Kiron Deb

Kiron Deb

About Me

Hi, I'm Kiron! I'm a software engineer on the Ads Monetization team at Duolingo. I recently graduated from Johns Hopkins with a B.S in Computer Science. I enjoy building software to help people, and occasionally create apps that improve my quality of life.

I spend my free time reading tech news, getting excited about new up-and-coming startups, reading fiction, working out, and playing pickleball / volleyball / table tennis.

Projects

Regenerate Word Embeddings GitHub Action

Regenerate Word Embeddings

GitHub Action to regenerate OpenAI word embeddings and store them in a Supabase vector store via LangChain. Useful if you have a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) system and want to update the word embeddings automatically when the knowledge base changes

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HLTV Rating Breakdown

HLTV Rating Breakdown

Model to deduce the most important factors for a CS:GO player's performance rating

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Tweet Scraper

Tweet Scraper

Jupyter Notebook to search for tweets by keywords and minimum number of likes

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Recommendations

John Bush

Senior Automation Engineer, Duolingo

It is my pleasure to strongly recommend Kiron Deb as a software engineer. My name is John Bush, a Senior Automation Engineer at Duolingo. I had the distinct pleasure of hosting Kiron during his internship over the summer of 2024. Kiron worked with me as part of the Developer Infrastructure team to help build internal tooling and automation for the entire engineering organization. During this period I was able to work closely with Kiron and experience his work ethic and technical skills firsthand.

One of the things that most impressed me working with Kiron was his technical expertise. He was able to take a minimal project specification and turn it into a working product in a matter of weeks. This included implementing a web-based frontend and building automation to generate backend data. Furthermore, Kiron also identified several shortcomings in the initially proposed tech stack and made solid recommendations on how to pivot in order to achieve the desired results.

Kiron also show-cased remarkable communication skills and a high degree of self-sufficiency. While working on his summer projects he would communicate frequently with stakeholders to better understand use-cases in order to provide top-tier deliverables. In the event there was a blocker he would clearly articulate the challenge and provide multiple potential solutions for consideration. In addition to his excellent verbal communication, Kiron's thorough documentation and write-ups have received praise from several other engineers.

In summary, I am confident that Kiron would be a great fit for any team. The enthusiasm and technical skills he brings are a boon to any organization. He is a hard worker and someone who embraces new challenges.

Michelle Shiho Schafer

Engineering Manager & Program Architect, IBM

I had the privilege of being Kiron's manager at Mac@IBM in the summer of 2023. During this time, I was consistently impressed by Kiron's proactive approach to learning and problem-solving. He took the initiative to engage with every team member, gaining a holistic understanding of our Mac-based IT program. His standout project involved developing a Java app that seamlessly integrated data from Apple into our MDM solution. This challenging project has real-world impact and is being used in our production environment. His contribution is estimated to save over 70 hours of valuable time annually. The app that he developed was also extensively documented and showcased across IBM, demonstrating not only Kiron's technical aptitude, but his exceptional communication skills as well. Kiron's proactive learning, technical aptitude, and collaborative nature makes him a remarkable asset. I highly recommend Kiron for his exceptional abilities as a developer and I firmly believe he will excel in any project he takes on.

Harrison Dimmig

Senior Software Engineer, Vontive

I had the pleasure of being Kiron's team lead and mentor during his co-op with Vontive's back-office oriented engineering team from January - May 2023. I was immediately impressed by the speed with which he ramped up his understanding of our repositories and infrastructure, how they connect, and the business features and end users they support. A true self-starter, Kiron consistently ensured his understanding of the work and delivery of extra polish on the features he took on. I was pleased to watch his self-confidence and curiosity grow throughout, taking the initiative to work with Product to directly discuss requirements with stakeholders, as well as to answer Q&A and conduct training on his features.

Three months in, Kiron was trusted to lead the technical implementation of a priority product rollout impacting four departments, which succeeded with his clear communication, coordination, and on-time delivery. In his final month, Kiron owned the technical relationship with a new partner, interfacing daily with their CTO, providing feedback on their API and actionable updates to our own CTO helping steer planning and further resource allocation.

I am confident that Kiron will excel at any project he chooses to, given his effective combination of both technical and soft skills, and look forward to the opportunity to work with him again in the future.