LAVINA ADVANI

Email: acxfak@r.postjobfree.com•Contact: 213-***-**** •www.linkedin.com/in/lavinaadvani Objective: Dedicated professional looking for a Software Engineering position that prioritizes problem solving, critical thinking and devel- oping, testing and maintaining cutting edge technology and achieving computer science goals. Relevant prior experience in developing An- droid apps.

Education

University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering, Los Angeles, CA May 2016 Masters of Science, Computer Science

Relevant Coursework: Web Technologies, Database Systems, Analysis of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, User Interface design, imple- mentation and testing.

Mumbai University, Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai, India June 2014 Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology

Work Experience

Rubicon Project, a leading technology company automating the buying and selling of advertising June 2015 - present Software Development Engineer, Mobile team

Rubicon’s SDK for Android

• SDK is a component which provides a set of API calls to the app integrating with it, to get and display Ads. Also interacting with server side components to make these requests and receive responses.

• Implemented skip feature with timer for Rewarded Video Ads.

• Worked on implementing Sample App for Native Ads API to showcase video and non-video ads in a list.

• Worked on creating a wrapper for Native ads in a list to request ads in visible range only, and refresh ads to be placed back in the list for easier integration for a publisher app.

Analytics Library

• This library is a component providing a set of API calls to any Android app or any other API in Java to analyze the time taken to make requests and receive responses/process a JSON response or render a view on an app.

• Implemented the API as a library from scratch.

• Worked on creating a service to upload the results of the analysis to a server. Rubicon’s Preview App for Android

• Android App for Rubicon Project's clients to test the appearance of their Ads on any android device with additional functionality of changing location targeting and size parameters.

• Designed user interactions for the app by building a model to make size, type adjustments, which is reusable for all Ad types.

• Implemented list view for displaying a list of Ads along with category of the Ad by integrating fetching data from Creative/Ex- change API servers as required.

Rubicon’s Ad Server

• Created JUnit test cases for ad filtering logic, caching service, Rubicon's creative serving logic and exchange API server logic using EasyMock and PowerMock testing frameworks.

IIT Bombay

Android Development Intern December 2013-January 2014 Project PUBBY:

• An android application for children to learn the meaning of different gestures.

• Implemented gesture recognition and different color recognitions using machine learning and image processing. Academic Projects

User Interface Design and Implementation : NGO Website March 2016

• Developed a website as a class project for an NGO to accept food donations, keep track of date, type, quantity and distribution of the food accepted. Used HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery and PHP for the front-end and MySQL for the database connectivity. The website was hosted on a local camp server.

Real Estate Website September 2014-December 2014

In this project, a customer can search for a property and view it's ratings, location and images via Zillow and Facebook API.

• Designed and developed the project using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP and developed a mobile version of the website on Android platform.

Eye Simulation Using 3D Animation June 2013- March 2014 The aim of the project was to develop a real-time and interactive application on Android platform to teach students the structure and func- tioning of the human eye.

• Modeled the human eye in Blender 3D, designed material and texture, programmed the interactive nature of the application on An- droid platform and optimized the app to work on Aakash Tablet (low end Android-based tablet).

• Published Eye Simulation Using 3D Animation in the International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research. Leadership

Event Coordinator, Dwarkasdas J.Sanghvi College of Engineering, Mumbai University January 2013-May 2013

• Planned and organized mega inter-collegiate and intra-collegiate events which gained participation from all over the city.

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