Urvish Thakker

Urvish Thakker is a dedicated software engineer with diverse experience in both industry and academia. Currently employed at Tiny Fish Inc. since August 2023, Urvish previously worked at Longtail Technologies, where major contributions included introducing an in-memory caching mechanism that improved runtime by 35% and reducing deployment time by 25%. While serving as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University, Urvish mentored over 80 students in distributed systems and networking protocols. Other notable experiences include a software engineering internship at Palo Alto Networks, a machine learning research internship at ISRO, and a data science internship with the Indian Navy. Urvish holds a Master's degree in Management Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor's degree in Information Technology from Nirma University.