Experience

• Full Stack Developer

  
  
  

  Bola Technologies, Boston

  Jan 2018 – Present

  • Researched and developed the core algorithm for the Question Answering system used by the product
  • Developed multiple Alexa skills for Question Answering, Web Browsing, Web Automation etc.
  • Automated web browsing using Selenium and Javascript to achieve user tasks using voice commands
  • Scrapped web pages and created segments for websites to gather useful information from the page

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  
  
  

  Northeastern University, Boston

  Jan 2017 – Dec 2017

  • Tutored, assessed and graded assignments and exams for 100s of undergraduate students.

• Learning Management System Administrator Co-op

  
  
  

  Northeastern University, Boston

  July 2016 – Dec 2016

  • Developed effective SQL scripts and queries to reduce the existing execution time by 40% to gather course information required by the faculty and staff.
  • Automated course creation, report generation and various course related operations using Windows Bash and Excel VBA scripts in Blackboard and helped hundreds faculty and staff to save around 10 hours of manual work a week.

• Software Engineer

  
  
  

  Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai, India

  July 2013 – July 2015

  • Designed web applications using AngularJS, Node.js, HTML, CSS and JavaScript in MVC architecture for users to efficiently query and access banking data.
  • Modelled and built a web module to automatically generate reports reduced 20 man hours per week and eased the decision-making process.
  • Optimized SQL queries and normalized tables to speed-up the retrieval of finance data by 30%.
  • Monitored and managed 30 Unix servers (production, development, test and disaster recovery).
  • Programmed automation scripts for server maintenance, health checks and report generation using UNIX shell scripting and Excel macros saving up to 20 hours of manual work per week.
  • Won the “Star Performer Award” for my innovative and cost saving contributions to the web applications.

Education

• Northeastern University, Boston, MA

  
  
  

  Master of Science in Computer Science

  Sep 2015 – Dec 2017

  Courses: Web Development, Algorithms, Parallel Data Processing using MapReduce, Information Retrieval, Database Management Systems, Artificial Intelligence

• SASTRA University, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

  
  
  

  Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology

  July 2009 - May 2013

  Courses: Data Structures, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Data Warehousing and Data Mining, Java Programming, Software Engineering