Balaji Natarajan

**** ****** **** #** ****** City, Missouri - 64110 ac25wx@r.postjobfree.com 816-***-**** github.com/NBalaji95 codepen.io/NBALAJI7/full/JJEbEj/ linkedin.com/in/balaji-natarajan-umkc EDUCATION

University of Missouri-Kansas City DEC 2017

Master of Science in Computer Science CGPA: 3.74 / 4 Courses: Web development, Python programming, Principles of Digital Communication, Principles of Big data, Formal Software Specification, Algorithms, Software Engineering, Statistical Learning, Image processing SASTRA University, Tirumalaisamudram, India JUL 2016 Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering CGPA: 7.85 / 10 EXPERIENCE

Learning Analytics Intern (Exchange Student), inLab, FIB, UPC, Barcelona, Spain FEB 2016 - JUN 2016

● Developed speed (agility rate, time spent, transition time & speed delivery) and intensity indicators

(delivery rate, engagement & competitive level) in Learning Analytics platform for secondary schools

● Visualized developed modules and motivation levels of students (PCA) using ggplot2 (R package)

● Tools used: RStudio and Database browser

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

Spark - Twitter Analysis of French Election (2017) SPRING 2017

Spark application for collecting and analysing Twitter data of French election. The analytical tasks done are:

• Determining top 10 influential users who tweeted about French election

• Locating parts of the world (by time zones), which are more concerned and curious about French election

• Finding top 10 trending hashtags based on velocity of data

Software(s) used: Jupyter IPython notebook (PySpark - Data frames, SparkSQL and RDD) Dijkstra's Uncertain shortest path SPRING 2017

Python application to find shortest path of a graph using Dijkstra’s algorithm where cost of links is expressed in form of probability distribution

Criteria used: Mean, Optimistic (μ – σ), Pessimistic (μ + σ), Stable (σ2 / μ * μ) and Dispersion Index (σ2 / μ) ShareUp FALL 2016

A cross-platform application developed using Ionic framework to assist users in finding cheaper grocery deals, and also to assist sharing them among people

Technologies used: MongoDB; APIs: Walmart, Foursquare, OpenWeatherMap and Geolocation Robust Resume Maker UMKC Hackathon - FALL 2016

A single page web application to generate user's resume (pdf) by mashing up (client side) of information obtained from social networking sites associated with them using JavaScript

APIs: Codewars, Facebook, LinkedIn and GitHub

SKILLS

Web technologies: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, jQuery, AngularJS, AJAX, Ionic framework, Node.js, Express.js, MongoDB, MySQL, PHP, D3.js, Plotly Programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, R

Other: Git, Statistics, Spark, Hadoop

CERTIFICATIONS

HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Front-End UI Frameworks & Tools, and Front-End JavaScript Frameworks: AngularJS by Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Coursera

SoloLearn Certificates: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery Python, PHP and SQL

Introduction to R Programming, by Microsoft, edx

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