Certificate of Appreciation

Executive Program in Strategic Digital Marketing

* Handled social media (Twitter & LinkedIn) for the event. 
* MC for both days in the Kalinga 2 hall - which had more than 500 people in the audience.
* Managed a team of 12 volunteers for crowd control, speaker care and management.

Event Organizer

Teaching Frontend development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and ReactJS) to students who might not even have a technical background at all.

Course Instructor

I spend 7-10 hours a week in helping JavaScript and ReactJS students prepare for job interviews and teaching them fundamental concepts.

Interviewer

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.)

AISSCE (12th grade)

AISSE (10th grade CBSE)

Certificate

Summer Session

I had two major responsibilities as the head of the data science team of the company:
1. Team building
2. Development and delivery of ML features in our application

TEAM BUILDING
* Hiring: Over a period of 8 months, after evaluating 100+ candidates (each with more than a year of experience as a data scientist, after completing studies from one of the IITs), I was able to hire 2 absolute gems as the first data scientists of the company. 
* Culture setting: From the very beginning, my team embodied the characteristic of infinite responsibility. Every person in the team was given a problem that the company is facing and empowered to build a solution to it using all the resources that the company could access.
* Collaboration framework: Our data science team followed the principles of software engineering for collaboration and version controlling in both, the research and development phases of the projects. We used tools like DVC and JupyText to set up the framework with enables us to con

Head of Data Science

As it was a start-up, there were only 7 members in the team. My main responsibility was to create an adaptive learning practice session for the website and manage its databases and back-end code.
• Project Chameleon: Thoroughly studied the development, pros and cons of the mastery-based adaptive learning model of Khan Academy and implemented an algorithm apt for the preparation for competitive examinations (Skills Earned:- CakePHP, PHP, MySQL, Git, OOPS)
• Gamification (Integration with Backend): Integrated the adaptive backend model with the Gamified user interface using AJAX and self-created APIs in CakePHP and JS (Skills Earned:- HTML+CSS, JQuery, AJAX
• Database Designing: Made architectural changes in database to extend the functionality of platform so that
each user can prepare for multiple competitive exams (Skills earned: Database Architecture Proficiency)
• Sales and Product Pitching: Convinced 97 of 120 students to join the SaaS based platform

Product Engineer

As a part of a small team, we experimented with the latest research done by the scientific community on Visual Search (shallow networks, Siamese triplet networks etc.) to suggest the most relevant method & provide an optimized implementation for providing image-based search for e-commerce fashion websites.

Visual Search team

Selected as one of the top 21 candidates, out of around 9000 applicants, for the annual YSI Global program for creating sustainability solutions for achieving United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030.

Fellow

Minimized Risk-weighted Assets (RWAs) for the company by making the allocation optimizer aware about it
• Enhanced the internal engine which recommends collateral allocation to secured funding trades to account for
trade-offs between liquidity considerations (maximizing liquidity) and capital considerations (RWAs)
• Quantified cost savings for the firm if the collateral was allocated to the trades based on the enhanced engine.
Skills Earned: Scalable programming in functional languages, Introductory knowledge in Finance

Summer Analyst

Co-founded InforMED along with Keaton Harris from South Afrika, Marcia Cunha Dos Santos from Brasil and Ishita Aggarwal from Canada for solving the communication problems faced by healthcare practitioners and their patients.

Job responsibilities:
1. App development (created a prototype of the application using Android Studio and an MVP using Ionic Framework)
2. Partnerships and Collaborations (Brought Medallion Social Innovators on board for POC and testing)
3. Executive responsibilities (Company structure, company registration, logistics etc.)
4. Marketing (Focused marketing to relevant individuals in events like Startup Master Class Pune, Social Entrepreneurship and Enterprises (SEE) Central in IIT Kanpur, Google Developers' Group (Pune) DevFest'18 etc.)

Co-Founder

I assumed a tech-generalist role in the company - contributing to website dev (ReactJS), Android dev (Kotlin), Backend dev (Go), Data Science dev (Python), system architecture, CI/CT/CD and org-building.

* Youtube leaderboard on the website for #GetMegaCarromParty:
    - Secondary research and POC of Youtube API (and ways to use it with its given use case)
    - Architecture and implementation of end-to-end delivery of the youtube leaderboard
    - Optimization of code for use in all future Youtube campaigns.
* Onboarding flow optimization:
    - Prioritise idle onboarders and minimize eta if none of the onboarders is idle
* Infrastructure contributions:
    - Active contributions to infra-architecture of Social Arena. This was started as a result of issues created by throughput limitations of DGraph.
    - Some POC and secondary research contributions for feed, messages and notifications in the social product. (GetStream, GetSocial etc.)
* Withdrawal Count Limit:
    - End-to-end imp

Full Stack Engineer

ODF is a selective founders' community (with a 5% selection rate).
As a part of the ODF23 cohort, I met ~100 exceptionally talented, ambitious and brave innovators from across the world. Every person in the cohort had either founded or supported the founding of at least one high impact product.

Fellow (ODF23)

Worked on really cool Artificial Intelligence solutions for various domains, including but not limited to natural language processing, supply-chain optimization, computer vision, time-series predictions etc. Gained exposure to various industry verticals like entertainment, pharmaceuticals, fashion, clinical trials, manufacturing, etc.

Technologies and algorithms used:
1. Python Flask
2. Elastic Search
3. NLTK Python Library
4. Jupyter Notebook
5. Scikit-learn
6. Probabilistic Machine Learning (Markov Chain Model)
7. Pandas (+Numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn etc.)
8. Python OpenCV Library
9. Keras
10. TensorFlow
11. Neural Networks (CNN, LSTM, I-GAN, etc.)
12. ARIMA, Holt-winters
13. Reinforcement Learning
14. Alexa Skills


Sr. Consultant

Initiated the development of ML-powered features for the product of the company. Actively contributed to the backend architecture and development:
* Skill rating system: Implementation of Glicko2 skill rating system. Derivation and implementation of a modified Glicko2 skill rating system which effectively captures the margin of victory in the skill rating.
* Smart matchmaker: Integrated Open-Match with the backend for scalable implementation of smart matchmaking on our platform. Designed and implemented a matchmaking algorithm which considers the skill-rating of the players, waiting time as well as current occupancy on the tables for matchmaking players for 1vN contests which last for several matches and are tolerant to exiting and joining players.
* Automated testing of multi-player matchmaking: Created automated tests for matchmaking which worked by emulating the behaviour of multiple players throughout the game loop (from looking for a match to choosing to exit the table are differe

Back End Developer

First Android developer of the company. Worked directly with the CTO to lay the foundations of the Android app, which was the only front-end of our application. We used the Android Jetpack suite of libraries along with AirBNB's Epoxy library to create a server-controlled UI. Used Firebase for authentication and Firebase Firestore as our working database.

* Developed the payment and purchase modules on the frontend
* Created the 'MegaAnalytics' class which modularized all the client-side analytics code into one, easy-to-use module.
* Wrote the HTML binding module, rich with the power of including currency and other symbols in-line using basic XML tags. Simplified string formatting across the app throughout the life of the company.
* Created the core module for multi-player gameplay as well as matchmaking on our application (designed to work with a Nakama-powered backend game server).
* Contributed to the game-support-lib, which simplifies the game bundle's interactions with the multipl

Android Engineer

* Migrated their entire codebase from Subversion to Git and hosted it on GitLab.
* Integrated e-Doctor services with the e-Mitra platform of the Government of Rajasthan
* Reviewed the company's compliance with the Electronic Health Records (EHR) Standards of India (2016).
* Implemented critical utility features in their service like Skype integration with the website and screen recording of the consultations for quality control

Technology stack: PHP, CodeIgnitor, MySQL, SVN, Ubuntu

Technology Architect

Worked in the research lab in Bangalore (India) for a year.
• Leveraging ICT for Solid Waste Management (SWM) Mar’17-Oct’17
· Explored the SWM infrastructure & implementations for possible technological intervention
· Developed an Android app to track different categories of waste using GSM-based tracking devices in an effort to verify the claims of BBMP and to identify major dumping sites
· Lead the soft-tech solutions’ team at a startup on waste segregation (trashcon.in) for 6 months in 2017
• Joint Query+Resource Optimization Sep’16-Mar’17 · Studied the PerfOrator project and designed a method to combine the optimization steps
· Analyzed hardware modelling for clusters on Azure with HDFS, WASB & ADLS storage options
• Program synthesis Jul’16-Sep’16 Fabricated & implemented an optimized algorithm to find “diamonds” in a query-plan, to replace them by UDFs

Research Fellow

Founder

Tech generalist. Devtools builder.

projects

productHunt

youtube

medium

github

gumroad

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