Computer Science Research Assistant

HRITHIK DEVAIAH

Columbus, OH • ******************@*****.*** • +1-614-***-**** • linkedin.com/in/hrithik-devaiah/ github.com/hrithikdevaiah-999 • hrithikdevaiah.com Education

The Ohio State University Columbus, OH

Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering Aug 2023 – May 2025 Coursework: Adv. Operating System, Adv. Programming Languages, Data Mining, Data Visualization, NLP, Cybersecurity Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Visvesvaraya Technological University Bengaluru, India Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering Aug 2017 – May 2021 Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, DBMS, Operating System, Cloud Computing, Cybersecurity Experience

The Ohio State University Columbus, OH

Research Assistant Jul 2024 – Apr 2025

• Co-developed FZ-VIS, integrating libpressio with Vue.js+Flask for responsive 2D/3D visualization of lossy-compression

• Implemented GPU volume rendering in VTK.js, cutting load-to-render latency by 70%

• Refactored ingestion to parse 3D float64 data, sanitized NaN/Inf, and trimming preprocessing code by 40%

• Added Vuex-based save/submit flows and floating-window UI, reducing repeated setup steps 25%

• Researched colormaps and WCAG guidelines, enhancing color integrity and CVD accessibility across visualizations The Ohio State University Columbus, OH

Classroom & DU Student Tech (Part-Time) Feb 2024 – May 2025

• Developed a Python tool with k-means clustering to auto-catalogue and rename 1,000+ photos, saving 20+ hours

• Supported 300+ A/V classrooms & Digital Union spaces, delivering on-site & remote help across Windows and macOS

• Led emergency re-imaging of 300+ PCs during the 2024 CrowdStrike outage, restoring lecture uptime in 5 days

• Built tooling to streamline preventive checks and ticket logging, sustaining zero downtime and 95% first-contact resolution

• Guided students/faculty on 3D prints, reinforced Fusion 360 models, tuned PrusaSlicer(-25% waste), and supported Adobe CC, mics, mixers, live A/V

DXC Technology Bengaluru, India

Associate Professional Software Engineer Jul 2021 – Aug 2023

• Managed VMware vSphere 7.0 estate for a global bank 600+ clusters, 25k VMs, fully integrated with AD, vSAN, NSX-T

• Led a zero-downtime upgrade of 2,000+ ESXi hosts to vSphere 7.0, maintaining network stability and security

• Wrote vRO JavaScript workflows to migrate & upgrade VMs, hosts & clusters with storage+network, cutting effort 40%

• Migrated 1,200 VMs via vMotion and halved host-patch time with a Jenkins-based CI/CD PowerCLI pipeline

• Enhanced PowerCLI / Python / Ansible tools to export vCenter events to CSV for capacity & health reporting Projects

TrailIQ-IN: Pan-India Trek Analytics Platform

• Built ETL pipeline: ingested/merged/geocoded 800+ treks + automated climate pulls, stored PostgreSQL/Parquet

• Built interactive Dash/Plotly app with 4 dynamically linked views (search/filters) enabling exploration of these treks

• Containerized Dash analytics app + React frontend with Figma/Lottie UI using Docker for reproducible deployments Analysis of Car Damage for Personal Auto Claim using CNN

• Engineered a VGG16 car-damage classifier in TensorFlow with 90% accuracy, reducing claim processing time by 60–70%

• Scraped 10,000+ images with Selenium and shipped a Flask web application plus REST inference endpoints for adjusters

• Led a 4 member team, task planning, data prep, training, and live conference demo delivering ahead of schedule

• Published work in Sentiment Analysis and Deep Learning, Proceedings of ICSADL 2021, Part of book series - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 26 Oct 2021, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-***-**-****-1_25 Technical Skills

Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, C

Frameworks: TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, XGBoost Web & Visualization: HTML5/CSS3, Node.js, React.js, Vue.js, D3.js, Flask, Dash/Plotly, Figma, Tableau Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, PostGIS

DevOps/IaC & Cloud: Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Git AWS, GCP, VMware vSphere, Linux Others

VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization; VMware vSphere, VMs, networking, and storage [2022] Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer; orchestrate full lifecycle of enterprise solutions in the cloud [2022] Facilitated peer learning in technical and ethics courses (Advanced Web Programming, Cybersecurity, and Cyber Laws and Ethics) as a Teaching Assistant, fostering collaboration and comprehension for improved student outcomes

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