Shivang Raikar

Boston, MA +1-857-***-**** ad22m4@r.postjobfree.com linkedin.com/shivang-raikar github.com/shivangraikar shivangraikar.github.io

EDUCATION

University of Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts

Master of Science in Computer Science (GPA: 3.7) Sep 2021 - May 2023 Coursework: Neural Networks, Applied Machine Learning, UI/UX Design, Biomedical Signal and Image Processing University of Mumbai Mumbai, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering (GPA: 8.69/10) Aug 2018 - Jun 2021 Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Database Systems, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Operating Systems PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Massachusetts Boston, Massachusetts

Teaching Staff, Computer Graphics, CS 460 and Introduction to Software Engineering, CS 410 Sep 2022 - May 2023

● Contributed towards mentoring four project groups, 15+ students with project development, doubt-solving, and collaborations.

● Technologies: Scrum, ThreeJS, WebGL, Javascript

Crane Payment Innovations Malvern, Pennsylvania

Software Engineer Intern Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

● Spearheaded 60 test automation scripts and refactored 70 scripts in the CI/CD pipeline, improving the overall testing time by 60% and reducing the execution per test cycle from 5 weeks to 2.5 weeks required.

● Facilitated agile delivery through Jira integration. Partnered with cross-functional teams to align priorities and planning.

● Worked in a scrum team of 5 - 7 developers to follow the agile framework, contributing to in-house Easitrax web application to ensure test reliability on admin portals and internal tools.

● Technologies: Java, Selenium, TestNG, Jenkins, Maven Stokes Automotive Mumbai, India

Software Engineer Oct 2020 - Aug 2021

● Co-led a web development team to build a production-ready app to increase user engagement by 20% through analytics-driven deployment followed by comprehensive unit and functionality testing on prototypes leveraging 150 automated test cases for alerts, logs, shopping cart, payment gateway, and emails.

● Drove project success by establishing best practices and achieving 18 weekly deliverables. Led business administration utilizing SDLC methodology and agile project management in addition to routine code reviews.

● Created infrastructure and workflows to enable container deployment of web applications to keep track of transactions, payment gateway, assets, and inventory history using Java Spring Boot and advanced SQL.

● Technologies: Bootstrap, MySQL, Docker, REST, Spring Boot Diazaonic Labs Mumbai, India

Data Science Intern Jun 2020 - Oct 2020

● Coordinated a series of virtual networking sessions and facilitated introductions between 30+ peers on LinkedIn, GitHub, and technical platforms; generated over 20 new business leads and increased overall networking ability by 50%.

● Designed python scripts for 8 parameter selection and input/output image read and write operations.

● Automated image processing workflows in Python, cutting output time in half from 5 to 3 seconds using NLP and web scraping libraries including NLTK, Stopwords, WordCloud, and Wikipedia to optimize performance.

● Technologies: Python, Django, Deep learning

PROJECTS

Data Science Unicorn (Link) Python, Streamlit, AWS

● Led a team in creating and hosting a web tool to predict the salary of a Data Scientist by considering 15 input parameters aligning with a real-life datasets survey of 10,000 working individuals. WordCloud Kit (Link) Python, Heroku, FlaskApp

● Engineered a real-time web application to ingest an input string, process it, and generate a wordcloud to visualize summary data. Produces a summary of large documents (reports, speeches) to create art on a topic or to visualize data. Climate Clock (Link) Python, Flask, SQL, Swift, Pythonista

● Built an iOS application that serves as a live climate clock that monitors and tracks 7 data streams. Brainstormed problem-solving and critical thinking abilities. Open source: https://climateclock.world/ RESEARCH & CERTIFICATIONS

● Raikar, S., Nagarkar, P., Zantye, A., & Khan, A. (2020, July). Twitter Data Mining for Targeted Marketing. In 2020 Second International Conference on Inventive Research in Computing Applications (ICIRCA) (pp. 44-50). IEEE. (Paper)

● Raikar, S., Mhatre, V. (2018, January). Security system in Sensor Networks. Winner at Mumbai University, Paper presentation

● Software development principles by Microsoft, Web programming by Harvard University, Summer academy energy careers growth by National Grid.

SOFTWARE SKILLS

● Languages: Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, GoLang, HTML/CSS

● Tools and IDE: Git, GitHub, PyUnit Selenium, VSCode, NetBeans, JUnit, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Containerization

● Databases/Cloud: SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, GoogleCloud platform

● Frameworks/Libraries: REST, Django, Flask, ReactJS, Scikit-learn, Streamlit, PyTorch, OpenCV

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