Raj Sunku Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Front End Software Engineer

Issaquah, Washington, United States

- Worked on an individual project to present to 100+ developers and managers to test new technologies that could improve Costco Travel- Utilized Java, Rest APIs, and a custom Spring Boot microservice with jBPM to automate business processes such as hotel bookings to remove 200 weekly man-hours from our agents and jumpstart a vendor portal to create accounts for 1000+ of unique hotels that can save $400K/year- Participated in daily stand-ups as well as biweekly sprint planning and retrospective meetings with a team of 7

- Worked in a multidisciplinary group of 7 people to complete a research project and present it to stakeholders- Utilized Unreal Engine 5 to create a project in the Metaverse to generate a digital depiction of Gandhi that a user can speak to and receive realistic dialogue, voice, facial expressions, and body movements from a custom-made Gandhi model- Fine-tuned an OpenAI ChatGPT model for Gandhi-like dialogue generation, used Whisper to convert speech to text in Python, and implemented all of the features into a pipeline with UDP to connect to Unreal Engine/C++ Blueprints

- Collaborated with 2 other developers to complete open-source projects in the Play framework to make accessible software- Implemented device authentication utilizing Scala and Python with SQLite and Cassandra databases to create and store JWT tokens for user sessions and appropriately edit the databases when a session is over through the decoded tokens- Upgraded Apache Spark data pipelining to allow users to make custom streams and transformations in both Scala and Python through py4j so that they can create large-scale IoT Machine Learning models for 1000s of possible applications

- Developed a multi-platform recipe-sharing application that utilized Dart in the Flutter Framework using Android Studio- Created a JSON parsing algorithm to take in requests from a web server and generate custom recipe pages with embedded links, images, and videos, which were stored in a local Firebase database when liked by the user- Added search functionality that displayed results in a recycling list view to optimize memory utilization of the application

- Built a website that calculates mortgage/refinance payments to visualize them in a graph for users to make financial decisions- Customized and operated the website backend through WordPress, and utilized NinjaForms widget to gather user information- Employed the use of JavaScript to create visualizations, and CSS/HTML alongside widgets to design the UI of the page

Seattle, Washington, United States

- Trained under industry professionals- Calculated the price of large projects in mock bids- Designed a bike and kayak shop using SketchUp modeling software

- Taught struggling elementary and middle schoolers math- Prepared students for math competitions, such as the Math Kangaroo