Arjun Hegde Email & Phone Number

Plantation, Florida, US

Chewy Auth team

Richardson, TX, US

• Led a team to develop an Android library that uses Machine Learning and Augmented Reality tocreate an immersive and interactive experience to guide users through AR
• Improved the FPS from 30 to 54 by optimizing the YoloV3 detection algorithm to reduce the number of pixels processed
• Gamifying the whole experience by extensive usage of transformation matrices, keeping users engaged till the end

• Implementing an AR platform (Unity3D C#) on Microsoft HoloLens for medical interview practice experience that enables a medical student to interview a virtual standardized patient (VSP) aided by a remote human expert
• Improved the response rate for longer sentence by 40% by optimizing and converting the audio data received from the microphone to WAV bytes, then used to communicate with the virtual patient via Google Speech-to-Text API
• Integrated an NLP Question Answering model, and deployed it as a Flask application which has an accuracy of 92%
• Video streaming and querying every nth frame to Azure Custom Vision to recognize an object and storing its displacement from a spatial anchor
• Our product outperformed VR by 2.75 percent and monitor-based reality by 15 percent in quality of interface factor
• Developed a Unity plugin to help developers to debug AR applications which increased the efficiency from 1 hour of work to few seconds

• Developed a VR ( Unity3D, C#) for police training which brings about a significant change in traditional police training
• Implemented hand tracking using Leap Motion on a full-body avatar, in-place movement (forward and backward direction) using leg trackers, and character interactions via behavior trees and procedural animations like.
• Producing actions like opening the door, changing the weapon from the holster and made the platform as immersive as possible by including finger tracking using Leap Motion, which made an impact to expand the business.
• Formulated a method to detect the in-place leg movement detection and improved the accuracy to 98%
• Enhanced the immersive experience for the police officers by intuitive interaction and smooth locomotion to avoid sickness

Hyderabad, Telangana, IN

• Collaborated with a data science research startup group and developed an android application to gather user data using Firebase DB, BroadcastReceiver, Services, and UsageStatsManager, and performed supervised learning.

Udupi, Karnataka, IN

• I worked on the flagship project of the company called "Star Chef - The Cooking game". It has garnered over 5 million downloads on Google Play Store.
• Worked with a team to develop an Isometric 2D game Star Chef: Cooking and Restaurant game using Unity3D C#
• Improved the complexity of the AI for NPCs to find the shortest path to the nearest unfilled table using A* algorithm from O(V^2) to O(E log(V)) and added other features like networking, weighted random selection.
• Implement game functionality using Unity3d as per the planned design
• Communicate with other team members to establish effective pipeline and integrate media assets
• Integrated Analytics tools and services

San Francisco, California, US

• Worked for huge renowned clients to provide them mobility solutions.
• Implemented an Android application incorporating MVP architecture using Java for a renowned Indian media company
• Delivered an application which incorporates FFmpeg to encode the livestreaming data to H264 codec and push to nginx server using RTMP protocol, which is then transcoded to DASH, making the stream accessible for.
• Delivered a library which includes swipeable card stack and Google’s Exoplayer (DASH adaptive bit streaming)
• Enhanced the database read/write performance 3 times by replacing SQLite with RealmDB along with APK splitting which resulted in 25% reduction in APK size
• Translated network calls from manual threads handling to Retrofit and RxJava reactive extensions

San Francisco, California, US

• Conceptualized, and developed a PoC digital menu Android application which involves real-time, bi-directional, the event-based communication for effective status tracking between patrons and the chefs
• Mounted a serverless REST API in NodeJS with DynamoDB, Amazon Lambda and API Gateway which ensures AWS to dynamically manage the allocation resources, and reduce the cost
• Developed a tool using Python to help export language translations from CSV file to strings.xml which decreased manual labor by 80%

Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

• Cash Management platform developed using Java, Spring, Hibernate, ElasticSearch, and RabbitMQ
• Used JUnit and Mockito to implement tests in the application and improve code efficiency
• Increased throughput by 200% and the system was able to handle all transactions smoothly

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

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