Abhaya Rawal

e. abhaya@hey.com
t. +31 6 42 20 61 57
w. www.abhaya.me

EXPERIENCE

Reaktor | Developer
Amsterdam | Feb. 2020 - Current

Stink Studios | Engineering Generalist
Brooklyn | Feb. 2017 - Jan. 2020

Started at Stink Studios in 2017 as a New Graduate Hire. In the following years, worked on a diverse set of creative and technical projects with-

Google
  • Google Cloud Network showcase demo (WebGL w/ Three.JS, custom particle rendering system)
  • Interactive Google Cloud Platform architecture learning experience (RxJS, Pixi.JS, Immutable JS, TypeScript, XState) with a level creating/editing CMS pipeline
  • Google x Pride #ShowUp 2017 (Python)
  • Google x Lynching in America (PHP)
Wall Street Journal
  • Engineered a full fledged web based template designer & editor for Wall Street Journal (React, Redux, Immutable, PHP)
Stonewall
  • Web based interactive WebGL monument for Stonewall Forever (Python, JavaScript)
Spotify
  • Spotify for Brands and Spotify for Education full dot com builds (Python, Clojure, JavaScript)
Chobani
  • Chobani full rebrand and dot com build (Clojure, JavaScript)
  • Photoshop & Illustrator plugins for automated workflow (JavaScript)
YouTube
  • YouTube Ads Leaderboard achievement celebration page for winners (JavaScript)
Thomas Keller Surf Club Restaurant
  • Custom Squarespace dot com for Thomas Keller's newest restaurant
Internal
  • R&D'd a middleware that dynamically built GraphQL bindings for any data source, compiled queries into JSON files, and built outputs to GCS or S3; featured delta update pushes, version control, local cache, CSP based concurrency (Clojure, Vue, RabbitMQ, Redis, DataScript, MongoDB)
  • Developed a custom JS-esque language parser for rapid reformatting of API data (Clojure, Instaparse)

EDUCATION

Louisiana Tech University
Sept 2012 - Dec 2016
BSc in Computer Science w/ concentration in Graphics & Game Design and Cloud Computing & Big Data.

AREA OF INTEREST

Continually research and experiment with the latest tools & platforms (ReasonML, Logic programming, AI programming w/ Neural Networks, ClojureScript, Elm, Elixir, 3DS Max, ZBrush, UE4 et al.) to stay ahead of the curve; routinely conduct discussion sessions to relay these findings to the peers.

Active Projects
  • Learning all about real time rendering (mostly focused on WebGL)