Resume

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Mohit Kalra
+1-352-327-1608 | ​mohit.kalra@ufl.edu​ | ​LinkedIn​ | ​Github​ | ​Website
X230 Stoneridge Apartments, Gainesville, FL - 32608
My ability lies in solving challenging and scalability problems
around a software which deals with large amount of data;
documenting them professionally for use by immediate and
external team members to promote efficiency and
extensibility of the solution.
EDUCATION
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL Expected May ‘21
Master of Science(M.S) - Computer Science
Institute of Technology and Management, Gurgaon 2012-2016
Bachelor of Technology(B.Tech) - CSE ​GPA : 9.1/10
Capstone Project : A head up display for cars using Android
Links : ​Capstone Project Video​ | ​Capstone Project Motivation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Product Developer - Stratbeans Consulting Mar’18 - Apr’19
Data pipelining for data visualization in e-learning
-​ Implemented and designed a data pipeline for data ranging over ​40 million
rows/day​ with the ingestion rate of over ​10k rows/sec​.
- Implemented ​Hot-Warm Architecture​ in ES 5.x for efficient write speed of bulk
ingestion.
- Designed live and summary dashboards using Kibana for stakeholders to see
platform usage analytics, course analytics, assessment analytics etc. ​This improved
the overall reporting and decision making process by 70% ​as visualization
helped spot unusual activity.
- Wrote a custom error logging pipeline to warn developers of internal process
failures. ​This brought down escalated failures by 60%​.
Full Text Search Engine using ELK
- Designed an ​ETL workflow​ for document ingestion in Elasticsearch for document
extensions ranging across pdf, doc, ppt etc
- Implemented ​page relevancy​ using parent-child index relationship and TF-IDF
score given by ES Search API.
- ​Used the concept of document search engine to search transcripts of audios and
videos.
- ​Extracted transcripts from videos and audios using ​Google Speech-to-text API
and Google storage buckets.
- ​Wrote a ​search query cleanser,​ spelling corrector using ​levenshtein distance
using Python Flask and Python NLTK.
Design and Implementation of AI Chatbots
- Worked extensively on building AI chatbots using ​Google Dialogflow ​and​ Watson
Assistant.
- Designed a sales chatbot which could map a potential customer to one of our
services. ​This improved our sales by 40%​.
- Wrote backend APIs to actively train intents of conversations and push/pop
training phrases.
Software development on an e-learning product ​(Yii2 PHP, Angular2 and MySQL​)
- Developed a queue manager for printing offline papers of our online assessments
using ​celery task queue.
- Wrote a custom logic for line breaks and page break by extending open source
PDF library ​FPDF​.
- This service improved our customer experience by observing ​100k
downloads/day​ for a ​1.5 Million user base​.
- Implemented horizontal scaling of our e-learning platform using ​redis​ session
management and ​microservices
- ​Created a CICD pipeline for automated running of test cases and deployment using
jenkins​ and ​docker​.
Custom slack commands for automating AWS
- ​Automated quotidian AWS server tasks like scaling, restarts etc. by creating a
custom helper command on slack using celery task queue architecture for HTTP
Requests.
Associate Solution Advisor - Deloitte Consulting Pvt. Ltd. Jul’16 - Feb’18
- Performed data cleansing, data integration and data transformation using
Enterprise SAS, Python and Excel.
- Designed ​Tableau​ dashboards for projects like general ledger risk analysis,
investment portfolio analysis etc.
- Automated the process of fetching and consolidation of policy information from
unstructured monthly data for a client in the insurance domain, thereby increasing
the efficiency of ​process by 50%.
- Performed guided manual and ​automated ​software testing​​ for an in-house
analytics ETL tool.
INTERNSHIPS
Exploratory Data Analyst ​ - Deloitte USI
Dec’16 - Mar’17
- Developed scripts in SAS, SQL, and ACL to extract information from
complex data sources.
SDE Intern ​- Stratbeans Consulting (​Report​)
May - July ‘15
- Developed a novel query search engine using Python NLTK,
RabbitMQ and Apache Lucene.
PROJECTS
- HUD for cars​ - Engineering Capstone Project - ​​Youtube​​ | ​​Github
- ITMU Intranet​ - Database Admin - Oracle 11G ​(​view​)
- Aviation Accidents Analytics​ ​( ​view​ )
- US Bank Complaints Sentiment Analysis ​(​​View​​)
- Game Behavioral Analytics ( ​​View​​ )
- 2D Transformation in C​ ( ​​Github​​ )
- Query Based Search Engine ( ​​Report​​ )
- YelpCamp Web App ( ​​Github​​ )
- Simplistic Personal Blog ( ​​Github​​ )
- Stateless To Do List ( ​​Github​​ )
- Word Frequency Finder ( ​​Github​​ )
SKILLS
- ​Front End Development​ : HTML, CSS, React
- ​Back End Development : ​Flask - Python, Yii - PHP, J2EE - Java
- ​Machine Learning​: ​NumPy,Scikit, TensorFlow
- ​Data Visualization: ​​MatPlotLib, Tableau, D3,Charts.js
- ​General Purpose Languages​: ​C, C++, Python, Java
- ​Data cleansing and preparation​: ​SAS, Excel, R
CONFERENCES ATTENDED / PUBLIC SPEAKING
- ​Presented​ on the topic - ​Kibana as a Reporting Engine​ at an Elastic
Meetup in Gurgaon. The event was hosted by ​Animesh Bansriyar​ -
PSA Elastic.
- Attended ​InnoviCon AI conference​ held at BVP Delhi.
- Attended TechCon - 2018 - India’s largest IT event at IIT, Delhi.
- Attended ​NVIDIA​ Machine and Deep Learning Developer Connect -
2018
AWARDS​ (​view certificates​)
- 2 Spot Bonus awards for development of proof of concepts and
client closures - Stratbeans
- 2 busy season cash awards for exceptional value to clients - Deloitte
- Deloitte Cyber Threat Competition Finalist - Gurgaon Region
- Spot Award for exceptional value to clients in the busy season -
Deloitte
- Won Obfuscation of code in C in ITM’s technical fest.
- Winner of inter-college rap competition in Momentum - ITMs
cultural fest
- Managed, strategized and idealized for multiple events in ITMs
cultural and technical fests.
ONLINE LEARNING
- Data Science,ML and NLP specialization - ​UMich​​ ​​view
- Programming for everybody - Getting started with Python​ ​view
- FY18 Exploratory Data Analytics - ​Deloitte University​ ​view
- Creating Interactive Tableau Dashboards - ​Lynda ​​view
- Elasticsearch 6, Logstash, Kafka and Kibana ​view
- Building conversational experience with ​Google Dialogflow​ ​view
VOLUNTEER SERVICES
- Volunteer for ​​Advait Education​​ for undergrad course called SVC
- Volunteer for ​Bhagavad Gita Distribution​ - ISKCON
- ​Deloitte Impact Day​ volunteer for 2 consecutive years