Rakesh Kumar Sukumar is a computer science graduate from St. Peter's Institute of Higher Education and Research in India and holds an MS in Computer Science from North Carolina State University. He has work experience as a software engineer at Infosys and as an intern at Twin Sails Technology Group. His skills include languages like C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and databases like MongoDB. Some of his projects include a course availability monitoring system, a distributed filesystem, a news aggregator using Apache Spark, and a location-aware bucket list application. He has also developed an open source Python package for tracking web page changes.

1. RAKESH KUMAR SUKUMAR
1701, Crest Road, Raleigh, NC – 27606 | (919)-579-3871
rsukuma2@ncsu.edu | https://github.com/rakeshwashere | https://www.linkedin.com/in/raskuma
EDUCATION
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC May, 2017
MS in Computer Science GPA: 3.7 / 4.0
St. Peter’s Institute of Higher Education and Research, India April 2012
BS in Computer Science GPA: 8.5 / 10.0
WORK EXPERIENCE
Twin Sails Technology Group - Software Engineering Intern May 2016 – Aug 2016
● Developed HTML widgets for the UI of iPad EHR app
● Built a RESTful service using Node.js, Express and MongoDB to expose data and services for IPad app
● Developed back-end services in Node.js that exchange patient test requests and results over SFTP
● Developing a Node.js gateway server using socket.io to handle requests from thousands of client apps
Infosys, Microsoft Division - Software Engineer July 2013 – July 2015
● Developed a service ticketing systemwith chat features in X++ for Microsoft ERP Axapta using .NET web services
● Worked with Microsoft to fix bugs in Microsoft's SQL Server Reporting solution and optimize workflows
● Developed an email reminder systemfor customer invoice payment in Microsoft AX ERP application
SKILLS
 Languages / Paradigms : C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, X++, bash Scripting, Object Oriented Design
 Web Technologies : Node.js, Express, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS
 Databases : MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server
 Big Data Technologies : Apache Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ
 Cloud Platforms : Amazon Web Services, Google Firebase
 Dev Tools/ APIs : Gulp.js, Vagrant, Docker, Git, Numpy, MLlib
COURSES
 Networks, Operating Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Compilers, Software Engineering, Distributed
System Architecture, Enterprise Storage Architecture, Database Systems
PROJECTS
 Course Gopher - Python,RabbitMQ, AWS EC2, Node.js, Express Spring 2016
Built a real-time course availability monitoring and analytics dashboard system that sends E-mail and text message
alerts to students when seats forcourses of their choice open up. http://coursesentinel.tk/
 Distributed Filesystem using FUSE – Python Spring 2016
Built a highly available application layer distributed filesystem with FUSE clients on a cluster of Linux instances,
communicating through sockets.
 News Shift - Python, Beautiful Soup, PHP, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL Fall 2015
Developed a distributed, real-time data processing, news aggregator, running on an Apache EC2 spark cluster using
Apache MLlib that generates links to Wikipedia pages of named entities extracted from the news articles.
 WalkPool (Second-prize winners) – JavaScript, Google Firebase Runner up at HackDuke 2015
A carpool-like web app that helps people find walking or running buddies from a list of their Facebook friends.
http://hackerpack.me/WalkPool/
 Bucket List Bot - Amadeus API, Alchemy API, Google Firebase, JavaScript HackIllinois2016
Built a location aware bucket list application that actively helps users fulfill wishes in their bucket list by offering
geo-location based suggestions.
OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS Summer 2016
 Page Tracker – Developed an open source python package that tracks web pages for changes in content and alerts
user through email and text messages. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/page_tracker