University of California, Irvine

Bachelors of Science, Computer Science
Computer Networks Specialization
Dean's Honor List: 4 Quarters
(Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Fall 2018, Winter 2019)

INDmoney (FINTECH - STARTUP)

Funded by Tiger Global, Steadview Capital and Dragoneer Investment

• Spearheaded the construction and implementation of a Kafka based data streaming service which enables real-time data processing and alerts to users. Served real-time notifications to over 200 thousand users.
• Developed and automated actionable financial advisories using Java, Kafka, and Spring Boot application to enable users to save and earn money.
• Enhanced and revamped existing systems to support data streaming between services to overhaul the current system and make it more reliable and reduce latency.
• Implemented technologies like DynamoDB, SQS, Lambdas and Redshift into the current architecture stack to enhance and revamp existing system.
• Built a custom Kafka connector to stream data from Debizium to SQS. This helped the company set-up automated communication based on Database changes and decoupled communications from backed applications completely.
• Constructed an internal system to send automated and scheduled communications to users with an easy to use interface which reduced the time for sending 1 communication from 5-6 hours down to 10mins. This helped the company grow 5x in its DAU (Daily Average Users) numbers.
• Led and mentored a team of 3 software engineers and followed Agile programming ideology to push out new cutting edge products at a fast pace utilized for both internal company functions and user facing products.

Adobe Systems, Inc

• Co-led a research project on explaining the behavior of black box machine learning models through human interpretable rules.
• Refined the interpretability using Machine Learning algorithm like Lime, Genetic Algorithm, a post-processing algorithm and used different Ablation studies to strengthen the approach
• Drafted and designed Uncertainty Analysis to analyze the quality of rules produced.
• Wrote 2 research papers submitted to A-star conferences in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence along with my supervisors

University of California, Irvine

INTERNATIONAL STUDENT EXCELLENCE PROGRAM

• Supervised 5 peer mentors, and monitored their performance in the organization.
• Clearly and promptly communicated information between administrative staff and Student staff through monthly reports.
• Encouraged staff to work efficiently and responsibly by teaching techniques of Time Management and providing good mentoring.
• Recognized for outstanding work with Mentor of the Month (October 2017)
• Mentored 10 incoming international students to attain academic excellence by guiding them on how to study efficiently and problem solve.
• Organized one-on-ones’ and acted as a guide to refer them to resources on campus and relevant workshops.

Infinite Analytics

• Initiated and designed projects to enable automated Facebook marketing using Facebook marketing API and Flask framework in python to make UI and C++ script to read and analyze trends in data to choose target audience.
• Built a UI based crawlers to extract product catalogs from clients’ website using Scrapy and crawling Spiders. This helped consolidate data from multiple data source to a single easy to read data stream.
• Improved data representation with map graphs and geographic data points using google maps API and Python scrips.