Engineering Software Developer

VISHNU NAGESH KUMAR

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Columbia University, Columbia Engineering and Columbia Business School New York, NY Master of Science, Management Science and Engineering Aug 2019 – Dec 2020 Relevant Coursework: Financial Engineering, Stochastic Models, Capital Markets, Probability & Statistics, Optimization Visvesvaraya Technological University, B.M.S. College of Engineering Bengaluru, IN Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation Technology Aug 2013 – May 2017 Relevant Coursework: Object oriented programming with C++, Operating Systems, Operations Research SKILLS

Programming Skills: Python (pandas, numpy, sklearn, nltk), SQL, JavaScript(react,node), Bash, R, MATLAB, C++, HTML5, CSS3 Frameworks, Libraries and Tools: Mulesoft Anypoint Studio, AWS, Git, JIRA, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Bloomberg, GCP Financial skills: Discounted cash flow analysis, derivatives, technical analysis, financial modelling, behavioral finance EXPERIENCE

UNDP Crisis Bureau New York, NY

Data Analytics Consultant (Part-time) Sep 2019 – Present

• Mining news data of West Africa from a news aggregator and running sentiment analysis using python nltk module

• Cleaning diverse datasets from various sources and finding correlations and trends between news sentiment, elections and violent events using statistical techniques like linear regression

• Estimating likelihood of violence by developing a ‘score’ to predict probability of riots/protests during elections Beyul Labs New York, NY

Strategy Analytics Consultant (Part-time) Sep 2019 – Present

• Analyzed marketing data and strategies of leading payment gateways, to assist in marketing strategy development

• Automating email and notification flow process for merchants, customers and the Bhutan National Bank

• Developing an interactive reporting dashboard for internal admin and merchants to monitor transactions Great West Financial (Empower Retirement) Bengaluru, IN Software Developer Jun 2017 – Mar 2019

• Collaborated with the business reporting team to automate data collection process from Salesforce to Jira

• Designed an interface for a react.js based web application to replace oracle forms saving 20h+/week of effort

• Migrated API’s from Mulesoft API gateway to AWS API gateway using node.js and AWS lambda ExtremeDuel Bengaluru, IN

Cofounder and CFO Dec 2016 – Jun 2017

• Handled the financial operations of the organization, including negotiations with Cloud/VPS providers

• Pitched the decentralized blockchain based application to investors to obtain funding for various growth initiatives

• Assisted the CEO with financial planning and risk management. Strategized the promotion and marketing PROJECTS

Real time conversion of printed text to Braille

• Programmed a machine learning based optical character recognition code in Python to recognize printed text

• Designed a 3D printed handheld device to provide a tactile (touch-based) output for the visually challenged

• Devised actuators to be in the device and mimic the Braille character system based on character recognized Time series modelling of VIX

• Extracted daily CBOE VIX (Volatility Index) data from the St. Louis Federal Reserve website

• Performed exploratory data analysis on the VIX and checked for stationarity, trend and seasonality

• Modelled the VIX data using time series models such as ARIMA, SARIMA and SARIMAX Recreating Tinder using react.js

• Applied web development concepts and utilized HTML5, CSS3 and react.js to design Tinder web application

• Designed profiles, “like”, “super-like” and other features of the Tinder app using react CERTIFICATIONS

Bloomberg Market Concepts – Bloomberg LP, R Programming - Johns Hopkins University HOBBIES and INTERESTS

Electronic Music Production, Poker, Technical Analysis, Fitness, Behavioral finance

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