Ashwini Hosadevarahadlu Shivananda

**** ******** ********** *** #*, Los Angeles, CA 90007

acy1lm@r.postjobfree.com 213-***-**** http://www.linkedin.com/in/ashwinihs08

E DUCATION

U niversity of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA E xpected M ay 2 017

M aster o f S cience, M S in C omputer Science ( GPA 3 .22 /4 )

J awaharlal N ehru N ational C ollege o f E ngineering, I ndia J une 2 012

B achelor o f E ngineering, C omputer S cience ( GPA 4 /4 )

GRADUATE COURSEWORK

Analysis of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines, Database Systems, Natural Language

Processing, Data Mining, Requirements Engineering

TECHNICAL SKILLS

P rogramming Languages : J ava, P ython, A ssembly L ang P rogramming, T PF

D atabases : C assandra, MongoDB, S QL

W eb T echnologies : H TML5, J ava S cript, J SON, C SS, A ngularJS

Frameworks : Spring, J2EE, REST, Junit, Spring Boot, jasmine, karma

Tools : Eclipse, Solr, Weka, Tinker Pop, PostGres, PyCharm, Visual Studio, SVN, Intellij

WORK EXPERIENCE

V eritas ( Cloud D eveloper - I ntern) M ay 2 016 A ug 2 016

A ccomplished R etention P olicy f or B illions of i ncoming m ails with angularjs a s f ront e nd, R EST API a s m iddle tier, S park

c lusters f or m achine l earning a lgorithms a nd C assandra f or d ata s torage

A nalyzed S crum Process (Agile) in e nforcing p olicies f or e mails thereby a chieving the g oals set in e ach sprint c ycle

T ata C onsultancy S ervices ( Software E ngineer ) N ov 2 012 - J u ly 2 015

D esigned a nd d eveloped the a uthorization f or A merican E xpress C redit C ard u sing X ML, J avaScript, j son o n the c lient

s ide and J ava/J2EE o n s erver side

D esigned a nd d eveloped f und m anagement s ystem f or b anking s ervices. It w as b uilt u sing J ava/J2EE a nd A JAX w ith M S

S QL a s D atabase

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

C ontent O riented X ML R etrieval J an 2012 - M ay 2012

C ontent - oriented X ML r etrieval s ystems support access to X ML r epositories by retrieving X ML e lements i nstead o f w hole

d ocuments, in r esponse to u ser q ueries. Implemented L ibrary M anagement S ystem by creating a r epository o f t ext b ooks a nd

r etrieving the d esired b ooks b ased o n b ooks c omponents s uch a s title, a uthor, e dition a nd P ublisher

M ancala G ame A ug 2015 S ep 2015

M ancala is a t wo - player g ame o riginated in A frica w herein p layers m oves s tones a round a b oard t rying to c apture a s m any

s tones a s p ossible. I mplemented Greedy, M inimax, a nd A lpha - Beta pruning a lgorithm to d etermine the n ext m ove f or a

p layer in the M ancala g ame u sing Java T echnology

A ntique Plumbing S ystem S ep 2 015 N ov 2015

D eveloped D FS, B FS a nd U CS a lgorithms to d etermine the w ater f low s ystem in a ncient w ater p ipes u sing J AVA

M ap Reduce Framework a nd R ecommendation S ystems F eb 2016 M ar 2 01 6

A nalyzed P CY, A - priori, K - means, M ulti S tage, L SH, M ulti H ash a lgorithms i n M ap - Reduce a pplications u sing P ython

I mplemented recommendation systems s imilar to o nline shopping portals using P ython

S earch E ngine A pr 2016 M ay 2016

I mplemented a s earch e ngine f or U SC s chools retrieving i nformation u sing c rawlers, c leaning and r emoving d uplication o f

the d ata b y i dentifying e xact a nd n ear d uplicates in the d ata, I ndexing the d ata u sing A pache S OLR(Lucene) a nd

f inally r anking the c ontent based o n v arious f actors to d etermine relevancy. A lso i mplemented P ageRank a lgorithm to f etch

b etter results for the q uery.

S entimental Analysis of Yelp reviews A ug 2016 N ov 2016

C ollaborated N aive Bayes classifier, Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Decision Trees in order to categorize the

y el p reviews to various s entiments ( Positive, Negative and Neutral)

ACHIEVEMENTS

S ecured D eans Masters Fellowship award f rom U niversity o f S outhern C alifornia

A pplied P atent f or the I nternship project Intelligent Retention Policy a dvisor V eritas R eference N umber - 1 60207

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