Varsha Iyengar

www.varshaiyengar.com

acwv00@r.postjobfree.com

Software developer with focus in UI/UX engineering. Seeking full-time opportunities in front-end development, full-stack development or mobile development.

Master of Science in Computer Science (Arts, Media + Engineering) Arizona State University, AZ 2014 - 2016

• GPA 3.6 • Awarded Teaching Assistantship for 3 consecutive semesters.

• Relevant coursework: Statistical Machine Learning, Foundations of Algorithms, Computer Graphics, Rapid Prototyping through research, Media Installations. Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science PESIT, Bangalore, India 2010 – 2014

• Relevant Coursework: Web Development, Java, C++, Social Analysis, Cloud.

480-***-****

2684 Sequoia Creek Dr.,

San Jose, CA 95121

Experience Teaching Assistant 2015 – 2016

• Served as a TA for the ’Computational Thinking for Digital Culture’ and ‘Capstone and Collaborative Projects Studio’ courses.

• Responsible for teaching substitution classes, holding office hours and grading students of class size 10 to 100 primarily in MAX/MSP. UI Developer Intern Idean Enterprises, Palo Alto, CA Jun - Aug’15

• Developed a web application that integrated company projects into a portfolio application.

• Deployed application using MeteorJS, a JavaScript framework and jQuery and translated design specifications to HTML and CSS.

• Revamped sales presentation strategies for representatives.

• Contributed to prototyping UX research experiments at the UX Summit hosted by Idean. Senior Technological Assistant The Synthesis Center, Arizona State University, AZ Jan - May’15

• Responsible for the ideation and development of responsive environments and maintenance of a media choreography system, ‘Ozone’.

• Ideas and code currently being integrated into system. Android Developer Intern BORQS Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, India Jun - Aug’12

• Designed and developed ’SuitYou’, an Android application that provides personalized clothing recommendations by analyzing human social behavior.

• Formulated the algorithm using principles of content-based recommendation engines.

• Developed using the Android Development Kit on Eclipse and designed in Adobe Photoshop. Projects Analysis of Habitual Patterns in Vernacular Movement (thesis) Arizona State University, AZ Aug’15 – May’16

• Developed a real-time system that discovers, by standard clustering algorithms, recurring postures in movement.

• Responsible for custom motion-capture data collection and deployed solution using k-means and sequential k-means algorithms refactored for skeletal data.

• Publication: Iyengar, Varsha, et al. "Motion, Captured: an Open Repository for Comparative Movement Studies., “Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing. ACM, 2016.

• Technologies used: OptiTrack Motion Capture System, Java, OSC, MATLAB, Processing Prediction of Forest Fires based on Meteorological Data Arizona State University, AZ Jan – May’15

• Developed and validated a stand-alone model to predict forest fires using machine learning techniques such as Support Vector Machines, K-Nearest Neighbors and Decision Trees.

• Technologies used: MATLAB

Pepé, Motion Mapping Project Arizona State University, AZ Aug – Dec’14

• Developed and choreographed a custom video projection-mapping solution on moving bodies.

• Technologies used: OptiTrack Motion Capture System, OSC, MATLAB, MAX/MSP, Adobe Photoshop DanceOrch (Final project) PESIT, Bangalore, India Jan-June‘14

• Developed a tool for real-time music generation using gesture recognition in Microsoft Kinect.

• Gestures were custom mapped to music programmed in Chuck, an audio programming language.

• Technologies used: C++, Microsoft Kinect, FAAST, Chuck InfoSlice PESIT, Bangalore, India Jan-June’14

• Developed an application for the Intel CCF Challenge that enhances student-teacher collaboration and classroom experience.

• Technologies used: Android SDK on Eclipse, Intel Common Creativity Framework Interests and ski l ls Dancer at Nritarutya, Indian Contemporary Dance Company, Bangalore Freelance Voice-over artist for radio advertisements. Extensive experience organizing hackathons and other events. Web-technologies

HTML5/HTML

CSS3, Sass,

JavaScript, jQuery, MeteorJS,

Handlebars, Basic AngularS

Basic ReactJS

Programming

Java

MATLAB

C++

OSC protocol

C

Chuck

Software

Motive Motion Capture

MAX/MSP

Processing

Android

Microsoft Kinect SDK

Git

Sketch

Final Cut Pro

Jitter

Basic Mad Mapper

Basic Unity 3D

Basic Adobe Suit

Gephi

Language

English

Kannada

Hindi

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