Jan 2021 – Apr 2021 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led software development on an automatic database failover using Agile methodologies. Reduced the failover time from a 30 minute manual to 5 minutes automated, scalable and reliable failover process of Securities Database.
• Collaborated with DBAs to design an automatic failover mechanism focusing on scalability and correctness. Deployed 5-node ETCD clusters as coordination and locking service to manage 300 databases per ETCD cluster.
• Delivered a Python library with good documentation and test coverage and an automatic CI/CD pipeline to deploy updates within 20 minutes. Deployed a gRPC based solution for efficient inter-process communication.

Jun 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Merced County, California, United States

• Researched literature for generative and style transfer methods to produce caricatures from real face images.
• Created a real-to-caricature labeled face dataset with more than 200 celebrities and 40k images.
• Programmed the best 3 state-of-the-art models in Tensorflow - Neural Style Transfer, CycleGAN, and Domain Transfer Network to compare over the dataset.

Oct 2016 – Jan 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · Greater Lucknow Area

• Analyzing the training dynamics of traditional and Wasserstein GAN protocols under several synthetic settings.
• Developed a new robust protocol which has much faster convergence rates.
• Creating new algorithms to optimize any desired combination of loss functions for a simple GAN.