VEDANT VOHRA

Houston, TX 77021 · ved914980@gmail.com · (331) 245-9385 · download resume

Actively seeking full-time Software Engineering / Machine Learning Engineering / Data Engineering opportunities. Recently graduated with a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of Houston. A Senior Software Engineer with over 3 years of experience building scalable Web Applications and Microservices. I have a keen interest in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.


Experience

Software Engineer (intern)

Slalom Build
  • Developed a serverless API for Meaningful Work, a Slack chatbot application allowing employees to provide feedback on their work, and collect data used to measure employee satisfaction.

  • Utilized a myriad of technologies including TypeScript as a language, Node.js for server-side logic, in combination with DynamoDB, Lex, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, and CloudFormation.

  • The app launched successfully and reached over 13,000 users.
June 2022 – August 2022

Senior Software Engineer

Darwinbox
  • Participated in the technical effort of a HR Management SaaS company, reporting directly to the CTO and spearheading the development of cutting-edge, scalable architecture solutions using the latest technologies and platforms, ensuring optimal performance and efficiency. Joined at an early stage and supported the scaling of the business to serve the enterprise market.

  • Spearheaded pioneering solutions as R&D Lead, which provided the company with a significant competitive advantage and revenue boost, and garnered industry recognition and accolades after demonstrations at TechHR, the largest HR tech conference in Asia, for 2 consecutive years.

  • Owned the PMS (Performance Management System) module and was responsible for all development within the module, using PHP (Yii), JQuery, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, and S3. Led a module overhaul that resulted in a 300% increase in usage.

  • Led a team of developers to build a performant, service-oriented framework using NodeJS, MongoDB, Redis, Angular, SQS, S3, and ElasticSearch for processing and generating real-time reports and analytics dashboards, capable of processing the data for millions of users within seconds.

  • Built a contactless biometric attendance system using NodeJS, Lambda, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Rekognition, S3, Python, Keras, OpenCV, and NumPy, with an API to integrate face recognition into any module in the application.

  • Strengthened application security as lead developer on the AppSec team, identifying vulnerabilities, developing effective security protocols, and ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices, improving both application security and compliance.
March 2018 – October 2021

Software Engineer (intern)

Darwinbox
  • Responsible for the development, management and maintenance of complex solutions with a focus on delivering optimal efficiency, productivity and quality.

  • Built and integrated an intelligent voicebot assistant into the Darwinbox Android app using DialogFlow, Go, Python,NLTK, and the RASA NLU pipeline, employing a lightweight API server and a custom RASA NLU intent classification model, increasing user satisfaction and reducing support queries.

  • Developed a data-providing web crawler and scraper based on js-crawler for the voicebot, utilizing NodeJS, JQuery, and webpack technologies, leading to an improvement in training data quality and a 50% increase in voicebot accuracy.

  • Established a Python, NLTK, and SciKit-Learn-based profanity filter and sentiment analyzer for employee feedback using Sentiment Classification and SentiWordNet dataset, contributing to a decrease in negative feedback and contributing to the further development of a positive workplace culture.

  • Collaborated on a receipt parsing OCR engine, utilizing Python, OpenCV, and Tesseract technologies, which led to an increase in parsing accuracy and a reduction in manual data entry errors.

  • Designed event registration forms and email templates for a tech event and blog with HTML5, CSS3, and JQuery technologies, which brought an increase in event sign-ups and an improvement in email open rates.
January 2017 - March 2018

Software Engineer (intern)

GGK Tech
  • Completed comprehensive training program in C# and .NET development, acquiring in-depth knowledge of production-scale development practices.
October 2017 - December 2017

Projects

Gumo

Node JS, Mongo DB, NPM package
A web-crawler and scraper to extract data from a family of nested dynamic web pages, with added enhancements to assist knowledge mining applications.
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April 2021

Camera-based Heart Rate Measurement in the Cloud

Python, OpenCV, AWS Sagemaker, AWS Lambda, AWS Kinesis
Heart rate estimation using a webcam. Scaled up for multiple simultaneous measurements using cloud technologies.
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December 2021

SmartCities-Project-1

Python, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Transfer Learning, Keras
Pedestrian detection, re-identification and tracking using a UAV. Trained on the P-DESTRE dataset.
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May 2022

Purgatorio

Unity, C#, Game Development
In this action-packed rogue-like adventure, battle your way through purgatory to defeat the seven deadly sins as you face intense boss fights and pick up powerful weapons along the way. But beware - there are no saves, so you'll need to conquer the game in one go!
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May 2023

Education

University of Houston

Masters in Computer Science
August 2021 – May 2023

Keshav Memorial Institute of Technology (affiliated to JNTUH)

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
September 2014 - May 2018

Programming Languages
Frameworks
Tools
  • Others: Agile

Interests

When I don't have my head buried in a new project, you'll usually find me hanging out with friends, making/playing video games, reading or just tinkering with a new gadget or gizmo.

I'm always ready to strike up a conversation, whether it be about nerd culture, tech or even the ideal pitch of a mechanical keyboard.


Awards & Publications

  • Certificate of Appreciation - Awarded for Face Recognition and Contribution to Performance Module

  • A Glimpse Under the Hood of Face Recognition at Darwinbox - Tech@Darwinbox (https://medium.com/tech-darwinbox)
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