Resume

1. arun.pokharna@gmail.com https://sites.google.com/site/arunpokharna
+1-817-899-4001 Arun Kumar Pokharna 201 S 4th St, APT 539.San Jose, CA. 95112.
OBJECTIVE: Seeking a challenging position in Data Science/Engineering, Software Development/Engineering field (Open for relocation).
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Accenture Ltd. (January 2010-July 2013)
Senior Software Engineer (Java,DB2, ETL)
o Worked as a Backend Application Developer for Telefonica.
o Involved in low level design, build,peer review, and unittesting of given requirements specifications.
o Saved ~30 hours per week of manual work by automating integration test validation processes.
o Mentored a team of 5 junior programmers and peer reviewed their assignments.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Predicting Human Behavior Based on Survey Response Patterns Using Markov and Hidden Markov Model (Aug 2016 – Dec 2016)
Graduate Research Assistant, UT Arlington (Python, MATLAB, MySQL)
o Designed and developed a prediction model usingK-means clusteringfollowed by Markov and Hidden Markov Models.
o Developed customized distancefunction and simulated annealingfor weights optimization in K-means clustering.
ARIBO – Robotic Research LLC (June 2015 – Aug 2016)
Graduate Research Assistant,UT Arlington (C++, PHP, MySQL, JSON, RapidJSON, Socket, CURL, and Git)
o Developed Android App based rideschedulingsystemthrough autonomous vehicles in a controlled environment.
o Availableon Google Play as “ARIBO”.
o Worked in team of 3 members.
o Responsiblefor writingC++ and PHP Scripts thathandles communication (used sockets and HTTP Requests) between reservation
server, scheduler server, and Android App.
Teleherence-SVP (Student Veterans Project) (June 2014 – May 2015)
Graduate Research Assistant,UT Arlington (PHP, JavaScript,JQuery, CCXML, VXML, Python, MySQL, Git)
o Maintained and enhanced Web-Phone-Computer based survey application (Teleherence) that sends out surveys on cell phones
through voice callsand text messages.
o Developed web services for the android interfaceof Teleherence.
o Tested SMS survey schedulingfunctionality for Teleherence.
SKILLS
Programming Languages: Java,Python, C++, MATLAB, and R programming.
Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript, Node, JSON, and XML.
Databases: MySQL, Oracle11G,MongoDB, and DB2.
Others: Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Heron, HIVE, Pig, WEKA, AWS, Google App Engine, Agile, RapidJSON,CURL, Maven, and Git.
EDUCATION
Masters in Computer Science| University of Texas at Arlington| Arlington, TX Graduation: Dec 2016
Thesis: PredictingHuman Behavior based on Survey responses usingMarkov and Hidden Markov Models. Advisor: David Levine
RELEVANT COURSEWORK: Data Analysisand Modeling,Design and Analysis of Algorithms,Data Mining,Cloud Computing, DatabaseSystems,
Software Engineering, Software Testing, Distributed Systems, and MachineLearning.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Jobs Recommendation System (individual project) (Java)
o Designed and developed Jobs Recommendation System for users by consideringthe similarities between the users (demographics,
education, and previous job experience) and previous job applications.
o Ranked recommended jobs ordered on their similarity score.
Unsupervised Learning on Jobs Dataset using K-means Clustering (individual project) (Java,StanfordCoreNLP JAR, RegEx)
o Implemented K-means clusteringto find similar kind of jobs from a jobs dataset.
o Filtered the information from HTML tags by using StanfordCoreNLP JAR and RegEx.
Textual data analysis through Map Reduce using Hadoop (individual project) (Java, Hadoop, Map-Reduce)
o Analyzed languagecomplexity of text books from different centuries using Hadoop framework.
o Analyzed the execution time taken for various combinations of Mappers and Reducers.
UTA Housing Android App (team project) (Eclipse,Java,PHP, MySQL, JSON)
o Developed Android App to enable users to apply as well as find the waitingnumber of their housingapplication.
o Used Pair programming technique and did role reversal after each iteration to gain experience of all SoftwareDevelopment Phases.
o Led a 5 member team and was involved in application design,coding,and testing phases in different increments.
HACKTHON ATTENDED
o Participated in HackDFW-2015 in spring2015 and builta projectthat detects the hand motions (American Sign Language) using
LEAP and convert itto the correspondingalphabet.
CERTIFICATIONS
Application Developer from Massachusetts Instituteof Technology and A2 level certification from DELE-India for Spanish language.