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Chennai Area, India

Territory Management Console- Led a cross functional team of 8 to design and successfully launch a configurable map based analytical app.- Built data schema & APIs to drive highly configurable data-driven dynamic web page application.- Developed map based algorithm to cluster large data points, locate kNN and find geo-territory of coordinates.- Increased user acquisition by 3X and user engagement by 2X.HR Management System- Spearheaded the development and migration of the app to the client's cloud environment.- Product is widely used by the HR team and 18,000 employees.- Reduced the employee onboarding process from 2 days to 5 minutes.Health Tracker, Contact Tracing App- Architected a highly scalable solution to handle 200K+ users a day with burst usage patterns.- Led the war room under high pressure to deliver in rapid response to Covid-19 pandemic.Hiring - Head of the software engineering panel for onboarding and evaluating new engineers.Tech adoption - Pivotal in evaluation and adoption of the company's next-gen tech stack, introducing GraphQL and serverless architecture.Awards - Awarded the Crayon Leap award for exceptional technical expertise, cross-functional collaboration and exemplary achievement in performance.

Singapore

Worked as lead engineer on financial systems for Housing Development Board (HDB) - Singapore Designed the architecture that provides a communication channel between third party applications and HDB backend. Previously HDB staff had to be physically present in the office to input information into backend systems. This project enables them to instantaneously update information through a secure interface. Optimized the page load performance of Purchase Order portal from 50s to 2s. Took initiative to analyse the data bottlenecks and worked on effective retrieval of data - Javascript, HTML, SQL.Provided key insights based on data analysis of clients past 7 years of financial data - SQL.Took ownership of multiple components and implemented them end-to-end from gathering requirements to user acceptance testing. Mentoring associate software engineers; Conduct multiple training sessions for HDB Staff.Building financial reporting tools using SAP Enterprise Software.

Singapore

CS2010 - Data Structures and Algorithms 2 Assisted in the teaching of Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms course - Java.Contribution includes mentoring students in programming concepts, preparing weekly assignments and leading discussion sessions

Singapore

Built a powerful next generation utility in AutoCAD Electrical - C++, ObjectARX and OpenCV library.The utility automatically converts circuit image to electrical schema in AutoCAD.Provided an accuracy of 85%. Incentivised more users to adopt AutoCAD Electrical.Developed an algorithm to detect horizontal and vertical texts simultaneously enhancing the product's feature set - C++.Collaborated with the UX team and enhanced user experience of AutoCAD electrical - MFC.Trained tesseract (open source software) for different fonts in order to increase the accuracy of text recognition by 10% - C++.

Singapore

Built a desktop application for shipping container number recognition with 80% accuracy - C#, OCR.Worked closely with co-founders to design and implement the full software stack.With the help of heuristics further increased the accuracy by 10%.