Shashank

Hi! I'm Shashank

Programmer, Developer, Coder, Tinkerer and Computer Geek!

Let's work with data!

New York, NY

I started studying at Columbia University this Fall, pursuing an M.S degree in Data Science.

I previously worked as a Software Engineer on remote access tools and techniques for Citrix India Research & Development at Bengaluru.

I graduated from R.V. College of Engineering in 2014, successfully obtaining my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

As an undergraduate intern, I worked on Big Data technologies at PayPal India.

Education

Columbia

Columbia University

M.S in Data Science - 2016-2017 (Expected)

  • Data Science Institute.
  • Courses:
    • Probability and Statistics
    • Algorithms for Data Science
    • Statistical Inference and Modelling
  • Expected Core Courses:
    • Machine Learning
    • Exploratory Data Analysis and Visualization
    • Computer Systems for Data Science


RVCE

R.V College of Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering - 2010-2014

  • Dept. of Computer Science
  • Received 9th Rank for academic performance
  • GPA: 3.99/4.0 (WES) or 9.64/10
  • Select Courses:
    • Data Structures
    • Design & Analysis of Algorithms
    • Data Mining & Warehousing
    • Advanced Algorithms
    • Fuzzy Logic
    • Database Management System

Work Experience

CBS

Columbia Business School

Project Assistant, Accounting. (2016 - Present)


Citrix

Citrix Research and Development

Software Engineer 2 (2014-2016)


PayPal

PayPal

Software Intern (Jan 2014 - Jun 2014)

Projects


Data Scraping of Financial Statements

(Columbia Business School)

  • Scraping online press releases and 10-K documents
  • Data analysis to identify winning stocks and aid stock picking

Scalable Query Framework (PayPal)

  • Near-real-time big-data processing at PayPal Inc.
  • Data storage in Apache HBase with indexing in ElasticSearch
  • Reduced query response time from minutes to seconds.
  • Project continues to be used internally for QA verification.


Druid Data Dashboard (PayPal)

  • Exploratory analytics platform at PayPal Inc.
  • Used D3.js and other charting libraries.
  • Ability to do real time drill-downs, roll-ups, and segmentation.
  • Provides self-service reporting and business intelligence.

Plagiarism Detector (R.V College of Engineering)

  • System to find duplicate text using distance-measures.
  • Parses PDFs, text files, word documents.
  • Scraping text data from the web using Google Search API
  • Front-end interface using Twitter Bootstrap

SmartOffices IOT Platform (Citrix)

  • Internet-Of-Things (IoT) platform and application solution to connect devices with people.
  • The project used iBeacons, as low energy "dumb" devices.
  • Beacons were placed all around the office.
  • A client side android application detected beacons nearby.
  • The mobile-app would communicate with a backend NodeJS server.

Citrix ShareConnect

  • ShareConnect allows users to remotely access their files and share them.
  • I worked on the Windows host component to make remote access possible.
  • The remote apps are live on the App Store and Play Store.
  • The product allows users to access and work on desktop files and apps on the go from any device.
  • The Windows host also allows the user to save files directly to the cloud

Relevant Activities

IISC

Indian Institute of Science

Summer School 2013

  • I attended multiple sessions given by some of the best industrial and academic researchers in fields such as - Data Mining, Big Data and Machine Learning.
  • I even came second in a problem solving competition held here!
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Microsoft

Microsoft Research

Pre-FIRE 2013, Information Retrieval Society of India (IRSI)

  • I was selected to participate in PRE-FIRE 2013, an information retreival session organized jointly by Microsoft Research Lab Bangalore, and IRSI (Information Retreival Society of India) on Multilingual Information Retrieval, after a nation-wide preliminary round.
  • The initial round involved a query location matching problem of finding location names within search queries.
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Get in touch!

I would love to collaborate or work with you. Let me know if you have interesting opportunities for me!

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