1. 1133 W 36th
Pl #9, Los Angeles, CA 90007 NISHANT KUMAR (M) 323 275 8456
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishant4498 nishant@usc.edu
EDUCATION
University of Southern California, Los Angeles Expected Graduation-May 2017
Master of Science, Computer Science GPA-3.7
Relevant Courses: Analysis of Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Geospatial Information
Management, Database Systems
Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India Apr 2010
Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology 80.5%
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: Java, Python, Ruby, C, C++ (Intermediate)
Web Technologies: REST, HTML 5, CSS 3, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, AngularJS
Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Spring
Databases: Oracle, SQL, PostgreSQL, PostGIS
Open Source: OpenCV, TensorFlow
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, UNIX
Tools: Git, SVN, Jira, Visual Studio, Aptana Studio, Eclipse, SWIG
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Development Engineer – Intern, Amazon.com May 16 – Aug 16
 Worked on analysis and learning of high accuracy geocodes (latitude, longitude) using Java for the customer
addresses based on the geocodes collected from Proof of delivery images. The accuracy of the algorithm was more
than 90% with just 3-4 samples per address.
 Worked on identifying house numbers from natural images using image recognition techniques, OpenCV,
Convolutional Neural Networks and Tensor Flow.
Senior Software Engineer, Electronics for Imaging (EFI) India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore Jun 11 – Jul 15
 Designed and developed Next Generation Web Services, RESTful web service API’s for device libraries written in C.
These API’s are distributed as a ruby gem and can be used by any client application to access the device libraries.
The application is deployed using thin as web server and apache as the proxy server.
 Implemented a Ruby on Rails based web application called Fiery Configure to control the Fiery controller 300 odd
configuration settings related to Server Management, Job Management, Networking, Security and User
Management.
 Developed a prototype for Fiery System Updater which updates all the Print Controllers in the field with the latest
features, updates, bug fixes. This is a C++ wrapper over a C DLL that uses soap calls to fetch the latest updates
from cloud and pushes the updates to the server.
Assistant Systems Engineer – Trainee, Tata Consultancy Services, India Aug 10 – Jun 11
 Maintained Single Sign On (SSO) applications that provide single point of access to a number of client applications.
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
 Developed an Android application called StudyBuddy which helps students search and join the active study groups
around them based on their subject of interest. The RESTful web service is developed using Java Spring framework
and deployed on AWS EC2 instance. The database is PostgreSQL hosted on an Amazon RDS instance. PostGIS is
used for k-NN and Range queries to find the nearby groups.
 Implemented a Bi Lingual News Classifier for various news categories in Hindi and Marathi languages. Here the
model was trained using Hindi news data and we used this model with our own stemming algorithm to classify
news in Marathi.
 Visualized the GPS co-ordinates of 9 different locations in the campus using Google Earth and KML (Keyhole Mark-
up Language) file. Also used PostgreSQL + PostGIS to compute the convex hull for these points and also find the 3
Nearest Neighbours.
 Developed an African game called Mancala (http://play-mancala.com/) using Greedy, Minimax and Alpha-Beta
pruning techniques. The algorithm finds the best possible move that a player can choose considering next 10-12
moves ahead.