Purvesh Karkamkar has a Master's degree in Computer Science from Texas A&M University with a 4.0 GPA. He has over 3 years of work experience as a Software Engineer at Zynga in Bangalore, India where he created new game prototypes and developed multi-platform applications. He also had internships at Cisco Systems and the Indian Institute of Information Technology where he worked on software tools and machine translation systems. His skills include Java, C++, Python, and technologies like Android Studio, Apache Spark, and Splunk.

1. PURVESH KARKAMKAR
1100 Hensel Drive, Apt# Q209 • College Station, Texas 77840 • (979) 721 0162 • kpurvesh@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas August 2017
Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
GPA: 4.0
Relevant Coursework: Software Engineering, Machine Learning, Information Storage & Retrieval
National Institute of Technology Trichy, India July 2008 - July 2012
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering
GPA: 8.4 / 10
Secured 1685th
rank among 1 million applicants in All India Engineering Entrance Examination
Practiced algorithmic problem solving on SPOJ and was in the top 5 programmers of my college
WORK EXPERIENCE
Zynga, Bangalore, India June 2012 – April 2015
Software Engineer
 Created new game prototypes with prior research on choice of technology stack and software architecture.
 Developed a multi-platform application for Android, iOS and Web.
 Programmed many aspects of video games, such as graphics, sound, interface, scripts, etc.
 Made optimizations that led to a reduction in load time and server load.
 Successfully mentored a team of 4 new engineers on the development team.
Cisco Systems Inc, Bangalore, India May 2011 – July 2011
Software Engineering Intern
 Worked as a member of the Service Provider Routing Software Group.
 Understood IOS-XR operating system and its components.
 Developed a tool to dump global variables from a process in a live router in order to avoid the need for a separate
debugging image or patch.
 Created a project report and presented a demo of the tool.
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India May 2010 – June 2010
Research Intern at Anusaaraka Laboratory
 Worked on OpenLogos machine translation system under Dr. Vineet Chaitanya.
 Investigated and fixed a bug in the system that was giving inconsistent output.
 Clarified certain concepts and terminologies used by the OpenLogos system.
 Wrote a python script to parse the given input sentence for translation.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE
 Map Reduce Job, Cuberon Labs, San Francisco Bay Area Dec 2015 – Jan 2015
Wrote a Map Reduce Job using Apache Spark to perform aggregations and compute metrics for a given dataset.
 Course Assignment System, Texas A&M University (CSE Department Project) Sep 2015 – Dec 2015
Website to collect information from faculty regarding location and timing preferences for their courses and
present it in a way so as to resolve the conflicts and streamline the assignment process.
 Graphic Calculator, Texas A&M University (Personal Project) Sep 2015
Android app to perform basic mathematical operations using a novel user interface with voice input support.
SKILLS & EXPERTISE
 Java (Expert), C++ (Proficient), Python (Prior Experience), Ruby, Rails, PHP, Javascript, XML, HTML / CSS
 Android Studio, Netbeans, IntelliJ IDEA, Apache Spark, RStudio, Splunk
WORK AUTHORIZATION
Eligible to work with Curricular Practical Training