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Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

• Worked on Taxi Trajectory Prediction problem – Visualized trajectories on google maps, executed Ramer-Douglas-Peucker algorithm for trajectory smoothing and identified taxi drop off using initial partial trajectories with 80% accuracy.• Utilized AWS EC2 instance to load 80% more data versus local machine.• Increased accuracy by 10% with Random Forest, after comparing performance with SVM and K nearest neighbors• Skills Acquired: Scikit-learn, Pandas, Numpy, SciPy, Seaborn, gmplot, and Matplotlib.

• Guided 200+ students during classroom exercises for Computing Theory and Applied Combinatorics class• Reviewed around 150 students projects, quizzes, codes on linear and non-linear programming and provided feedback for improvement.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

• Moved 5+ clients from on-sight servers to AWS Cloud.• Communicated and set up IAM roles/policies, EC2 and RDS instances for clients and managed them using CloudWatch• Reduced client’s expenditure up to 30% and kept track of it using AWS Cost Explorer• Skills acquired: AWS EC2, Amazon RedShift, VPC, DynamoDB, Cost Explorer, CloudWatch

Stony Brook, Ny, Us

Graph Theory and Applied Combinatorics, Stony Brook University, NY, USA• Major part was helping students with their coursework by holding Office Hours.• Grading their Homework papers and providing feedback and ways to improve.• Planarity, Hamilton Circuits and Euler Cycles, Graph coloring, Trees and its application, Permutations and Combinations.

Worked on education based Apps using Android Studio