Kaushik Pal Email & Phone Number

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Designed a microservice-based business-critical orchestration platform, by leveraging various AWS serverless services, for a leading content and entertainment company in the Asia-Pacific region.
• Implemented various microservices in Node.js, viz. authentication, data ingestion & content search services.
• Modelled schemas for the data-layer which included AWS DynamoDB tables & ElasticSearch indices.
• Communicated with product owners & other architects to help translate the key strategic vision into new roadmaps and designs.
• Mentored and supported the software engineering team.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Designed the user-experience of Datalake Access Management Portal for one of the world's largest biotech company, which helped automate their administration workflow & fast-track it from days to minutes.
• Created the visual designs for the web-application using Adobe XD.
• Implemented the portal UI single-handedly, using AngularJS.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Led a team of 11 members in delivering the AWS cloud foundation for a IoT-based project, for a major general contractor in Japan.
• Implemented agile methodologies by driving the phase/sprint planning, daily status meetings and leveraging tools like JIRA.
• Managed project timelines and regularly reported progress to the client and the internal management.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Contributed to develop TCS Cognitive Digital Desk, a multi-tenant chat-bot platform for service desk use-cases.
• Implemented the back-end of the platform as microservices in Node.js.
• Designed various conversation flows, and realized them by coding dialogs of the Microsoft Bot Framework.
• Integrated Azure cognitive services viz. LUIS, QnA Maker, Speech and service desk tools viz. ServiceNow, Twilio.
• Built a responsive Chatbot UI and the Admin-portal UI in AngularJS.

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Defined & analyzed KPIs to evaluate the performance of an operations team, involved in maintenance of multiple applications of a world-leading media and entertainment company.
• Prepared periodic operational reports that helped the management in taking decisions on improving delivery.
• Performed data wrangling in R & MS Excel. Reports were prepared using MS PowerPoint.

• Pursued M.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering (esp. Analytics &. Data Sciences) from NIT Rourkela

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Contributed in developing native & hybrid iOS apps (Objective-C) for various finance & media clients.
• Contributed in developing web UIs using HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery for various finance & retail clients.
• Underwent training in Java & Informatica, as part of the TCS Initial Learning Program.

Raurkela, Orissa, India

• Worked on Human Emotion Recognition Using Physiological Signals, based on k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) and Hidden Markov Model (HMM) classifiers, using MATLAB.
• Undertook various data-science courses viz. ML, recommendation systems, information retrieval, etc.
• Taught C-programming & Python to 100+ students per batch in 2 semesters, which helped cultivate the ability to breakdown complex theories in ways which could be easily understood.

Master Of Technology (M.Tech.), Analytics And Decision Sciences

Activities and Societies: - • Teaching Assistant • Designer of the Postgraduate Yearbook 2017 • Photographer at Third Eye Photography Club

Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering