Utkarsh Garg is a Master's student in Computer Science at Stony Brook University. He received a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering from SRM University. His experience includes working as a Systems Software Engineer at VISA Inc. where he developed various applications and integrated payment gateways. He also had a Product Development Fellowship at Hasura where he worked on chatbots and voice skills. His programming skills include Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, C, .NET, and SQL. Some of his projects involve recommendation systems, sentiment analysis, and work on chatbots and web applications. He has received various awards and certifications in fields like DevOps, ITIL, and data science.

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UTKARSH GARG
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EDUCATION
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York Aug 2019 – Dec 2020*
• Master of Science in Computer Science
• Graduate Coursework: Data Science, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Analysis of Algorithms
SRM University-Kattankulathur,Chennai,India Aug 2011 - May 2015
• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering | CGPA: 9.52/10
• Undergrad Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, AI & Expert Systems, Data Mining, Image Processing, Human
Computer Interaction, Network Security
EXPERIENCE
Systems Software Engineer VISA Inc, Bangalore, India Jul 2015 - Jul 2019
BAU Role:
• Managing 100+ Linux servers & over 150+ Windows boxes, component provisioning, handling configuration &
deployment of infrastructure & services.
• Developed a Self-Service Dashboard for monitoring app health status from single UI, thereby saving 8+ effort hours.
Server Side Development:
• Worked on Jenkins jobs to enable continuous delivery pipeline for automating deployments in Production Systems.
• Built Alerting systems and Dashboards on Splunk for proactive monitoring.
3rd Party Integrations:
• Part of 90/10 initiative, developed a mobile app to facilitate Instant Payouts for Small Merchants using Stripe APIs.
• Integrated Payment Gateways like Paypal to process user payments, in a test environment
• Developed a web app for Visa Exclusive Marketplace, a Loyalty-based project to incentivize existing VISA Cardholders
boost card payments, in return for exclusive offers/rewards, using VISA APIs.
• Made use of Facebook’s OAuth2.0 auth-protocol and Graph API for profiling cardholders’ social media profiles, to
derive their interests/likes for personalized offers.
Product Development Fellowship Hasura,Bangalore, India Nov 2017 – Feb 2018
• Worked on Chatbots for Facebook Messengers (WikiBot and MovieBot)
• Developed Voice Skills for Amazon Alexa(live on Skill store). Gathered over 200+ activations within a month of Go-Live
• Worked on Microservices & K8’s clusters, while working with CNCF systems.
Summer Intern HP, Lucknow, India May 2013- July 2013
• Worked on a project to Secure Linux Servers from Network Attacks, using Backtrack OS.
PROGRAMMING SKILLS
• Languages: Java, Python, Javascript, C++, C, .NET, SQL
• Platforms & Tools: Google Colab, GitHub, MySQL, Visual Studio,Eclipse, MEAN Stack, Spring Boot, Selenium, R
PROJECTS & RESEARCH
• Recommendation System: Built a Customer Relationship Management System using Decision Trees, in R to perform
Market Basket Analysis, as a final-year project in Undergrad.
• Sentiment Analysis: Built a web-app for analyzing customer reviews on product review page for an E-Commerce
website.
• Chatbots & WebApps: My work during Fellowship at Hasura (https://hasura.io/hub/users/utkarsh/)
• Kaggle IEEE Fraud Detection: Worked on EDA and predictive modelling revolving around predicting the probability of
whether a transaction is fraudulent.
AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS
• DevOps Certified | Edureka | License https://edureka.co/verify | ID : BTTVBVTA
• ITIL Certified |APMG International | License ITIL/2000603220
• Recognised with ‘Go Beyond’ award for my automation work at VISA Inc
• ‘Outstanding Performance’ award at HP India, Ltd. during HPES Summer Internship
• Immersive Data Science Program | Greyatom | License https://www.credential.net/w95pzloj
• Developing Applications with Google Cloud Platform Specialization | Coursera | License A6XDCT7WBWHK