Varad Bhogayata

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Education
Arizona State University, USA January 2021 – December 2022
Master of Science in Computer Science GPA: 4.0/4.0
Relevant Coursework: Cloud Computing, Distributed Database Systems, Foundations of Algorithms
Ahmedabad University, India July 2014 – May 2018
Bachelor of Technology in Information and Communication Technology GPA: 3.13/4.33

Skills
Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, HTML/CSS, Bash
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Libraries: NumPy, Pandas, OpenCV
Frameworks: Flask, Django, Node.js, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Bootstrap, Apache Beam
Tools & Technologies: Git, Docker, AWS, GCP, Heroku, JIRA
Experience
Zhiffy July 2020 – November 2020
Software Engineer
• Developed and managed the backend of an e-commerce platform using Flask, MongoDB, and AWS.
• Worked on three web applications targeting customers, selling vendors, and admin users; built 50+ RESTful APIs with functionalities
such as login/sign up, view a product, add a product to cart, checkout the order, etc.
• Improved the response time by 20% by refactoring the codebase and changing database design and queries.
• Added a bulk upload feature which reduced the manual work of adding products into a database.
Meditab Software Pvt. Ltd. December 2018 – August 2019
Programmer Analyst
• Customized a tree-based optimization algorithm that separates drugs into distinct groups to maximize the concurrent execution of drug
dispenser robots; improved an optimization algorithm that reduced the cycle-time of the automation process by 25%.
• Devised a customized recursion algorithm to extend the functionality of the current environment to a multi-robot and multi-system
environment.
• Built a modular video analytics app using Flask, OpenCV that tracks the location of each human in a multi-camera environment;
utilized perspective transformation, object detection, and object tracking to find the location of a human.
• Increased the speed of the video analytics app by 20% by using a customized YOLOv3 algorithm to perform object detection and
DeepSORT algorithm for multi-object tracking.
Mtag Innovations July 2018 – November 2018
Software Developer
• Programmed a cloud-based web app using Flask and JavaScript aimed at storing, visualizing, and tracking temperature and humidity
of each drug container to estimate the degradation of the drug.
• Created an alert system to send notifications and emails when the parameters exceed the threshold.
Projects
Twitter Sentiment Analyzer ‡ March 2021 – April 2021
Tech Stack: Python, Django, GCP (GAE, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, DataFlow), HTML/CSS
• Developed an elastic web application using Google Cloud Platform APIs which provides sentiment analysis of trending songs and
movies by extracting top trending tweets; utilized Google App Engine for deployment and auto-scaling.
• Implemented the load generator to test the scalability of the application by generating 500 concurrent requests and 15000 user requests
using Apache Beam.
Image Recognition as a Service ‡ February 2021 – March 2021
Tech Stack: JavaScript, Node.js, Java, AWS (EC2, SQS, S3), HTML/CSS
• Architected an elastic image recognition web service that can autoscale up to 20 EC2 instances; created custom AMIs to get image
classification result; used SQS to handle request and response.
• Built a custom load balancer which improved the performance by 80% by using queuing mechanism.
• Tested the implementation of auto-scaling and load balancing by generating 1000 requests.
Music Streaming Web App ‡ June 2020 – June 2020
Tech Stack: Python, Django, Bootstrap, AWS (S3), Heroku, HTML/CSS
• Coded and deployed full-stack web app incorporating features like OAuth-based login/sign up, play songs, view detail of song, view
recently played songs, create multiple playlists, and search and filter songs based on singers and languages.