Software Engineer Data

Dakshal Shah

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Education

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, NY AUG 2016 - MAY 2018

Major: Master of Science in Computer Science (Data Science) CGPA: 3.96

Coursework: Data Science, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and Big Data, Advance Operating Systems, Artificial intelligence, Computability, Advance Quantitative Analysis, Advance Neural Nets

DA-IICT, INDIA AUG 2012 - MAY 2016

Major: B. Tech in Information and Communication Technology GPA: 3.35

Coursework: Algorithms, Databases, Algebraic Structures, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Calculus, Operating Systems, Probability & Statistics

Technical Experience

Hofstra University, NY SEP 2016- MAY 2018

GRADUATE ASSISTANT

•Design Custom UI components for MIT’s App inventor, track crashes and build issues during development, fix existing bugs in it.

• Forecasting Crimes for NIJ using the previous 5 years’ crime date by implementing the prediction algorithm.

•Implement an RNN model to analyze and predict crimes during several time periods at a specific location.

•Improve RNN efficiency to improve prediction accuracy.

•A Facebook chatbot with integration of NLP concepts to understand the user queries and provide assistance to do checkout, questions or finding product from the store.

OERLIKON-METCO, NY AUG 2017- JAN 2018

INTERN, DATA SCIENCE

•Predict gun’s life using voltage sequence and analyzing patterns in it.

•Creating a self-diagnosis system that can learn to identify the problem with gun setup and fix it be itself.

INTEGRAL AD SCIENCE, NY JUN 2017-AUG 2017

INTERN, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

•Create a program that can allow user to visualize and find trend of different user’s Hadoop storage usage

•Create a system to visualize user’s activity and ad click data for different ad campaigns.

•Communicated effectively with the team members.

SERVIFY, MUMBAI, INDIA JAN 2016–JUNE 2016

INTERN, APPLICATION DEVELOPER

•Recreate the servify android app with the latest available android tools to make app more user-friendly.

•Effectively implement the basic recommendation system and payment system with Instamojo APIs.

•Efficiently create a module app that can be changed easily to create different partner app.

MLVEDA, AHMEDABAD, INDIA MAY 2014-AUG 2014

INTERN, SOFTWARE ENGINEER

•An android application to create reminder of the instalment premium due for different insurance policies.

•Worked in a team to make the product more reliable and efficient.

Academic Projects

Crime Forecasting for NIJ (2016-2017)

• Forecasting Crimes for NIJ using the previous 5 years’ crime date by implementing the prediction algorithm.

Text Analysis (2016)

•Developed an application that predicts/write future movie scripts that may be directed by Christopher Nolan by using LSTM and NLP.

Titanic Disaster Survival Prediction System (2016)

•Prediction of person’s survival using random forest trained by several persons’ class, gender, age, cabin type, etc.

Recipe Recommendation System (2015)

•A recommendation system that can suggest other recipes based on the correlation between the flavor molecules of a recipe with others.

Interview Platform (2015)

•A web-app which provides the facility for scheduling video/audio interviews with the compatibility of a notepad which can also compile several programming language codes.

Distributed Computing System (2014)

•A system with a server and several children to improve the efficiency of the task assigned to server by dividing it efficiently to its children and take output back.

Planet Wars (2013)

•Creating an AI that can defeat opposing AIs to win the planet wars game.

Language and Technologies

Programming: - Python, Java, C, C++, R, MATLAB, JavaScript, C#, ASP.NET

Databases: - SQL, MongoDB, SQLite, ElasticSearch DB, Graphite DB, Hive, PostgreSQL

Other: - Hadoop, MapReduce, GitHub, TensorFlow, Grafana, Weka, LaTeX, Amazon AWS, Confluence, Jira, Trello, RestAPIs

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