BALAUSHA VARSHINI KANDIKONDA

ac50n9@r.postjobfree.com 813-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/varshinikandikonda

OBJECTIVE:

Software industry professional with 2.5 years of strong experience in software development, deployment and environment management with sound knowledge on object-oriented approaches and a Master’s degree in Computer Science. Looking for an entry level full-time position as Software Developer/Engineer. CAREER SUMMARY:

• Expertise in the server-side programming languages like Java, Node.js, C, C++, PHP.

• Skilled in developing responsive web applications using HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Java Script.

• Experienced in developing applications using J2EE technologies such as JSP, Servlets, JDBC, Spring, Hibernate and XML.

• Well versed with core concepts such as OOPS, Multithreading, Collection Frameworks.

• Strong database skills using Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL and Mongo DB and experience in writing Stored Procedures, Triggers.

• Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle including Object oriented programming, designing and prototyping.

• 1 year of work experience as a Graduate Research Assistant at University of South Florida in the department of Computer Science and Engineering.

• 1 year of work experience as Systems Engineer developer at PurpleTalk Inc., and achieved the best employer (SPARK) award in the first quarter of joining the team.

• 6 months of work experience as Systems Engineer Intern at PurpleTalk Inc., in developing web applications using PHP, JavaScript, JQuery.

RELEVANT TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Core Skills : Java, C, Python, C++,

Databases : Oracle 11g, MySQL, MongoDB, PL/SQL, SQL Server Operating Systems : Windows, Linux/Unix

Web Technologies : Node.js, JSP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, JQuery, Servlets, JSP, AJAX, PHP, ASP.NET Web Services : SOAP & RESTful

Frameworks : JDBC, Hibernate, Spring MVC, Yii2

Software & IDEs : Microsoft Visual Studio 2015, JIRA, Eclipse IDE, Netbeans IDE, MS Office Suite Development Methodologies : Agile, SCRUM, UML

Servers : Apache Tomcat

Data Skills : Excel, SQL, AWS (S3, EC2, Kinesis)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Graduate Research Assistant – University of South Florida May 2017 – August 2018 Served as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Srinivas Karkoori in Computer Science and Engineering Department and worked on a project.

• Designed a key based obfuscation technique for behavioral VHDL to provide security against man-in-the-middle attack.

• Generated a parser using YACC and LEX for reading and modifying the original VHDL model.

• Mitigated reverse engineering with the proposed work and calculated resilience to find the probability of guessing the correct key, which is very low.

Graduate Teaching Assistant – University of South Florida August 2017 – May 2018 Served as a Teaching Assistant in Computer Science and Engineering Department for three different subjects based on DevOps, Java and Python in the span of two semesters.

• Assisted instructor in grading homeworks, midterms, and final exams for all three courses.

• Held weekly office hours to answer questions from almost 90 under-graduate students each semester.

• Assisted students on learning basics of DevOps, its impact on system, quality concerns of security and performance from developers and stakeholders.

• Hands on support to students in getting mastered in the 5 programming skills, usage of CodingBat and JGRASP tool for Java.

• Helped students in learning the subject, “Introduction to Python Programming and Data Structures”. Systems Engineer – PurpleTalk, Hyderabad, India June 2015 – June 2016 Nanolumens [Java, Node.js, MySQL, MongoDB]:

At NanoLumens, the world’s most powerful LED display platform is combined with an unparalleled array of visual communication services to produce the world’s most engaging customer. The challenge was installing large LED displays in an environmentally friendly way while maintaining the historic feel of the facility.

• Worked on Database management with MySQL and MongoDB with high data transmission rates (~10MB/sec). Used Hibernate as an ORM tool in databases.

• Designed web services API to populate results and return outputs in the desired format using MVC framework.

• Written Node.JS code to send email and SMS notifications in extreme conditions of the application.

• Followed Agile methodology on daily basis for tracking work milestones. Twitter Automation [Java, Node.js, PHP, MySQL]:

Twitter Automation Platform automates the process of re-tweeting the company twitter feeds by its employees increasing the reach and virality of its marketing efforts. The overall vision of the product is to create a platform that enables companies to enroll their employees to automatically re-tweet what the company tweets and manage this activity by pre-defined rules.

• Used Twitter APIs to connect and exchange data with Twitter using Node.js for keeping a track of the company tweets.

• Created an admin dashboard using PHP with full security so that the company can add and delete the tags to retweet.

• Performed live data streaming of tweets in the twitter to keep a track of the tweets published by the company.

• Build the logic to randomize the retweets at different times of the day so that twitter does not consider the application as a bot and block it. Followed Hibernate and Spring at various stages. Systems Engineer Intern– PurpleTalk, Hyderabad, India December 2014 – May 2015 Grab Your Deals [PHP, JavaScript, JQuery]:

GYD is a website that features discounted gift coupons at local and multi-national companies which provides a connection between the merchants and customers directly. It involves GPS tracking and NFC technology.

• Performed JavaScript and JQuery validations to the login page for both the merchants and customers.

• Integrated NFC technology to pay the bill directly and Google maps with a clear street view for the location tracking.

• Used Java message service (JMS) to trigger automated mails to send remainders about the offer expiry.

• Unit-tested and documented web application and code. Worked on code refactoring, issues fixing in application. ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

Data Path Controller - USF [Java] Spring 2016

• Developed a java based controller which can read an aif file and generate a datapath for it, showing all the operators involved in the aif file.

Chatter Bot – Jabil Hackathon, USF [ASP.NET, MongoDB] Spring 2016

• Developed a self-learning bot which generates outputs based on the inputs given for the manufacturing company.

• Managed the database transactions using MongoDB used for storing all the inputs asked and outputs generated for each. Word Quiz – JNTU [Java] Fall 2014

• Designed a game which helps children learning process easy by providing a guessing for identifying different objects.

• Generated UI interface such that it is easy for children to handle the game without any disturbances in the application. Smart Alarm Clock – JNTU [Java] Spring 2013

• Designed a Java based mobile application and worked on the UI interface of the application which reduces multiple alarms.

• Implemented the difficulty level in turning the alarm off with various features like solving math equations, riddles, puzzles and the smart feature which helps a person to wake up with a smile on their face. Website Publication System – JNTU [JSP, Oracle] Fall 2013

• Developed code for interlinking of the application pages which has its products, tenders and advertisements of its own.

• Managed the database connections and transactions to enable dynamic updating into the website approved by the management to decentralize the activity within the organization. File System Implementation – JNTU [C,C++] Spring 2012

• Implemented bit-vector to identify the available blocks and accessed them accordingly to modify/add data into the file only in binary format. Bit-vector is continuously maintained whenever file data is modified. This is like FAT (File Allocation Table) implementation. ACHIEVEMENTS:

• Submitted the thesis work for peer-reviewed VLSI-SOC 2018 conference.

• Best Employer (Spark) award in the Deployment Team in the first quarter of the 2016 for doing exceptional and outstanding work at PurpleTalk.

• Elected as a Vice-President for IEEE – WIE (Women In Engineering) in Hyderabad zone for the whole year of 2012.

• Certificates from Udemy: JQuery, PHP.

• Certificates from Lynda: Java Essential Training, Advance Java Programming, Java Database Access with Hibernate. EDUCATION:

Master of Science (Computer Science and Engineering) GPA: 3.45/4.0 August 2018 University of South Florida - Tampa

Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science and Engineering) GPA: 8.26/10.0 May 2015 Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India

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