Sep 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Sep 2021 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Dec 2018 – Aug 2021 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Nov 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Aug 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Jul 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr · Bangalore Area, India

Apr 2014 – Jun 2014 · 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on the problem of aspect (facet) level sentiment analysis and aggregation of sentiments across several aspects. Proposed and implemented a model that generalizes assumptions about the organization of the aspects, defined several features for aspect-level aggregation and supports aggregation of sentiments spread across documents.

Jan 2010 – Feb 2014 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked on the re-design and development of the Model Repository component for a product in the smart waters area. Based on the Jena 2.x library and DB2RDF (the triple store for IBM DB2), the component achieved an order of magnitude improvement in the running time and made real-time model updates possible.
• Played a key role in designing and developing industry standard (based on OPC specification) adapters, for real-time and historical data acquisition. The design resulted in huge savings for IBM.
• As a subject matter expert of IBM IIC, deployed solutions for major chemical and petroleum industries in India and Norway.

May 2007 – Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Collaborated with the research team in IBM Haifa, in building business event handling capability into the IBM Integrated Information Core (IIC) product. The system (patent filed at US PTO) allowed business users to declaratively define and manage complex event scenarios at runtime.
• Spoke at several conferences including IBM AoT Collaboration (``Collaboration with Open APIs''), IMPACT 2009 (``Predictive models for using Event Driven Architecture''), RTLE 2008 (``Leveraging Event Driven Architecture for Business Activity Monitoring and Management using Complex Event Processing''), and the Manufacturing event.
• As a solution architect, built solutions and engaged in technical pre-sales for several customers in chemical and petroleum and process industries.
• Contributed to the IBM Smarter Planet initiative and built solutions that addressed information integration and real-time monitoring challenges in the smart waters space. Worked on an IBM BizTech project - ``Water analysis, dashboarding and events''.

Jan 2012 – Dec 2017 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Machine learning and its application to information extraction and retrieval.
• Practical applications like information extraction, retrieval, machine translation, to name a few,
• might benefit from autonomous machine learning models, aided by user preferences. Interactive machine learning opens up promising avenues while posing research challenges in designing
• appropriate tools and algorithms. Studying and addressing these, is the primary focus of my
• current research.

Jun 2006 – Apr 2007 · 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• As a lead technical architect, designed and developed enterprise solutions for several clients in the financial domain. Also performed design and code reviews for other projects, with key focus on performance and quality of deliverables.
• Continued to deliver technical trainings, contributed to training material for other in-house trainers and assisted in the recruitment process.

Mar 2005 – Dec 2005 · 9 mos

• Led a project aimed at designing and developing several key functional and non-functional enhancements to the GISMO application. In addition to technical direction, my responsibilities also included project planning, tracking and customer interaction.

Jun 2003 – Feb 2005 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Worked as a module lead in designing and developing a module of the GISMO enterprise application, for a major client in financial services domain. Later, took complete ownership of the application, in ensuring its successful roll-out and production support.
• As part of in-house training, conducted several trainings and workshops on various topics from core Java and enterprise Java. Also assisted the recruitment team on several occasions by conducting technical interviews.