Software Developer, Data Scientist

Pradip Chitrakar **** SUMPTER ST APT E, Hoover, AL, 35226

******.*********.**@*****.***, 205-***-****

Summary

More than two years of software development experience

Ability to adapt to different technologies as per required; Fast learner with good analytical skills

Education

Masters in Computer Science Aug 2014 – Dec 2017

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (GPA: 4.0/4.0)

Bachelors in Computer Engineering Nov 2007 – Nov 2011

Tribhuvan University (KEC), Nepal (GPA: 3.9/4.0)

Skills

Core Areas: Software Development, Data Mining, Machine Learning

Programming Languages and Script: C#, Java/J2EE, SQL, Python, Matlab, C++, HTML, HTML5, Javascript

Database Management Systems: Ms SQL, MySQL, Salesforce Cloud, MongoDB

Framework: .Net, ASP.Net MVC3, Entity Framework, PhoneGap, Salesforce Cloud, Microsoft Office Suite, Tableau

IDEs: Visual Studio, Eclipse, Spyder

Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac

Relevant Experience

Visiting Scholar7July 2017

Developed a custom skill for key word extraction using Alexa Skill kit

Integrated key word extraction module, using Standford NLP libraries, into recommender system

Analyzed different types of recommender system using python based libraries for domain specific accuracy

Graduate Research Assistant Aug 2014 – Dec 2016

Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Lab, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Object Recognition in Social Media Images – Enhanced object recognition process using Machine Learning techniques with image features and optimized the results with Convolutional Neural Network (Caffe)

Photobody Project - Preprocessed images for 3D construction of images from 2D photographs and predicted bodyfat percentage using Support Vector Regressor

Teaching Assistant Aug 2014 – July 2016

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Teaching assistant for courses: Database Systems, Introduction to Programming Language (Java), Assembly Language

Android Application Developer Nov 2013 – May 2014

E&A Solutions, Nepal

Developed android application modules using PhoneGap

Software Developer Nov 2011 – July 2013

Procit BV, Nepal

Managed requirement gathering, analysis and development of technical specifications

Reduced time for Data Warehousing in Salesforce Cloud with decrease in api calls to Salesforce Cloud

Supervised application modules for data gathering from different sources as well as data cleansing

Built REST webservice from its design to client release, for providing access to data from Salesforce Cloud to the clients

Enhanced Classsic ASP web pages by conversion into ASP.Net MVC 3 framework

Developed modules for PhoneGap based Android Applications

Internship – Software Developer May 2011 – July 2011

Radius Communications Pvt. Ltd., Nepal

Developed modules for in-house accounting web application

Other Projects

Cloud Based Lightweight Security Analysis System for Android Devices

Implemented with Amazon EC2

Presented results from multiple Android system running in Virtualboxes which scans application files for viruses

Used Android application permission to classify the risk factor present in the application

Cyber-Guard

Created a client-server based .Net application

Implemented bandwidth management and control of intranet-clients from sever computer

Publication

Pradip Chitrakar, Xinpeng L. Liao, Chengcui Zhang, and Gary Warner, “Mining Low-Duplicate Social Media Images for e-Crime Forum Detection” Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo., June 29-July 3, 2015, Turin, Italy

Xinpeng L. Liao, Pradip Chitrakar, Chengcui Zhang, and Gary Warner. “Object-of-Interest Retrieval in Social Media Image Databases for e-Crime Forum Detection.” Int. J. Multimed. Data Eng. Manag. 6, 3 (July 2015)

Ligaj Pradhan, Chengcui Zhang, and Pradip Chitrakar. "Multi-view Clustering in Collaborative Filtering Based Rating Prediction." 2016 IEEE Tenth International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC). IEEE, pp.250-253, February 2016.

Award / Achievements

Graduate Assistantship, University of Alabama at Birmingham – Research assistantship and teaching assistantship

Fellowship, Kantipur Engineering College – Four-year fellowship during Bachelor studies

ROBOCUP Nepal 2010 - Participation in the competition organized by Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University

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