Resume
Work Experience
Siemens Corporate Technology - Princeton, NJ
Research Professional, April 2018 - Present
Research, primarily into Spoken Dialog Systems and their possible applications for Siemens products and services
Assisting Siemens’ Business Units with Software Architecture and Testing issues, including performing architecture and code reviews and new development to meet business goals
Deloitte Support Services - Hyderabad, India
Analyst, July 2013 – July 2016
Developed and provided support/enhancements to various SAP applications for the firm’s finance division
Managed and administrated the team’s SharePoint site
Led a team of 8 people that handled the onboarding of new hires into the company
Honeywell - Bengaluru, India
Intern - Android Developer, January 2013 – June 2013
Developed a companion Android application for Honeywell’s Home Automation system that functioned via speech recognition
Provided a novel method to improve speech recognition rates
Helped in adapting the Android application to Honeywell’s UI guidelines
Education
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York | Buffalo, NY | GPA - 3.81/4
Master of Science in Computer Science | December 2017
Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal University | Manipal, India | GPA - 8.16/10
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science | May 2013
Technical Skills
| Proficiency | Skill |
|---|---|
| Proficient | Java, Android Development |
| Intermediate | Python, SQL, Linux/CLI, Shell Scripting, Git, Maven |
| Basic | C/C++, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, React.js, R, Jenkins, Solr, Hadoop, Spark |
Academic Projects
- Question Answering System Developed a basic question answering system hosted on Amazon Web Services using Solr, Python and spaCy for NLP, which used Twitter data to provide concise answers to questions on a specific topic
- Song Lyrics Generation using LSTMs Explored song lyrics generation by training an LSTM network using Keras on a dataset of an artist’s songs. The resultant network was used to generate novel lyrics.
- Distributed Key-Value Store An Android application in Java to simulate a Distributed System similar to Amazon’s Dynamo which enables storing information in Key-Value pairs with partition, replication and machine failure handling
- Disparity Maps for Stereo Vision Wrote Python scripts to generate Disparity Maps using SSD (Sum of squared differences) and implemented a dynamic programming approach from the paper ‘A Maximum Likelihood Stereo Algorithm’
- Word Co-occurrence using Hadoop Used Hadoop to perform word co-occurrence (n-grams) on tweets as well as a collection of large documents and plotted the performance as n was varied
- Inverted Index and Boolean query processing Using Java and Lucene API
Created an inverted index from a given Lucene index and implemented term-at-a-time and document-at-a-time strategies to retrieve Boolean query results