkins CI/CD, Git, GitHub

Linux, Unix, Vim/Emacs

REST/SOAP API's, XML/JSON object parsing

ASP.NET, .NET Core, MVC framework, Factory design pattern

honors and awards

honor/award

First place - ACM Projects

Supervisor of the year

Winner - 'Comets Create' engineering challenge

First place - International Finance Olympiad

organization

The Association of Computing Machinery at UT Dallas

University Recreation at UT Dallas

UT Dallas Makerspace

The Bombay Stock Exchange

blog

Occasionally, I pen down my thoughts, ideas that inspire me, and some learning experiences. I also like to keep track of my favorite articles/authors and blog posts. Curiosity-driven learning and the love for trying new things are why my content is a mix of programming, music, and games.

Medium link - https://medium.com/@athuphul

i'd love to get to know you :)