Hoshang Varshney is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a Master of Information Systems Management degree and Birla Institute of Technology & Science with a Master of Science in Information Systems degree. He has skills in languages like Java, R, SQL, and Python and frameworks including Spring, Hibernate, Hadoop, and Spark. His academic projects involved Twitter analytics on AWS EMR, Wikipedia trend analysis on AWS EMR, and Twitter user ranking using Apache Spark. His work experience includes developing systems using technologies like Spring, Hibernate, Flex, MongoDB, and jQuery at Citigroup and Reflexis Systems India.

1. Hoshang Varshney
+1 631-992-1063 | hvarshne@andrew.cmu.edu | www.linkedin.com/in/hoshangvarshney
Education
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Master of Information Systems Management (GPA 3.82/4.00) May 2015 - May 2016
Relevant Courses: (15619) Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Advanced Relational Database Management
Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, India
Master of Science (Technology) Information Systems (BS equivalent) (GPA 3.53/4.00) July 2007 - July 2011
Skills
Languages: Java, R, SQL, Python, HTML, JavaScript
Frameworks: Spring, Hibernate, PureMVC, Hadoop, Spark
Databases: Oracle 11g, MongoDB, HBase
Certifications: Oracle Certified Professional Java SE 6 Programmer (Apr 2012)
Academic Projects (Fall 2015)
Twitter Analytics Web Service using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
 Performed ETL to sanitize 1TB of tweets and store in MySQL and HBase.
 Tweaked MySQL to improve query performance.
 Developed web services to retrieve results of analytic SQL and HBase queries.
Wikipedia Trend Analysis
 Implemented MapReduce programming model using Python to identify trending topics on Wikipedia’s 70 GB hourly
log data. Performed analysis using AWS EMR platform.
Twitter User Rank Calculation
 Implemented PageRank algorithm using Apache Spark to rank Twitter users based on their influence.
Data Model for Construction Builder Company
 Designed and developed data model, database schema, DDLs, DMLs, triggers and procedures to implement business
constraints and scheduled reports using Oracle SQL tools.
Work Experience
Programmer Analyst 2 | Citigroup Inc. Mar 2013 – Apr 2015
 Eliminated the need for email communication between Front Office users and Risk Analysts by developing Special Credit
Exposure Factor (SCEF) Request System using Apache Flex, Spring and Hibernate frameworks.
 Undertook scheduled releases, customer support for SCEF and led SCEF knowledge transfer sessions for Shanghai team.
Software Engineer | Reflexis Systems India Pvt. Ltd. July 2011 – Mar 2013
 Developed StorePulse platform to automate retail store operations in response to real-time and unplanned events.
Programmed multi-threaded Java components with MongoDB as backend for the platform.
 Guided a multi team effort to integrate existing Reflexis products with StorePulse. This integration helped to automate
real-time events from StorePulse to actionable alerts leading to increased revenues and productivity.
 Designed an innovative calendar module using jQuery, web services in SOAP and REST frameworks for StorePulse.
Intern | eBay India Jan 2011 – June 2013
 Automated the validation process of e-mail templates by developing E-mail Validation System.
 Optimized validation process time from 3-4 days to 4-5 hours.