May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · Amherst

• Causality Detection in Social Networks: Researched the causal effects of user connections in social networks using deep variational auto-encoders for a large data set with millions of connections.

Aug 2017 – May 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Amherst, Massachusetts

Nov 2016 – Jul 2017 · 8 mos

• Responsible for Video relevance and engineering infrastructure surrounding it.

Jul 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• Working with the Content Filtering team to create a platform for keeping LinkedIn clean of spam.
• Integrated Ads on LinkedIn with the content filtering platform
• Hack day project to classify Ads using Support Vector Machine.
• Added throttling support for user content being marked as spam
• Trained and implemented classifier to classify images with nudity
• Recommendation model for company follows
• Trained an SVM based on bag of features and heavy based feature engineering
• Trained a classifier using Transfer Learning technique on CNN (Deep Learning) as an improvement
• Added a JNI wrapper for Caffe, library used to deploy the model online
• Adapted the existing human review pipeline to capture image labelled by humans
• Guided an Intern to experiment with word2vec for text classification
• Guided an Intern to develop a tool used to display words distribution using Latent Dirichlet Allocation
• Guided an Intern on training of a classifier to detect the presence of text using Transfer Learning on CNN
• Worked on migration of spam detection across various domains - Articles, Ads, Feed etc. to a newly built service
• Experience with offline analysis of data - Pig, Hadoop etc.
• Worked on multiple classifier integrations and training

Oct 2013 – Nov 2013 · 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Developing and designing a portal for lucky draw among the customers.
• Worked on OpenCart and MySQL DB to make modifications in order to incorporate the lucky draw contest.
• Worked closely with the co-founding team to determine and understand the requirements of the product.

Aug 2013 – Jul 2014 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Part of the co-founding team of the service based startup. Providing maid and cook services -
• Developed the website on LAMP stack using CakePHP web framework.
• Designed marketing flyers and overall marketing theme.
• Responsible for SMS and email based broadcast marketing. Designed and wrote content for the same.
• Actively participated in and developed pricing, operations, recruiting, business development and accounting processes for the company.
• Handled customer service pipeline - from first contact to service delivery.
• Deployed the website on AWS and set it up end to end.

May 2013 – Jun 2013 · 1 mo · Hyderabad Area, India

• Worked on an eclipse plugin to Rsync code from local to remote boxes, to overcome the time out issues on the local boxes.
• Project aimed at improving developer productivity for developers working remotely from the India office.
• The plugin displayed remote build output on the eclipse console and did a periodic sync between the codes across the local and remote boxes.

May 2012 – Jul 2012 · 2 mos · Pune Area, India

• Worked on prototyping MetrixLine's flagship product MetrixTrack, a Data analysis tool.
• Prototyped a NoSql tree based representation of data and implemented querying on the same to find Tree Intersections.
• Worked in a team of three to deliver the same.