1. Rajbharath Rajendran
2827 Orchard Avenue APT#08, Los Angeles, CA 90007 – 2132551767 – rajbharr@usc.edu
Education
University of Southern California 2017
Master of Science: Computer Science (GPA: 3.85/4)
Related Coursework: Artificial Intelligence and Algorithm design
Vellore Institute of Technology 2013
Bachelor of Technology: Computer Science (GPA: 3.7/4)
Vellore, India
Summary of Skills
Technical Skills: Java, C++, J2EE, Python, Oracle and MYSQL
Web Technologies: JSP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3
Frameworks: Struts, Hibernate
Packaging & Version Control tools: Maven, Ant and Git
Other Skills: Hands on Experience in REST based application development, Design pattern and MVC Framework.
Work Experience
PayPal July 2013-July 2015
Software Engineer II Chennai, India
 Implemented Single Sign On functionality to provide unified user experience across PayPal and Payflow systems
 Integrated First Data Nashville API validation in onboarding applications, which helped our customer support team
from manually verifying those boarding details
 Led a scrum team and organized scrum of scrum dependencies between local team and offshore product team
 Trained new joiners by teaching them about Payment domain
PayPal Jan 2013-Jun 2013
Software Engineering Intern Chennai, India
 Increased Unit Test Code Coverage by 60% which lead transition from CMM level III to CMM level IV
 Developed a monitoring tool which automatically deploy and preset the testing environment in stage machines
Projects
 Developed Computer player for Mancala Board Game: It uses several Adversial Search Algorithms to plan ahead
and make the best move. It is capable of searching up to 10 Million positions/sec. On an average, it searches 8-11
moves deep to choose the next best move. It also has an end game database for when only 2-3 pits left.
 Deductive system using logical inference: This basically extracts hidden information from the known Information
(axioms). This inference engine, using backward chaining, would search the inference rules until it finds one which
has a consequent (then clause) that matches a desired goal. If the antecedent (If clause) of that rule is not known
to be true, then it is added to the list of goals.
 2 Factor Authentication: Integrated PayPal's 2 Factor Authentication functionality in payflow system and reduced
60% fraudulent account creation.
 Rate Limiter: Implemented Rate Limiter using Ehcache and Throttling mechanism to mitigate Dos Attacks.
Awards and Community Involvement
 Spot Award for outstanding performance in fixing Security bugs, PAYPAL Oct 2014
 PayPal Hackathon APAC Finalist Sep 2014
 1st Prize, Bug Bounty Contest, identified critical bugs related to product pricing, conducted by PAYPAL Oct 2013
 Member of GIVE TREE organization and participated in Beach Clean-up and child support programs Dec 2013
 1st Prize, in coding competition "C Marks the Spot," graVITas, an International Knowledge carnival
held in VIT University Sep 2011