Balaji Baskaran is a computer science graduate seeking a job. He has a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati and a Bachelor's in Computer Science and Engineering from SASTRA University in India. He has 3 years of experience as a Software Developer at TATA Consultancy Services in India where he designed and developed various systems. He is proficient in many programming languages and technologies. He has completed several academic projects involving mobile app development, machine learning, web scraping, and chat systems. He has published a paper and received several awards for his work.

1. BALAJI BASKARAN
baskarbi@mail.uc.edu (513) 510 2486 433 Donahue place, Milpitas CA 95035
EDUCATION
Masters in Computer Science GPA: 3.53/4.0
University of Cincinnati, OH Nov 2016
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering GPA: 3.57/4.0
SASTRA University, India Jun 2011
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
TATA Consultancy Services, India Aug 2011 – Jul 2014
Software Developer
● Designed and developed Customer Output Systems which receives data from various technologies like Java, Web and
Mainframes
● Performed end to end management of the Outputs and Policy Key-in tool for the Lloyds Bank and Scottish Widows Insurance
● Owned direct customer requirements and escalations as a Subject Matter Expert in Output Systems
● Created Knowledge sharing articles to help peers understand and analyze the interaction of technologies in output generation
module
● Supported production issues and assisted QA team in fixing critical bug fixes that had a direct impact on business
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages and Technologies
Java, J2EE, Hibernate, JavaScript, PHP, Node JS, Android, HTML/CSS, XML, Python, R, SQL, NoSQL, Hadoop HDFS, Flink, Spark,
Storm, Docker, AWS, Google Cloud, Kafka
Tools: Android Studio, Eclipse, XCode IDE, Process Monitor, Wireshark
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
App for Smoking cessation – iOS, swift2.0, Sqlite3
● Developed an iOS Application for Smoking Cessation project that helps doctors understand the patient’s stage of smoking and
previous medications
● Designed a simple and elegant interface to facilitate a seamless user experience and to suit the patients of all age
● Analyzed and debugged the data and feedback collected from test patients to improve the functionality of the application
Counteracting Update Attack on Android – Android, Java
 Developed an Android Application which tracks user installed apps and rates the dangerous level of the update
 Built a machine learning knowledge base with extracted features from malicious files to score the dangerous level of the update
E scrapper – Java, JAX-RS, Jersey, Docker
 Built an E-scrapper Java module that crawls through the list of websites and gets the details of the products
 Used Docker to pickle the application so that it can be ported to any system and can be run in multi-platform environment
 Deployed the service in Google app engine
Multi User chat System – Node.JS, Socket.io, HTML, CSS
 Built a multi user chat system using Node. JS, Socket.io
 Enables users to join and leave a chat room, public chat and private chat session with individual users
 Deployed the app in Heroku
Twitter Analysis – Python, Google Maps, Google App Engine
 Built a Google App Engine system to analyze the Twitter data real time and get the most relevant tweets about a hash tag
 Used Google App Engine and Google Maps API to fetch the location co-ordinates of the tweets to understand the geographic
spread out
Novel Path Planning of Robots based on Bi-Directional Ant Colony Algorithm – Java
 Implemented a simulation in Java where a playground was converted into many grids
 Used a probability function that calculated which grid to pass in order to reach destination in optimal time
PUBLICATIONS
Balaji Baskaran, Anca Ralescu, “A study of Android Malware Detection Techniques and Machine Learning”, MAICS 2016
ACHIEVEMENTS
● On the Spot award (for Delivery Excellence and automation of Output system) TCS, 2013
● Excellence award (for coordinating my Learning Group, Initial Learning Program) TCS, 2011
● Dean's List Award (Top 10% in the University during the senior year of my undergrad), SASTRA University, 2010