1. Prashant Kumar
Mobile: (515) 708-5955 Email: prashantnov87@gmail.com
Address: 10 Manhattan Ave. New York, NY 10025 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/prashant4nov
EDUCATION
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Aug. 2014 - Dec 2016
Master of Science in Computer Science GPA: 3.59/4.0
Relevant Coursework: Algorithm, Database Systems, Advanced Topics in Database, Theory of Computation, Operating
System and Network Security
GGSIP University, New Delhi, India Aug. 2006 - May 2010
Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology CGPA: 8.08/10
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming: Java, Python, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5/CSS3, XML, Neo4j Cypher, SQL, Apache Pig
Tools/Technologies: Google Cloud, Google APIs, GWT, RESTful web services, Django, Backbone.js, Hadoop
MapReduce, Azkaban, JSP, JUnit, PyUnit, Git, AWS, Docker, Apache Tomcat, MySQL, AppEngine NoSQL, Neo4j
EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer Co-op (Data), PlaceIQ, New York, NY Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
Consumer Location Analytics: Java, JUnit, Python, Apache Hadoop, Pig, Avro, Azkaban, JIRA
Residential data filtering: Implemented data pipeline to cleanse and structure consumer raw data using internal
device graph to retrieve consumers with residential information and help marketers understand consumer journey
Location Intelligence: Implemented pipeline to update schema of consumer movement data to avro format
Research & Teaching Assistant, Computational Media Lab, ISU, Ames Aug 2015 - Sept 2016
Graph data modeling for political communication on Twitter: Python, Neo4j, Twitter Search API, App Engine
Designed and developed tool for communication scholars to study political communication on Twitter among US
presidential candidates, state reporters, house representatives, senates and senators
Software Engineer (Consultant), Google India via Kelly IT May 2010 - May 2014
Google Developers site: Python, PyUnit, Django, JQuery, JsUnit, JSON, Backbone.js, App Engine, MySQL
Developer Relations Dashboard: Developed Dashboard for Google Developers Managers to track activity of
Google products such as Android, Chrome with external community on Google+, Twitter, GitHub, YouTube &
Stack Overflow. Integrated Dashboard with Google Developers site with 100% unit & integration test cases.
Mentored new joiners to work on Dashboard
iGoogle site: Java, JSP, Servlet, JUnit, jQuery, GWT, HTML, XML, JSON, OAuth, App Engine
YouTube Gadget: Developed YouTube gadget latest version (having over 10 million users) for users to view, play,
search videos, check history of played videos and check recommended videos on iGoogle homepage
Flood-it! Gadget: Optimized Flood-it! Gadget code to reduce loading time of the gadget on iGoogle
Live Preview Support: Implemented live preview support in iGoogle for YouTube, To-Do and twmap gadget
INTERNSHIPS
Software Developer Intern, Pearson Education, Iowa City, Iowa June 2015 - Aug. 2015
StatsAgg Monitoring Tool: Java, Servlet, JUnit, Mockito, Tomcat, MySQL, Docker, AWS EC2 Container Service
Implemented API layer for metric aggregation and alerting platform used at Pearson to send email alerts in case of
any abnormality on online test applications and deployed StatsAgg docker container on AWS
Research Intern, UAS, Technikum-Wien, Austria June 2009 - July 2009
Healthy Interoperability: Java, XML, HTML, CSS
Developed module using Java and XML for conversion of IEEE 11073 data into HL7 Clinical Document
Architecture format according to PHMR implementation guide
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Pairwise Document Similarity: Java, Hadoop MapReduce
Developed application to compute pairwise similarity on large document collections using Hadoop MapReduce
Secure Aging at Home: Java, Android, Google Cloud Messaging
Developed android application to receive alerts by elderly in case of any security threat at home
Automatic Detection of Diabetes: Java
Developed application to determine if Artificial Neural Networks can be used for diabetes diagnosis. Neural
Network trained with 200 sample data had specificity of 82.14% and sensitivity of 88.8%
