RESUME

EDUCATION

Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad

B. Tech Computer Science Engineering • May 2020

GPA of 3.87/4.0 with a concentration on Data Analytics, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Department Rank: 3, Institute Rank: 4

Central Board of Secondary Education

12th Grade (Math and Science) • May 2016

98% Karnataka State Rank: 1 of 200,000
All India Rank 7 of ~1.2 million

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Developer

Nasdaq, Bengaluru• July 2020 - Present

•   Develop software (full-stack) handling customer-facing market data for www.nasdaq.com, with the Global Web Services team, operating out of Bengaluru and New York City.
•   Develop APIs to interact with Drupal CMS and large-scale databases to enable real-time news feeds on the Nasdaq Quotes app.
•   Redesign iMessage architecture and led development leveraging latest Agile methodology considering ‘Time to Market’ a priority

Freelancer - ML/AI and Business Applications

Bengaluru• Spring 2018 - Present

•  Develop efficient Machine Learning algorithms for individuals and companies for academic & industrial use cases. Algorithms implemented:
     — Genetic & Memetic Algorithms
     — Particle Swarm Optimization
     — Hyperparameter Fitting
     — Classification and Categorization
•  Full-stack development of a web-based business application for a growing fresh-produce start-up to handle growth systematically. Communicated continuously with the client for planning, requirements, design, content and hosting.
     — Designed a User-Friendly UI ensuring a great user experience, covering end to end shopping process including POS, order delivery, product inventory management and admin features
     — Driven by a comprehensive relational DB, site secured through access controls

Internship + Student Contractor

Nasdaq Bengaluru• June 2019 - February 2020

•   iMessage - Real-time Stock Quotes & Stats: Successfully developed an iOS application, with end to end responsibility, including requirement analysis, design specifications, development and distribution
•  Enhanced User Experience: Worked seamlessly across geographies (Bangalore, New York City, Los Angeles) and teams, including Design, Digital Marketing in bringing out a world-class user-friendly app extension to iMessage
•  Conducted Market Research and User Experience/Interface revamp for Nasdaq Quotes app

Teaching Assistant

Physics: Undergrad course • January 2017 - May 2017

Conducted Classes, Quizzes and Tutorial sessions and assisted Dr. CV Tomy, Dept. of Physics, IIT Mumbai, in Electricity and Magnetism course.

Skills

ML/AI & DATA

PYTHON

NUMPY

KERAS

TENSORFLOW

DEVELOPMENT

C++

BASH

JAVA

APP DEVELOPMENT

FLUTTER

DART

SWIFT

WEB TECHNOLOGIES

PHP

HTML-CSS-JS

DRUPAL

DESIGN

ADOBE XD

FIGMA

PROJECTS

THESIS & RESEARCH

An Analysis of Deep Q-Networks and Applications of Generative Adversarial Networks in Reinforcement Learning B. Tech Thesis, Spring 2020

An extensive research into state-of-the-art Reinforcement Learning algorithms including Deep Q-Networks, and its variants on OpenAI Gym. ... Research on Generative Models specifically Generative Adversarial Networks, and their applications in the field of Computer Vision and Reinforcement Learning. Implemented the novel concept of generating and simulating Markov Decision Processes using GANs. READ MORE

GUIDE: Dr. Prabuchandran K J

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Predicting the next Billboard Chart Topper Fall 2019

Classification of songs using multi-feature Machine Learning classification techniques and analysis of the performance of algorithms (Logistic Regression, SVMs, Neural Networks, Random Forest, Naive Bayes) based on performance ... on the Billboard Top 100 charts. Predictive Modelling - Achieved 85% accuracy predicting which newly released songs will be chart toppers. Weights of the model learned obtained provided crucial insights on features of song that makes it a hit. Used Conjunctive Feature Creation and Feature Importance Sampling using Extremely Random Trees to improve performance of model (Technologies used: Python, Numpy, Keras) READ MORE

GUIDES: Dr. S R Mahadeva Prasanna, Dr. Bharath B N, Dr. Naveen M B

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Seminar on Real-Time Operating Systems Spring 2019

Analysed real-time operating systems (RTOSs) including multitasking models for RTOSs. ... Researched RTOS kernels and priority-based scheduling algorithms in detail READ MORE

GUIDE: Dr. Rajshekar K

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Breaking down UG students’ Internet usage data Fall 2017

Surveyed a diverse group of smartphone users on campus to obtain internet usage statistics by application and clustered this data into buckets like Social Media, Entertainment, Games, Research, etc. ... Applied Machine Learning and Data Analysis techniques including Regression and extrapolation to scale the problem to the national level, with inferences useful to Internet Service Providers to align their solutions for efficient and speedy mobile data plans and services. READ MORE

GUIDE: Dr. S R Mahadeva Prasanna

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TECHNICAL PROJECTS

SnapSeek Spring 2020, Parsec 2020 - IIT Dharwad Techfest

An AI-powered Software solution, which annotates YouTube videos ... to provide timestamps of keyword occurences within the video, along with sentiment analysis based on tone in video. NLP models for sentiment analysis, video transcription and annotation. READ MORE

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MarketSense Fall 2020, NasdHack 2020

NLP-powered Software to bring Nasdaq’s market data and market sentiment to any website on the entire internet... Bloom-filter powered algorithm auto-highlights stock symbols on webpage; intuitive user-friendly experience with simple hover provides instant market data along with Analyst Prediction of High/Low prices. READ MORE

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A cost-effective smart video-conferencing camera system Fall 2018

Created a low-cost (under $100) smart solution to the video conferencing problem with automatic rotation in the direction... of the speaker using sound localisation techniques. Used time-delay of speech signals between multiple microphones of a microphone array to get the angle of the speech signal to point the camera in the obtained angle. Time-delay was calculated from the Hilbert envelope of the LP residual of all the speech inputs from the microphones. The method used had significantly better performance than the commonly used Generalised Cross Correlation (GCC). READ MORE

GUIDE: Dr. S R Mahadeva Prasanna

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AI Bot to play Reversi (Othello) Spring 2019

Designed a completely autonomous bot that learns to play the game of Reversi (Othello).... Bot uses classical AI algorithms coupled with self-designed heuristic lookahead search (Technology used: C++) READ MORE

GUIDE: Dr. Deepak Khemani, Dr. Kedar Khandeparkar

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Vishaal Farm Fresh Summer 2018 Visit Vishaal!

Full-stack development of a web-based solution for a growing fresh-produce start-up... to handle growth systematically. Communicated continuously with the client for planning, requirements, design, content and hosting. Designed a User-Friendly UI ensuring a great user experience, covering end to end shopping process including billing, order delivery, product inventory management with admin features as well. Driven by a comprehensive relational database, site secured through access controls. (Technologies used: PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax, MySQL) READ MORE

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Adhokshaja Madhwaraj

Senior Software Developer @ Nasdaq

ABOUT ME

RESUME

EDUCATION

Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad

Central Board of Secondary Education

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Software Developer

Freelancer - ML/AI and Business Applications

Internship + Student Contractor

Teaching Assistant

Skills

PROJECTS

THESIS & RESEARCH

TECHNICAL PROJECTS

ACHIEVEMENTS