Software Engineer Student Assistant

Nitheesha Reddy Kandula

E-mail: *********.***********@*****.*** Phone: 909-***-**** LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitheesha-reddy- 0427b1148 Objective:

• Seeking a position that utilizes my skills and abilities as a part of my academics that offers professional growth while being resourceful, innovative, and flexible. Summary:

• 4 years of extensive work experience as a self-motivated and result oriented professional.

• Demonstrated ability to work across multiple business units to be an assertive individual. Education:

• Bachelor of Engineering in IT from Osmania University May 2019

• MS Computer Science and Engineering at CSUSB May 2024 Awards:

• Best employee with zero leaves for 3rd quarter in Byjus.

• Outstanding student in a workshop of Ethical Hacking in Engineering.

• Best outgoing student for 2015th batch in 12th standard. Skills:

Interpersonal Skills : Active listening, Teamwork, Assertive Communication Functional Skills : People Management, Time Management Technical Skills:

Languages : C#, Java, Python, SQL

Tools :Elasticsearch,MongoDB,Postgre,Hadoop.

Libraries and packages: TensorFlow, Django, Pandas Experience:

School of CSE, CSUSB Jan2023 – Present

Instructional Student Assistant (Masters)

Responsibilities:

• Assisting the class by investigating, compiling information, and analyzing results for an organized research study.

• Attending meetings, symposia, and sometimes classroom lectures.

• Conducting desktop research, and using books, journal articles, newspaper sources, questionnaires to gather data.

• Analyzing and interpreting patterns and trends.

• Recording findings by taking written notes and using appropriate software. Skills: Data Analysis, SaaS, Agile methodologies

Information Technology Services, CSUSB Aug2022 – Present Student Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Install and Configure Computer Systems, diagnose hardware and software faults, solve technical and application problems, either over the phone or in person.

• Proficiency in Mac/Linux/windows OS.

• Assist users with the operation of standard software applications, computer equipment, and peripherals in Laboratory.

Byju's, Bangalore May2020 – Feb2022

Senior Software Engineer / Business Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working on building an AI based application to assist big CRO’s in study initiation by guiding them to select their better research sites and getting their target student demo graph.

• Build a semantic and ontological search on unstructured data to be used by R&D team.

• Created a pipeline for document files and websites of customizable form to be converted into a standard format.

• Created ML model to predict whether a customer would become a repeat buyer of the courses or not if a free or discounted learning program is offered.

• Scraped data from a large list of sites with varying structures and patterns.

• Extensively worked on educational technology data like academic campaigns, Scholar tests, etc. Byju’s, Bangalore June2019 – May2020

Associate Data Engineer/Production support Engineer Responsibilities:

• Designing and developing new user-facing features using React/Angular/Vue adhering to best coding practices and standards.

• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use.

• Optimizing components/app for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

• Building responsive web applications across a vast array of web-capable devices

• Researched on newer libraries, tools, and frameworks.

• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection

• Mentoring junior front-end developers

Byju’s, Hyderabad June2017 – Apr2019

Intern

Responsibilities:

• Built a Large-scale data ingestion pipeline for predictive analysis and end-to-end ingestion using Apache spark and Kafka.

• Worked on natural language semantic querying engine on salesforce objects using Elasticsearch.

• Used Languages like Python, Scala

Osmania University, Hyderabad Jan2017 – May2017

Research Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Worked for HOD CSE professor Dr. R. Manivannan.

• Assisted a PhD Scholar to implement their thesis.

• Performed advanced data mining and analysis on a variety of complex multivariable datasets.

• Implemented a new proposed software engineering model which used predictive modelling and data mining from previous implementations of similar type of projects. I worked in an EdTech company Byjus-The Learning App as an Engineer having the role as a senior software Engineer. Here I was exposed to the world of data science, and I am so intrigued seeing how technology is developing and helping different organizations irrespective of the field they work in, analyzing data and deriving the pattern to know customers interests. I also helped in creating a data lake for analyzing the entire gamut of data spanning across sales systems, marketing systems and post sales systems. While also employing additional checks to identity and verify that only authorized users had access to essential information thereby building an access-controlled marketing analytics platform. Through this experience, I had the opportunity to learn Full stack development and troubleshooting skills, applying them to real life situation in the industry. Volunteering:

Republic Youth Force (RYF), India Nov2018 – Present

• RYF is a non-governmental and non-profit organization which is a group of people from different countries acting together but not connected with the government of any country.

• We are trying to do something other than making money for the people in our society. Union of Academic Student Workers (UAW), California March2023 – Present UAW Local 4123 - Teaching Assistant's Union

Civil Rights and Social Action

• At the UAW at California State university (CSU) we make our labor movement stronger by helping as workers are protected by the collective voices of academic student employees across the CSU system for better wages and more equitable workplace.

References available on request.

Sincerely

Nitheesha

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