Bhushan Ladde

Bhushan Ladde

Senior Software Engineer · Data Infrastructure & Distributed Systems

Folsom, CA · San Francisco Bay Area, CA

bhushanladde02@gmail.com · +1 916 477 5226

linkedin.com/in/bhushanladde · github.com/bhushanladde02

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About Me

Career Objective :-

A senior backend or data platform role, designing reliable large-scale systems in Python and Java.

Professional Summary :-

  • 13+ years of backend and data systems in Python and Java.
  • Led Nielsen's Exposure Matching System: 25M+ records in 30 min.
  • Own pipelines end to end, from design to incident response.
  • Opened a new revenue line; cut $2M+ a year in cost.
  • From embedded Linux and TCP/IP to cloud-scale data.

Highlights :-

25M+ records matched per run in 30 min
$2M+ a year in operating cost removed
99.9% uptime through 4× traffic spikes
100+ analysts on self-service data
50,000+ users on BARCO's device platform
1st ACM Programming Contest, 2016 & 2017

Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer, Nielsen Holdings | Mar 2022 – Jul 2026

  • Led a 3-pipeline matching system on Airflow: 25M+ records in 30 min.
  • DAG design for parallelism and few retries; SLA held as volume grew.
  • Self-service analytics on S3, OLAP and Parquet for 100+ analysts.
  • Ingestion at 99.9% uptime through 4× traffic spikes.
  • Opened a new revenue line; cut $2M+ a year in operating cost.
  • Brought Claude Code and Copilot to the team; Copper & Silver Awards.

Stack: Python, Airflow, AWS S3, Parquet, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, Java

Software Engineer II, BARCO | Oct 2018 – Mar 2022

  • Device management platform: 50,000+ users at 99.8% availability.
  • TCP/IP messaging across global fleets: −20% troubleshooting time.
  • Linux drivers; cooling control +15% efficiency, −12% power.

Stack: C++, Java, embedded Linux, TCP/IP, Qt

Software Engineering Intern, KPMG · BARCO · Sacramento County | Jan 2016 – Aug 2018

  • KPMG: AI helpdesk chatbot (NLP/LLM), −20% support tickets.
  • BARCO: design-validation tool, −20% review time.

Stack: Java, Python, NLP

Staff Consultant, Oracle Financial Services | Aug 2014 – Dec 2015

  • Mobile banking integration on Oracle FlexCube for First Global Bank.
  • Banking modules: $1M+ a day at 99.99% accuracy; +5% throughput.

Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Oracle 11g, WebLogic

Associate Consultant, Bristlecone (Mahindra) | Aug 2013 – Aug 2014

  • Mahindra dealer and inventory platforms: −70% manual processing.
  • Java microservices and REST APIs; Star Performer Award, 2013.

Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Struts, SQL Server

Software Engineer, SNE Engineers | Jan 2012 – Aug 2013

  • Real-time water network monitoring on a GIS map, with alerts.
  • Epanet modelling, BIRT reports, Spring Security with LDAP.

Stack: Java, Spring MVC, C#, MySQL

Projects

  • BotSpotter — live map and counter of AI bots crawling the web (live · Oct 2026 – present, botspotter.app, github.com/bhushanladde02/botspotter) – Open-source, all-Python real-time pipeline that detects AI crawlers and agents (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and unidentified automation) from a crowd-sourced network of website sensors, gives each bot a deterministic name that persists across every site, classifies it as training / search / agent, and streams it to a live world map. Privacy-first: no IPs stored, cookieless visitor counting. Runs on free tiers, with a growth plan tied to numeric triggers. [FastAPI + Granian/uvloop ingest, Redpanda (Kafka), asyncio aggregator, Redis counters + HyperLogLog, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, MapLibre, Docker Compose on Oracle Cloud]
  • Sharpen (live, sharpenscore.com) – Open-source AI profile: a monthly report and a 0–100 score for how you work with AI. [Java 21, Spring Boot, Thymeleaf, PostgreSQL, Docker, Oracle Cloud, GitHub Actions]
  • touchpath (live, touchpath.onrender.com) – Open-source multi-touch attribution engine. [Python, Sphinx, Render]
  • Recovery Routes (in progress) – Free service mapping every lawful route to money a consumer is owed. [Java 21, Spring Boot, PostgreSQL]
  • SPY swing-trading bot (running) – Rules-based trading automation with scheduled runs and reports. [Python, Oracle Cloud]
  • Chrome Summarizer (shipped) – AI extension that summarizes the page you're reading. [JavaScript, Claude Code]
  • AI Chatbot Agent (shipped) – Assistant for routine customer-service tasks. [Java, NLP, GitHub Copilot]

Technical Skills

Languages
Python, Java / J2EE, C++, C#, SQL, JavaScript / TypeScript, Bash
Data
Apache Airflow, ETL/ELT, Parquet, MDL OLAP, batch processing, Kafka / Redpanda, stream processing
Backend
Spring Boot, Spring MVC / JPA / Security, Hibernate, REST, SOAP, GraphQL, FastAPI
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
Databases
PostgreSQL, Oracle 11g, SQL Server, MySQL, Redis, TimescaleDB
AI
Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, LLM apps and agents, Gemini, ChatGPT
Quality & ops
Pytest, JUnit, TDD, Datadog, SLA monitoring

Education & Awards

Qualification | University / College | Year | Result
M.S. Computer Science | California State University, Sacramento | 2018 | GPA 3.65
B.E. Computer Engineering | University of Pune (K.K. Wagh COE, Nashik) | 2011 | GPA 3.5

Awards & Certifications

  • Copper Award, Nielsen Holdings (2025)
  • Silver Award, Nielsen Holdings (2022)
  • 1st place, ACM Programming Contest, Graduate Division (2016, 2017)
  • Hacktech.io winner, indoor location mapping (2014)
  • Star Performer Award, Bristlecone (Mahindra Group) (2013)
  • Oracle Certified Java Programmer

Declaration

I hereby declare that the information given above is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Place: Folsom

Date: Oct 2026

Bhushan Ladde

(Bhushan Ladde)

Cover Note

Dear Hiring Manager,

You have made it to the last page — patience like that deserves a good engineer. Let me introduce one.

For 13+ years I've built systems that must be right and on time: 25M+ records matched before a 30-minute deadline, $1M+ a day of banking at 99.99% accuracy, and software running on 50,000+ devices around the world.

What I'll bring :-

  • Pipelines that finish before the coffee does.
  • Failure cases designed in first, not patched in later.
  • Ownership from the first design doc to the 2 a.m. alert.
  • AI in my toolkit, judgement in my hands.

If your data has a deadline, I'd love to hear about it.

Warm regards,

Bhushan Ladde

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