DIVYA KARKERA **** North Gower Street, Apt ***, Los Angeles, California-90038 315-***-****

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NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York City, USA Master in Science, Computer Science

May 2015

GPA 3.63

University of Mumbai, Xavier Institute of Engineering, Mumbai, India Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering

June 2009

Aggregate 62.5%

TECHNICAL SKILLS OVERVIEW

Programming: C, SQL, Java, Java Servlet Concepts: OOPS, DBMS, Information Security

Scripting: PHP, JavaScript, JQuery Cloud: Amazon Web Service, Google App Engine PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employer (TA): NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, New York City, USA Spring 2015 Role: Teaching Assistant (Information Security & Privacy) o Conducted TA sessions, graded home-works, help create home-work assignments and set up the discussion boards. Employer (Internship): Lodestar Software Solutions, New York City, USA June 2014 to November 2014 Role: Software Developer (PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and JQuery) o Worked directly with CEO and CTO to develop a new compliance software product. o Boosted client growth by 7% with the release of compliance software for Mortgage & Real Estate Industries. o Designed a flexible and user-driven application layout which improved customer satisfaction by 25%. Employer: Mphasis, an HP Company, Mumbai, India January 2010 to October 2012 Role: Associate Software Engineer

Web Development for JPMC Accord (JQuery, JavaScript, HTML 4, CSS 2) o Revived JPMC Bank’s in-house financial application tool with a skilled team of ten. o Increased relative usage by 15% and application performance by 9% of the product. POC for Qual Care Employee Intranet site (JQuery, JavaScript, SharePoint, HTML 4, CSS 2) o Created a proof of concept aimed as a feasibility study for proposed venture with Qual Care o Established a new client relationship for the company with this bid. Prototyping for JPMC Chase UK Employee Intranet site - CAI (JavaScript, HTML 4) o Single-handedly created a prototype system mirroring production structure and layout. o Served as a rudimentary environment to gauge customer satisfaction and usefulness of new proposals. o Slashed 60-70% of man-hours for new enhancements, saving 3/4th of project costs for non-substantial projects. HDFC Insurance processing tool ATLAS (C#, Java, SQL) o Implemented root cause analysis and achieved 70% application workflow bug resolution ratio to make the system more robust and stable.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Twitt-Map (Java, JavaScript, Twitter API, GAE, HTML5, CSS3) o Generated a dot density map using Google Maps JavaScript API v3 to establish hash trends in real time. o Gathered 200+ MB tweets using Twitter4J and parsed them with hash tags in Google Datastore. Video Broadcast Conversation (Java, JQuery, AWS, HTML5, CSS3) o Successfully deployed a video broadcasting web app for handheld devices & PCs on AWS Elastic Bean Stalk. o Exploited Amazon S3 distributed service for video storage and Amazon RDS for queries. o Leveraging Amazon CloudFront recorded six times the response rate with a group of 15 users across the globe. Camelot Game (Java)

o Built a game with multi-level difficulty mechanism with heuristic function. o Implemented alpha-beta pruning search algorithm for computer decision-making. o Resulted in 7/10 probability that bot wins on difficult level when challenged against 3 avid gamers.