Resume

1. Rushin Shah
rushinshah7942@gmail.com| website: http://rushinshah.me | (716) 431–9468
GitHub: https://github.com/rushinshah7942 LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/shahrushin
EDUCATION
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (GPA: 3.54) December 2016
Master of Science, Computer Science
Institute of Technology, Nirma University May 2012
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering, with First Class Distinction
LANGUAGES AND SKILLS
 Java, R, MapReduce, HTML, CSS, Java ME, IBM DB2, SQL, C++, C, Python, COBOL, Spring
 Google App Engine, Apache Solr, Apache Hadoop, Eclipse, R Studio, Power Builder, Tableau, REST, Git
PROJECTS
Class room scheduling problem using Hadoop MapReduce and Tableau – Spring 2016
 Analyzed class room of UB North Campus data applying EDA using R. Used MapReduce to solve different scheduling
problems.
 Built an analysis and visualization user interface using Tableau software and presented analysis using Dashboards and
stories. Individual project.
Handwritten Digits Classification Using Neural Networks – Spring 2016
 Implemented a Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (forward pass and back propagation) in Python and evaluated
its performance in classifying handwritten digits.
 Used regularization to avoid overfitting problem and got accuracy up to 97.5%. Team of 2 people.
Implementation of SQL parser and Indexing using B+ tree – Summer 2016
 Provided an interface for users to query the database. Realized indexing using B+ tree with proper representation using
Java. Individual project.
Multilingual search system for tweets – Fall 2015
 Developed a multilingual faceted search system, using Apache Solr with Content tagging, summarization, cross language
translation and faceted search. Team of 4 people.
OS/161 Synchronization and System Calls – Spring 2016
 Implemented working locks, condition variables, reader-writer locks, and different synchronization problems using C.
Added process and system calls support to OS/161 kernel. Team of 2 people.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Programmer Analyst, Cognizant Technology Solutions, February 2013 – May 2015
 Developed and implemented components of Automated Clearing House (ACH) project (Client: JPMorgan Chase)
 Developed Client (User Interface) and Server from scratch for data mining of payments. Implemented a component to
handle the historical data in the billing draft file.
 Cleared Cognizant Certified Professional (CCP) Banking and Financial Services Industry, COBOL, and DB2 UDB V8.1
certifications.
 Loan Processing System: Developed and maintained a loan database thereby generating report with Application
programs and Batch processing.
Software Developer Intern, BISAG, January 2012 – April 2012
 OpenOffice.org for Mobile: Developed a Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) and Connected Limited Device
Configuration (CLDC) based application at Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-Informatics (BISAG)
which help users to create and modify ODF documents in mobile devices.
 Included facilities like Text Document, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Drawing, and Formulas.
LEADERSHIP
 Worked as the Resource Manager for Student Chapter of Computer Society of India (CSI) and helped organizing
National level Technical Symposiums BLITZKRIEG’11 and Colosseum’10.
 Assisted in organizing a 4 week computer literacy camp “GYANJYOTI” for helping the Underprivileged.