Sarath Kumar Ravindran
actaya@r.postjobfree.com
www.linkedin.com/in/sarathkrnair
Education
MS in Computer Science (Dec 2015) GPA: 4.0
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, NC
B.Tech in Computer Science (May 2009) GPA: 3.5
Model Engineering College, Cochin, India
Graduate coursework: Natural Language Processing, Algorithms and Data Structures, Big Data Integration,
Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Visual Databases, Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games, Visual Analytics
Skills
Programming: C, C++, PL/SQL, R, HTML, CSS3, Shell scripting
Tools and Technologies: Bluemix, Weka, GDB, UML, Rose, Clearcase, Git, UNIX, Linux, Informix, Oracle, MYSQL
Experience
Lead Engineer
Motorola Solutions, Inc.
August 2011 - December 2014
Product: iDEN OMC – SNMP Technologies: C, C++, Informix
Designed and implemented product features, and ensured delivery to client passing through various quality gates
Root caused critical client issues and solved well within service level agreement limits, achieving 100% compliance
Database Administrator for over 200+ employees with expertise in database query tuning and optimization
Achieved expertise in Intelligent Optimization Service and handled market cases without knowledge transition
Enhanced product uptime by 14% by reordering Solaris boot order with custom RC scripts for loading Informix
Developed automation scripts for OMC schema installation which saved hours of developer unit test setup time
Solved complex technical problems in platform migration from Motorola which in turn improved 10% build time
Published idea of GPS data mining for urban planning was recognized as top 10 ideas by Vice President, Aricent Inc.
Associate Programmer/Analyst
Convergys IMG Ltd.
May 2009 - August 2011
Product: Infinys Rating and Billing Technologies: C, PLSQL
Owned and authored High Level Design, Detailed Level Design and code for payment API module. Primary ownership in more than 15 submodules in Billing Engine and Aggregated Report Generation modules
Designed and delivered a regression test suite in shell script which helps developers in unit test code automation
Academic Projects
E-commerce website review answering framework: Technologies: IBM Bluemix, Python
Developed Natural Language Processing application on the cloud which takes user reviews as corpus and answer questions using IBM Watson Cognitive Computing system
North Carolina Shark Attack Prediction Study: Technologies: Weka, Shell Scripting
Implemented classification methods for data mining of shark attack data. Predicted possibility of shark attacks for the forthcoming weeks.
Big Data Source Integration for localized data search: Technologies: Java, HTML
Big Data Indexing, searching, data integration based on relevance ranking using NLTK weighted average with location based priority
Smart Data Summarization and Contextualization: Technologies: C++, HTML
Converted large sets of text data into Smart data - searchable, categorized, contextualized and summarized into configurable percentage
Image Query Result Clustering: Technologies: Python, JS, HTML
Designed and implemented feature extraction from each image based on SIFT vector and color histogram to determine salient regions and object detection
Implemented Affinity Propagation clustering on million images and displayed in thumbnail view using JS, HTML
Awards
Awarded WOW-Individual Excellence Award in Aricent Inc. in March 2014
Moment Award in Motorola Solutions for Client Delivery and quick resolution of client issues in January 2013
Convergys Spotlighting Employee Excellence Award, in Convergys IMG for Infinys Rating Team in 2010, 2011
Proposed idea of Automated Voice Pattern Recognition to Country head for Motorola Solutions India and later implemented as an enhancement in the ASTRO two-way radio.