Hi, I'm Rushikesh Joshi
Turning Coffee into AI-Powered Solutions ☕→🤖
I'm a Software Engineer who builds intelligent systems that actually make sense. Think of me as a translator between "what users want" and "what machines understand" — with 7+ years of making them speak the same language. Currently crafting AI/ML recommendation engines at SAP Concur that help business travelers find their perfect hotel (because nobody should endure another disappointing hotel breakfast).
About Me
Picture this: A kid who broke his first computer trying to "make it faster" grew up to build systems that process millions of requests. Plot twist? I actually learned how to make things faster (and not break them... most of the time).
For the past 7+ years, I've been the person companies call when they need someone to wrangle AI/ML models, tame distributed systems, and make cloud architectures actually work at scale. My weapon of choice? Go and Java (with a side of TypeScript when frontend needs some love). I earned my battle scars and my Master's in Computer Sciences from Trinity College Dublin, where I graduated with First Class Distinction — which is academic speak for "yeah, I really nerded out on data science."
7+ Years
Turning bugs into features
15+ Projects
That actually work in production
500% Faster
Because patience is overrated
Professional Experience
Software Engineer III
SAP Concur Mar 2023 - Present- Enhanced business traveler experience by developing ML-powered recommendation engines:
- Hotel recommendation engine with ~60% accuracy
- Hotel room recommendation using LLMs with ~40% accuracy
- Flight recommendation engine with ~50% accuracy
- Built Agentic AI solutions:
- Email parsing agent for trip search criteria extraction
- Trip search criteria auto-completion agent
- Door-to-door travel planning agent for personalized itineraries
- Improved PSAT score by 5% and reduced regressions to 0 by engineering A/B testing and shadow deployment frameworks
- Developed event-driven real-time monitoring system with dashboards for tracking ML model accuracies
- Created AI-powered GitHub workflows for PR summaries and code reviews
Software Engineer II
SAP Labs Feb 2021 - Mar 2023- Re-engineered SAP Analytics Cloud by rewriting XSJS to modular TypeScript, improving installation speeds by 200% and uninstallation by 500%
- Decoupled SAC from HANA and enabled SQL installations by developing transpilers:
- HANA database artifacts to JSON object schema definitions
- JSON object schemas to SQL queries
Software Engineer I
Susquehanna International Group Sept 2020 - Feb 2021- Decreased testing costs by 50% by developing a stock exchange simulator for traders to test algorithms
Software Engineer I
SAP Labs Sept 2017 - May 2019- Increased customer satisfaction and accelerated time-to-market by decomposing monolithic banking platform into RESTful microservices
Skills & Technologies
Languages
Cloud & Databases
DevOps & Tools
Education
Masters in Computer Sciences - Data Sciences
Trinity College Dublin (University of Dublin)
First Class with Distinction
Sept 2019 - Aug 2020 | Dublin, Ireland
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering
Maharashtra Institute of Technology (University of Pune)
First Class with Distinction
Jun 2013 - May 2017 | Pune, India
Get In Touch
Got a gnarly technical challenge? Want to chat about AI/ML over coffee (virtual or otherwise)? Or maybe you just want to debate whether tabs or spaces are superior? (Spoiler: I'm team spaces, fight me.) Let's connect — I promise I respond faster than my CI/CD pipeline.