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Abhinav Sharma
Github
LinkedIn
Flat-458, Pocket-1, DDA SFS
Flats, Sector-9, Dwarka, New
Delhi-110075
(+91) 9650691024
abhi18av@outlook.com
CAREER OBJECTIVE
I aim to work closely with the product team and contribute my
skills and experience to make an impact. I enjoy two specific areas
- Front-end Engineering
- Data Science / Big Data Analytics
Though, being from a startup background, I also have experience
in DevOps, SysAdmin and Leadership roles as well.
EXPERIENCE
Fulcro, conda-force, nf-core - Open Source Contributor
June 2019 - Present
I’ve been an active contributor to open source community in various
projects. Some highlights
● Contributed a new public APIs (Closure “namespaces” support) for
client-side, state-management in Fulcro ReactJS framework.
● Made various other contributions in the Fulcro ecosystem and
documented my learnings in a YouTube playlist
● Created a pre-processor macro for the ASCIIDOC authoring format
for automated porting of Fulcro docs examples.
● Contributor and maintainer of various packages using DevOps tools
like conda-force and NixOS
● Collaborated with Chan-Zuckerburg foundation and University of
Rio de Janeiro research fellows to setup and design all DevOps work
for nextflow pipelines on nf-core, for big data (genomic) research.
AlumnAI Academy, [Remote - Bangalore - Mauritius] —
Head of Product
March 2019 - June 2019
AlumnAI helps top universities build curriculum and recruit teachers for
their AI and Data Science Master's degree programs.
● Managed a team of 5 AI specialists to design and develop the AI and
data-science curriculum material using TensorFlow, Scikit-learn.
● Implemented an agile-based approach to curriculum development
(sprints, weekly retrospection and demos etc)
● Did user and competitor research to optimize the student
experience.
ABOUT ME
Persistent, Curious, Hard
Working and Resourceful :)
SKILLS
DevOps: AWS, Digital Ocean,
Localstack
Languages: JavaScript,
Python, Clojure
Libraries and Frameworks:
ReactJS, Redux, Fulcro,
Tensorflow, Scikit-learn,
Pandas, Searborn
Databases: MySQL, Neo4J,
Firebase
Others: Git, Github
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology,
Computer Science
Delhi Technological
University. (Indian “Ivy
League” University)
AUGUST 2012 - JULY 2016
Engineering Fellow
Pesto 2019
AWS Machine Learning
Specialist Certification
Udacity A.I. Nanodegree
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Devnagri (devnagri.com), [Noida - UP, India] — Chief
Technology O cer
January 2018 - February 2019
An AI driven localization tool for Indian languages (Hindi, Punjabi,
Bengoli, etc).
● Lead the 15 person engineering and design teams.
● Worked closely with key large B2B customers and product team to
inform product decisions and roadmap.
● Built an NLP engine to do initial translations, cross-platform CLI
tool, web scrapers, data transformation services, etc
● Was deeply involved in recruiting, performance reviews, salary
decisions and promotion of employees.
● Represented the company at various conferences like FICCI India,
ILIA and Rise Conf 2018 (APAC’s biggest tech conference).
Tech Stack: Spacy, Keras, TensorFlow, AWS, Neo4J, Clojure, Python,
Beautiful Soup
Fourtek (IT) Solutions, [Noida - UP, India] — Machine
Learning Engineer
AUGUST 2017 - DECEMBER 2017
● Implemented custom parsers in Spacy fork for Indian languages like
Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi etc.
● Designed the implementation pipeline for automated translations
before final corrections by hired human translators.
● Was eventually promoted to CTO when the internal project I was
building, was spun o into its own company (see Devnagri above).
Tech Stack: Spacy, Keras, TensorFlow, AWS, Python
Educational Sabbatical
AUGUST 2016 - JULY 2017
● I took a sabbatical following my stint at Peoplemetrix Pvt. Ltd. and I was
laser focused on gaining knowledge about various aspects of startup
engineering.
● Completed over 60 scholarships and certifications from Coursera,
which are listed here on my Github.
● I was later invited to be a student mentor, forum admin and reviewer on
the platform.
Peoplemetrix, [Noida - UP, India] — Co-Founder and Chief
Technology O cer
AUGUST 2015 - JULY 2016
Built a tool to drastically decrease the time taken for startup investing
due-diligence process.
● Fetch and visualize company data from various sources like
LANGUAGES
Hindi, English, Portuguese
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES (part-time and
opt-in)
Technical reviewer for Packt
Publications, books and
accompanying author videos
for titles like scikit-learn
recipes and advanced-vim.
Mentored a cohort of 15
students for the Udacity AI
NanoDegree with 13
completing the term.
Weekend faculty for
International School of Data
Science and Artificial
Intelligence giving remote
lectures.
3.
LinkedIn, Owler, etc.
● Built a visual comparison dashboard to make it easy to quickly
gauge a startup in a comparative manner.
Tech Stack: D3.js, BackboneJS, Flask, MySql
ACHIEVEMENTS IN ACADEMIA
Contributed knowledge of DevOps to a globally distributed team
for big data analysis, resulting in the following publications.
● A Pilot Study for Phylogenetic Assessment of Mycobacterium bovis
from Marajó Island, Brazil, based on Whole Genome Sequencing
● Analysis of potential household transmission events of tuberculosis
in the city of Belem, Brazil - Elsevier
An Analytical Study to Find the Major Factors Behind the Great
Smog of Delhi, 2016: Using Fundamental Data Sciences -
Springer
● Mentored a couple undergraduates towards various techniques of
Exploratory Data Analysis, resulting in a conference presentation and
publication.