Oct 2020 – May 2024 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Developed a robust proctoring system to mitigate cheating in contests, reducing plagiarism from 30% to 10%. Implemented preventive measures against identified cheating methods & detection mechanisms for new methods, with automated repercussions for offenders. Ensured a seamless user experience by addressing hardware issues, webcam and screen-share permission issues faced by students.
• Community: Enabled peer-to-peer learning via group contests and social feed. Led end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to architecture design & development, ensuring successful feature adoption.
• Motivation: Designed & developed the backend for Lecture streaks (4% increase in live attendance, 2x increase in absentees watching lecture recording within 1 day), Leaderboard based on platform wide activity (~23% increase in overall assignment attempt rate).
• Led the product development for Placement portal, Assignments, Notification management, Target setting by mentors, Open courses.
• Streamlined evaluation for backend & frontend assignments with automated test case integration using Drone CI/CD, saving ~5 hours/day human effort.
• Built a chrome extension for hiring solutions that could evaluate candidates using Generative AI on interview audio with 87% accuracy.
• Hired and mentored across different teams - Software Engineer, Academics

Nov 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Responsible for overall growth and functioning of the batch.
• Framed the course structure, content and assignments
• Designed frameworks for assessment of students for placement process
• Trained interns in operations of overall progression process
• Coordinated with mentors & instructors to get insights on student journey.
• Designed and executed quality check strategy of lectures and mentor sessions
• Drove multiple initiatives to give students direction and to keep them motivated.
• Closely coordinated and brainstormed with the Newton School team all the while and to bring enhancements in the product.

Jun 2019 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · On-site

• Built Swagger APIs for Field extraction rules, to aid parsing of fields from log messages at the time of data ingestion.
• Built frontend for Dynamic Parsing, Field Browser and Economic Disruption projects.
• Worked on web performance optimizations for big JSON in search results
• Integrations tests

Jun 2018 – May 2019 · 11 mos · On-site

• Built custom JSON parser to resolve limitations of javascript in handling big integers
• Delivered multiple features across the entire app under the initiative of QuickWins.
• Subject matter expert for Sumo Search frontend
• Subject matter expert for all timezone and DST related implementations across the entire app.

Jun 2017 – Oct 2017 · 4 mos · India · On-site

• Enabled sharing and embedding of the Sumo dashboards through url.
• UI implementation required working with AngularJS and BackboneJS
• UI test automation using Jasmine