KAVYA VASUDEVARAJU linkedin.com/in/kavyavasudevaraju

Graduate Student in Computer Science ac8m26@r.postjobfree.com +1-857-***-**** www.kavyavasudevaraju.com Available: May 2019

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EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston, MA Jan 2017 - Current Candidate for a Master of Science in Computer Science Graduation: May 2019 Related courses: Algorithms, Information Retrieval, Database Management Systems, Managing Software Development, Web Development, Foundations of AI PES Institute of Technology, Bangalore South Campus, Bengaluru, India Sep 2009 – June 2013 Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science and Engineering EXPERIENCE

PayPal Inc., Software Engineer Co-op - Payments Platform Newton, MA

● Contributed to developing a feature for Risk Management Engine, to monitor and log suspicious user activities; in a Serverless architecture using Amazon DynamoDB.

● Managed and delivered end-to-end feature to add new logging attributes to existing payment endpoints as a part of an effort to monitor payment transaction data (Java).

● Resolved bugs, and developed new features for existing payment microservices. Jan 2018 – Aug 2018

Celstream Systems Pvt Ltd, Senior Software Engineer - Product Engineering Bengaluru, India

● Evaluated and integrated Amazon SNS and SQS web services into a RESTful web application using Java, resulting in a 2x improvement in performance.

● Designed a PoC Eclipse IDE plugin aimed at enhancing device management interface by 10-20% using HTML, CSS for user interface, and Java on the back-end. Dec 2014 - June 2016

Cognizant Technology Solutions Pvt Ltd, Programmer Analyst - IBM Lotus Notes Chennai, India Modified IBM Notes application using Lotus scripting and Formula language to build a platform-independent application with performance improvements of 30-40%. Oct 2013 - Nov 2014

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Language Proficient - Java, Python

Familiar - C++, C, Swift, Racket

Tools MySQL Workbench, Git, JIRA, Maven,

SonarQube, Splunk, Cucumber

Framework Spring MVC, Jersey, Node.JS,

Express, Angular, jQuery

Database Amazon DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL,

Cassandra

RESEARCH & PROJECT

Northeastern University, Research Assistant - Entrepreneurship & Innovation Group Boston, MA

● Developed Python scripts to crawl, parse, and merge relevant public project data from Kickstarter - a global crowd funding platform, and Factiva - curator of global news.

● Parsed data from Indiegogo - International crowd funding site, and modelled music genre related topics using Gensim (topic-modelling Python toolkit) which increased performance by 30%; and designed user surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk. June 2017 - Current

Plagiarism Detector, Northeastern University - Managing Software Development Project Boston, MA Contributed to developing a web application using Spring Boot framework, which aims at detecting plagiarism in assignment submissions (Python files) made by students. Oct - Dec 2017

Music Discovery, Northeastern University – Database Management Systems Project Boston, MA Developed a music discovery web application using the Spotify API, that enables users to search, listen, favorite songs, and also curate their own playlists; using Node.JS, Express, HTML, CSS, and MongoDB (MEAN stack).

Nov - Dec 2018

Information Retrieval System, Northeastern University - Information Retrieval Project Boston, MA A search engine implemented using TF-IDF, BM25 and Lucene retrieval models.

• Improved TF-IDF and BM25 retrieval models with addition of stopping and stemming.

• Implemented snippet generation and query highlighting. Apr 2017

LEADERSHIP & ACTIVITIES

Northeastern University Graduate Women Coders, Public Relations Manager Treasurer May 2017 – Dec 2017 Clinton Global Initiative University, Student - Environment and Climate Change Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 Hackathons: BostonHacks, New England Machine Learning Hackathon, MIT IoT Hackathon Apr - June 2017

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