NITISHA PANDHARPURKAR

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/nitisha-pandharpurkar-277838105/ · https://github.com/nipandha

EDUCATION

FALL 2016

MASTER’S IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, New York University, Courant

GPA: 3.433, Fundamental Algorithms, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Scientific Computing, Big Data Application Development, Production Quality Software (Software Architecture)

FALL 2010

BACHELOR’S IN COMPUTER ENGINEERING, CUMMINS COLLEGE, PUNE

GPA: 3.78, Class Rank: 6/90, Advanced Databases, Distributed Computing, Software Architecture

EXPERIENCE

OCT 2018 – PRESENT

JR MACHINE LEARNING GENERALIST, AWM SMartshelf, aliso viejo, ca

oDeveloped 90% of SQL code and optimized performance using views, indexes and filtered indexes

oUsed OpenCV, OpenPose, Kinect Apis to gather spatial awareness of people, rendered optimized 3D point cloud using OpenGL in C++

oCollected results using custom VGG-based CNN models for object detection for clients

oDeveloped 90% of backend using Asp.Net Core, Azure SQL, Dapper, EF Core, SignalR, Azure Service Bus

oDeveloped custom JWT authentication for WebApi and Azure Service Bus along with other forms

oAdded interfaces to Entity objects to configure automated reports generation

oIntegration Testing using XUnit for all of backend functionality

o Worked on the front-end using react, redux, bootstrap, css to create web pages consistent with the rest of the website while only working on those pages. Incorporated all back-end changes in the front-end seamlessly.

oImplemented paging mechanism across SQL to front-end using paging query in the database

FEB 2018 – MAY 2018

INDEPENDENT RESEARCH, new York university, new york, NY

oDeveloped graphical game models to calculate Nash equilibrium in Python and numpy.

oUsed the python library Gambit to evaluate results on various test scenarios

oWrote a comprehensive project report for the project and relevant game theory topics

MAY 2017 – AUG 2017

INTERN – DATA SCIENCE TEAM, SCHLUMBERGER, PUNE, INDIA

oTensorFlow Seq2seq chatbot with attention based on papers. Analyzed results on custom datasets.

oDeveloped CBOW and Skipgram Word2Vec models to visualize clusters in the Cornell movie dataset

oUsed beam search along with attention in the same model

SEP 2015 – MAY 2016

R&D PROJECT ASSOCIATE, IIT BOMBAY, mumbai, india

oWas lead developer for a Video Creation desktop application from presentations using Java, ffmpeg and JQuery, CSS and Bootstrap to display create and display videos

oUsed Java swing to create a UI with small details and Undo functionality

oTried various format options for video creation in ffmpeg and created options for user to select the easiest combinations of features

oUploaded data from the tool to an online database further used for machine learning

oGathered Youtube titles from the video clips available using Google python apis

oUsed Groovy on Grails backend to create endpoints for IIT Bombay Business website

oVideo Classification on tags, title using python,

oOntology development using the DMOZ dataset and WordNet, Indo-WordNet

oData Mining Using Python and ScraPy

JUL 2014 – SEP 2015

SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, Microsoft, Hyderabad, INDIa

oDeveloped OData Rest Endpoints using SQL, C# and ASP.net MVC4

oCreated custom Azure Application Insights to understand user patterns in a customer-facing website

oDeveloped tools in C#, SQL in a team of 4 for the end-to-end upgrade process

oUsed multithreading in Powershell to optimize time performance by 40% as a side project and convinced my team to incorporate it on a very critical project by creating a comprehensive test suite and arranging group meetings to discuss the testing results.

oUsed Always On Availability groups for a data center setting to perform data replication and mirroring across regions in a 4 region data center with more than one kind of node

JAN 2014 – MAY 2014

BACHELORS PROJECT IN INDUSTRY, calsoft inc, PUNE, INDIA

oDeveloped a cluster in python and paramiko and implemented a distributed orchestrator on it

oIt would run testing tasks in parallel on unused computers at night

oAdded Jenkins and Bugzilla support to collect results from the tests when over

oUse load shifting and node disaster recovery implemented by scratch

ACHIEVEMENTS

oGraduate course project for ‘Inference & Representation’ among few extended for research

oUndergraduate seminar on “Architecture Patterns in Cloud Computing” selected among top 15/270

oUndergraduate Technical Secretary: Student leader of technical activities

oUndergraduate 2nd rank in national C/C++ Coding Competition, “Innovation”, Pune

SKILLS

Frameworks & Tools: VS Code Profiling, Dapper, XUnit, Spark, Spring, Hibernate, SQL Profiler

Web Technologies: Javascript, CSS, React, Redux, Node.js, Bootstrap, D3.js, Websockets

Cloud and Databases: SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure,

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