Watching on TV or playing pick-up, basketball and football (...soccer) are my two loves.
Força Barça! Mavs Fan For Life!
Cultural Voyager
Whether it's traveling, trying new foods or simply reading; I love exploring different
cultures and mythos. The backgrounds in the header and footer were captured during my trip to Alaska. Next
up, Oceania, Spain or maybe Japan...who knows!
Master Geek
Books, TV series, movies, games, comics, tech - you name it, I have something to say
about it. Channeling my inner geek is the best way to de-stress and enjoy my time off.
Portfolio
As a budding Software Engineer I hope to use my education,
experiences and abilities to help my team, company and others.
Feel free to download my
Résumé
. Click on the image panels below for more information about me!
Agile Project Management Essentials, Project Management Institute - Jan. 2018
Work Experience
"Experience is the teacher of all things" - Julius Caesar
Software Engineer
Wipro Ltd.
Jun. 2018 - Present
Plano, TX
Full time Software Engineer placed on client projects with Capital One
outline below:
Software Engineer
Capital One (through Wipro Ltd.)
Jan. 2019 - Present
Plano, TX
Drove migration of legacy UI application to modern SpringBoot tech stack resulting in 40% faster
response times,
simplified development process, reduced maintenance costs and enhanced browser compatibility
Led reconfiguration of CI/CD pipelines to leverage Docker and AWS ECS deployment leading to 80%
faster,
seamless deployments and reduced manual responsibilities
Remediated over 1000 vulnerabilities across 5 applications resulting in 98% fewer security
compliance
risks and safer infrastructure
Designed architecture for migrating a legacy batch job application to open source technologies
with a
modern Spring tech stack while targeting a cloud based, fault tolerant infrastructure and an
automated deployment pipeline.
Migrated a legacy REST API to a modern SpringBoot stack with microservice architecture resulting
in multiple, individually
deployable, fault tolerant APIs, adoption of open source technologies and 80% quicker deployment via
a new automated CI/CD pipeline.
Software Engineer
Capital One (through Wipro Ltd.)
Sept. 2018 - Jan. 2019
Plano, TX
Developed a Spark / Scala ETL framework resulting in a generalized approach for reading,
manipulating and storing large datasets in various
formats including parquet, avro, csv and database tables in RDS and Snowflake.
Built and configured Jenkins based CI/CD pipeline to deploy onto AWS EMR resulting in less manual
oversight and 50% faster build and
deploy process.
Full-Stack Development Resident
Coding Dojo
Sept. 2017 - Jan. 2018
Dallas, TX
Completed intensive, full-time web development program with well over a 1000 hours
of work building various
web applications in Python, MEAN and Ruby.
Team Engineer
Seattle Children's Hospital / University of Washington
Jan. 2017 - Jun. 2017
Seattle, WA
Designed and prototyped an easily adjustable intubation ramp for usage on patients
of all ages and body types.
Authored a design report detailing need, goals, prototype design, test methods and results. Presented
at
a research symposium.
Undergraduate Researcher
Carothers Research Group / University of Washington
Apr. 2016 - Jun. 2017
Seattle, WA
Self-motivated research on DNA gate functionalized gold nanoparticles and strand
displacement kinetics for
use in biosensor mechanisms and drug delivery. Authored research report detailing motivations,
experimental
design, results and discussion.
Research Intern
Sri Raghavendra Biotechnologies Pvt. Ltd.
May 2012 - Sept. 2012
Bangalore, India
Research Intern at a biotech firm working with cell culture, PCR and drug related
procedures. Capped off
with a solo project testing the efficacy of a novel cancer drug on HeLa cells using MTT assay.
Volunteer Activities
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth." -
Muhammad Ali
UW Outreach - Seattle, WA
Visited local highschools to teach kids about STEM and bioengineering as a major.
Also held workshops on skills like basic lab techniques.
Food Drive - Bangalore, India
Led an initiative to provide a sustainable, non-perishable food source to an
underpriviledge orphanage in Bangalore.
Provided well over a year's worth of food over the course of a few months and left behind the
infrastructure and connections to continue the initiative
long after I had departed.
Eye Camp - Bangalore, India
Led an initiative to provide subsidized eye check-ups and resulting care to the
students of a local public school.
Left behind the connections to continue the initiative yearly and also grow to incorporate other
schools and orphanages.
Student Teacher - Bangalore, India
For years, I spent at least one day a week going to a local orphanage to teach
basic math, english and life skills to under priviledged children.
Student Teacher - Bangalore, India
Collaborated with Schneider Electric's Conserve My Campus program to teach students
from younger grades about conservation of the environment and pollution.
Coached them for a conference in which they came home with a first place trophy.
Reddit Clone
Reimagining the front page of the internet.
One of the earliest comprehensive projects I completed was a Reddit clone for a
hackathon at Coding Dojo.
Placed into groups of three, the project was completed over the course of one weekend. Having just
learnt
our first framework, Flask, we took the opportunity to go above and beyond the base requirements and
explored
various ideas. Most notably it was our first time working with bootstrap and using true creative
freedom rather than focussing only on core functionality. We took the liberty to research recursion in
order to build nested
comments and emulate one of the hallmarks of Reddit. Our hard work earned us first place in the
hackathon
and the project remains one of the most interesting projects I have worked on as well as one I am most
proud of. I would like to revisit and modularize it one day. Feel free to watch the youtube clip of
the video demonstration we conducted as a part of the hackathon.
Tech - Python with Flask, HTML, CSS, Twitter Bootstrap, JavaScript with jQuery
and a MySQL database
Apologies for the clickbait. No adorable baby critters here...¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A published pip module for Python which I wrote out of the necessity for fuzzy
timestamps in many of my projects.
This module converts a datetime object, time object, date object, epoch int or date/time string into a
fuzzy timestamp such as "just now", "about 5 minutes ago" or "about an hour ago". This module also
works
for future dates giving an output such as "in five minutes". The latest version of the module utilizes
a binary search algorithm to speed up the
overall process. Although miniscule, the difference is felt when a large number of consecutive
operations
are conducted. The module is pip installable by anyone by running "pip install fuzzytime" in the
command
line.
