VIRAJ PANCHAL
Boston, MA 551-***-**** *****.**********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/viraj-p/ EDUCATION
Master of Science, Information Systems
Northeastern University, Boston, MA December 2023
• Coursework: Web Design, User Experience, Application Engineering, Cloud Computing, Algorithms & Data Structures, DBMS
Bachelor of Engineering
D.J. Sanghvi College of Engineering, India July 2019
• Major: Electronics and Telecommunications
SKILLS
Frontend : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React.js, Vue.js Backend : Node.js, Express.js, PHP, MongoDB
Responsive Design : Bootstrap, Tailwind CSS
Mobile Development : Dart, Flutter
User Experience : Figma, Design Sprint
Version Control : Git, GitHub
Agile Development : Scrum, Kanban
INTERNSHIP EXPERIENCE
Web Development Intern (Remote) March 2024 – Present The Yiddish Arts and Academics Association of North America (YAAANA)
• Executed web development tasks using WordPress to enhance site functionality and user satisfaction
• Managed 5 interns with Kanban, speeding up MVP development and improving productivity by 15%, ensuring timely weekly task delivery
• Contributed to the optimization of website search engine visibility by addressing concerns identified in SEO reports, ultimately enhancing site traffic and performance
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Twitter UX Enhancement (Figma) October 2022 – December 2022
• Spearheaded an individual project optimizing Twitter's UX with innovative features (bookmark classification, merchandizing, and daily tweet limit)
• Attained an outstanding 90%+ peer approval for practical enhancements, showcasing adept user-centric design
• Leveraged Figma for seamless design and prototyping, ensuring a streamlined implementation
• Elevated user experience, enhancing organization, engagement, and community collaboration on the platform The Menace (Java) April 2022 - May 2022
• Implemented 'The Menace' tic-tac-toe game by replacing beads with values in hash table where keys represent game state to build a space and time optimal algorithm
• Proposed minimax algorithm as optimizing algorithm, made Menace 60% smarter than average person
• Self-taught SLF4J logging framework to record 10,000 plays to accurately pin down most optimal variables Healthcare Data Management (Oracle SQL) October 2021 - December 2021
• Designed an efficient ER diagram after assessing various business rules using MS Visio
• Generated and collated raw data, cleaned it, and inserted it into tables using DDL commands on Oracle
• Collaborated with three others to create views, triggers and procedures to make database intuitive to manage
• Added function-based indexes to eliminate full scans of 50,000+ rows, optimizing data access performance by 10% PUBLICATIONS AND APPEARANCES
“Malware Security,” International Conference on Electronics, Communication & Aerospace Technology 2018