Praneeth A. Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on the Alexa API team (ACRS), which is charge of hosting the cloud-side logic for communication with Alexa devicesDesigned and built cloud application to decrypt sensitive data sent in Alexa API requests for debugging purposes using AWS CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, Route 53, and Java (decreased decryption time from 10 min to 10 sec)Developed React browser extension that adds a visualization of the ACRS workflow in API request logs to decrease time spent debugging with Alexa event and directive logs by 50%

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the ride-sharing industry and identified changes in driver/rider behaviorDetermined the relative magnitude of the induced demand/supply shocks using a dataset of 152 million trips from Uber, Lyft, etc.Developed algorithms using robust linear regression and Python Pandas to identify the surge multiplier for a given trip and analyze the change in the usage of surge pricing before and after the pandemic

Built a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and online platform (www.peerlift.org) with 85K users that makes high school opportunities (scholarships, internships, etc.) more accessible to low income and first-generation studentsProgrammed the platform using HTML, Javascript, and SCSS, currently refactoring to use Node.js and React.jsDesigned mySQL database structure and used PHP to query data; integrated with AWS Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, and S3

Philadelphia, Pa

Implemented an automated system to identify healthcare companies for a $500 million private equity firmDeveloped three web-scraping algorithms in order to efficiently identify over 10,000 healthcare services, medical technologies, and specialty therapeutics that would be of interest to 1315 Capital

Designed and developed an Android & iOS mobile application that can be used by hotel owners to access key performance indexes to make intelligent decisions about their businessUsers can approve/reject bills and access their hotel bank balances, account payables and income statements for specific time period

Philadelphia

Spent over 1500 hours designing and programming a product/website through which any nonprofit can transparently collect and manage donations, publicize projects, and track various bank accounts’ income and expenditure.Donors are able to view the various projects of the organization, donate to one that seems appealing to them through Paypal, and see exactly where their money is going/what it is being used forCreated the platform using Java Servlets, JSP, MySQL, and BootstrapHas helped raise over $500,000 for various service projects to develop rural villages in India.

Bse - Computer Science, Bs - Business Analytics (Wharton), Jerome Fisher Program In Management & Technology

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Analytics

Education record

Activities and Societies: Harvard Club Prize, Cum-Laude Society, Cameron Impact Scholarship Finalist, National Merit Scholar, National AP.