Computer Science Software Engineer

Apt ***, **** McCallum Blvd.

Dallas, TX-***** PUNEET GIRDHAR (972) - 408- 7652

*************.**@*****.***

EMPLOYMENT

Big Data Intern AT&T, Dallas Summer 2016

• Designed and developed cloud architecture using Amazon Web Services, Apache Solr & Hive

• Improved system throughput by 40% with parallel processing

• Built statistical model to compare competitor’s performance for market research analysis Software Engineer AOL Inc., India Fall 2013 - Fall 2015

• Designed & developed scalable distributed systems using Apache Hadoop and hive

• Worked on Next Gen UI framework using AngularJS, Grunt(Build System) and Bower

• Developed REST APIs for backend system and wrote efficient query system using MongoDB Program Manager Microsoft India (R&D), India Spring 2012 - Fall 2013

• Drove enterprise customer issues from escalation to resolution

• Improved product experience by collaborating with engineering to develop fixes requested by customer in the most cost effective manner

• Effectively partnered with teams to meet and surpass service level agreements EDUCATION

Dallas, TX University of Texas at Dallas Summer 2017

• M.S. in Computer Science with major in Data Science. In-Major GPA : 3.95

• Graduate coursework: Advanced statistics, Predictive analysis, Probabilistic Graphical Models

& Advanced Machine learning

Delhi, India IIT Delhi Fall 2012

• Professional Image processing

Hyderabad, India IIIT Hyderabad Fall 2010

• B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering

Projects

• Intelligent Planner (2015). Created a 3rd party tracking service to assist attendees of any event to reach the destination. It follows user at the event of flight delay, hotel check-in, event updates from host organization. Python & Django

• Hive SQL Explorer (2016). Created a web based hive SQL explorer for AT&T. It queries SQL like engines in backend and displays data in front end. Data interaction was done real time using javascript libraries. Python, Django & Pivot.js

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Professional Achievements

• Graduate Scholarship 2016. Awarded graduate scholarship for academic excellence

• Ship-IT award. Awarded by Microsoft India R&D Pvt. Ltd. for contribution towards Win 8

• Third Prize, CodeRed. Awarded 3rd prize in hackathon organized by CodeRed, 2015

• Winner. Won best innovative product by PROS in travels category at CodeRed, 2015 Certificates & Technical Skills

• Coursera certificate in Machine learning & Data Analytics from University of Washington

• Expert in C++/ python

• Strong background in distributed computing (Scala, Hadoop, Spark)

• Active in Kaggle & Core member of Data science club, UTD (R, Scikit, Pandas)

• Web development frameworks (Django, Node.js)

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