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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Mountain View, California, United States

Product and Content Personalization teams - building large scale applications and services (Java, SpringBoot, Apollo Federation GQL, Kubernetes, GCS, Python) to deploy state of the art ML models (Deep Neural Network, Gradient Boosting Decision Trees, Transformer Network, LLMs) to power recommendations and provide personalized experiences to end users (~33M) at various touch points (homepage, marketing/targeted emails, PDP, carousels, etc.)

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Course Assistant for CS 425 / ECE 428 - Distributed Systems. Hold substantial knowledge in the following domains (but not limited to) - Fault Tolerance, Failure Detection, Map Reduce, Stream Processing (Spark processing), Consensus (Paxos and Raft), Leader Election, Remote Procedural Call (RPC) Marshalling and Concurrency Control, P2P systems (eg: Chord (Distributed Hash Table), Pastry, Gnutella, Kelips, Knapster, BitTorrent), Key Value stores/NoSQL(CassandraDB, Bloom Filters), Multicast Communication, Mutual Election, Distributed File system

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Engaged in a wide array of frontend and backend tasks, with a pivotal focus on modernizing Wayfair's logistics infrastructure by transitioning away from the legacy CastleGate Forwarding framework - NaviOS. This proprietary system facilitated seamless logistics operations, spanning from global factories to end customers across North America and Europe. Leveraged SQLAlchemy in a consumable format by defining database models as classes which were used to build GraphQL mutations and queries to facilitate efficient data retrieval and manipulation. Engineered input components using ReactJS that interacted with these GraphQL mutations, ensuring a responsive user interface while maintaining data consistency and integrity standards.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Developed a metrics page for internal use at John Deere Financial using ReactJS, NodeJS, and PostgreSQL.Performing Natural Language Processing, using Python libraries, to filter incident descriptions, on the internal metrics page, through a search engine.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Used SpringBoot based Java Applications to parse and store incoming data from the client side and fix critical issues on the backendCreated an Address Approval Dashboard for about 30 companies through API’s and Azure SCIM by writing microservices in SpringBoot. Hosted these microservices on Docker Collaborated with senior software engineers to work on a project that caters to the hybrids workspace needs of employees. (https://www.workinsync.io/)

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Collaborated with a team of undergraduate students to create an IOS application that efficiently connects students with complementary skills to form agile teams towards a common goal. Worked closely with mentors in order to create an app which enables freelance developers to join open-source projects using an interface similar to Tinder.

Champaign, Illinois, United States

1. Developed an android application that allows students to browse Computer Science courses offered by the university and rate the professors.2. Developed an IOS application that allows people to plan their travel by allowing them to search for flights, destinations, and hotels along with generating an itinerary based on their places of interest 3. Developed a web application, typically for the students of UIUC, that provides an implementation of a Tinder-like app in which: - prospective hosts can submit party proposals to everyone on the app, complete with tags (e.g.Diwali party, game night, rager) - prospective attendees can swipe left or right on submitted party proposals to indicate their attendance.4. Formulated a mobile application for android operating systems which allows users to efficiently manage their refrigerators by identifying items present in the fridge. It helps users keep a current count on the quantity of items and also notifies the user when they need to restock an item. The app also provides recipes that one can follow with the items available in the refrigerator at that instant.

University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

Assisted students (over 200) in computational Python lab sections(Numpy), and hosted office hours for Python, NumPy and concepts related to Linear Algebra. Tested course projects and assignments before their release.

Champaign County, Illinois, United States

Contributed to ILLIXR – the first fully open-sourced Extended Reality (XR) system and testbed Set up Continuous Integration/Development framework on Jenkins to onboard and support ILLIXR onto Jenkins CI/CD pipeline.Performed Advanced Graphical Testing on ILLIXR using Qemu and Virgl

University Of Illinois

Developed assignments, labs, exam questions, and test suites in Java and Kotlin Hosted office hours to help students learn Java and Kotlin, programming, and general computer science concepts Tested/solved student assignments before its official release

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Co founded an organisation that primarily focuses on bringing about an environmental change through the process of composting

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

1. Co-founder of ‘Tech Key,’ the student-run ‘Technology Enthusiasts Club’ and growing it to a 50 member strong club2. In-charge of all the marketing efforts for the club, including building the Instagram page, making creatives and brochures, and viral promotions3. Worked on bringing in speakers and guests for speaker events in the club and created modules for the learning events of the club4. Handled operations of the club, which included the interview and selection of core committee members and convening the inaugural meeting of the club5, Facilitated succession planning through the development of a prospectus for Tech Key and planned future club events

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science, 4.0 Gpa

Artificial Intelligence

Professional development course to develop fine grained knowledge of advanced deep learning techniques and the structure, function.

High School Diploma, Icse - 96%, Isc - 95%