I am a Master of Science student pursuing an MS in Information Sciences and Technologies at Rochester Institute of Technology. I have worked for about 4 years as a Senior Software Engineer at Attra Infotech Pvt. Ltd.
During my stint at Attra Infotech Pvt. Ltd., I had an extensive range of responsibilities including code development, optimization of the developed code, ensuring timely delivery of newly developed features. As a Senior Software Engineer, I was not only required to have excellent communication skills, an understanding of data structures and algorithms, sound skills in Java but also knowledge of SQL, PL/SQL. I got the opportunity to work at the MasterCard office which was our client, gain vast exposure to the payment and card domain. During my four-year tenure at Attra, I applied these skills daily and performed exceptionally, and was acknowledged by a ‘Spot Award’ from the company’s IT Head.
I began with a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, India. I am currently following it up with a master’s degree in Information sciences and Technologies at Rochester Institute of Technology. I am fond of software development and worked on various software development projects as group projects and as individual work. I have learned various subjects related to data science. I have learned Information retrieval and text mining
subject. This subject involves various topics related to IR, text mining, and NLP. In this course, I have learned various algorithms such as positional indexing, inverted index computation, Vector Space Model, text Classification, and clustering. I have worked on
a project named ‘Candidate Job Profile Score Predictor’ in which we calculated the score for the candidate’s job profile based on the job skills requirements of the company. I have learned an introduction to data mining subject which had various topics such as classification, clustering, association rule mining. I have worked on a NoSQL database such as MongoDB, graph databases such as Noe4j. Currently, I am learning subjects such as Data Warehousing, IoT Analytics, and Data-Driven Knowledge Discovery which consists of concepts related to machine learning, exposure to R language, SAS, and Pentaho software.