VISHNUPRIYA BAKTHISARAN

200 Comstock Avenue Syracuse, NY 13210 | 269-861-3072 | vishnubakthisaran@gmail.com

EDUCATION
Syracuse University, College of Engineering and Computer Science December 2019
MS Computer Science (GPA: 3.3)
Programming Coursework: Object-Oriented Design, Object-Oriented Programming in C++, Social Media
Data Mining, Internet Programming, Operating Systems.

The Pennsylvania State University– University Park, PA December 2017

BS Computer Science

SKILLS
Software languages: Java, C++, Python, JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Haskell
Tools/Platforms: Spring, Hibernate, RESTful API design, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Git, Linux

EMPLOYMENT
Web Developer Intern May 2018 – July 2019
Syracuse University, Maxwell School of Public Affairs
• Developed about 10+ components of the Maxwell School website utilizing Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS .

Research Assistant May 2017 – September 2017

DATA Lab, University Park, PA
• Implemented a real-time social media map for visualizing health related information for 200+ real-time tweets
every five minutes using Python, HTML and CSS.
• Deployed social media map application utilizing AWS EC2 server.
• Incorporated a voice-to-text converter using IBM Watson for a sensor-based telehealth system utilizing Kinect.
• Tested the voice-to-text component in experimental trials, achieving eighty percent accuracy in speech
recognition.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
Workforce Scheduler
• Contributed towards the development of a web application that would manage the shifts of dining commons
employees.
• Developed a chatbot to assist the visitors on utilizing the website functionality.
• Developed a SQL database in Java to store employee’s metadata and shift information.
• Utilized: Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, SQL

Movie Recommendation System

• Designed a recommendation system for movies based on the sentiment-analysis of user feedback on Twitter.
• Utilized Collaborative Filtering model to generate movie recommendations based on movie-related tweets.
• Implemented and documented REST APIs including JSON data formats for the system’s user interface.
• Utilized: Python, REST services, Flask, HTML, CSS

Software Repository Testbed

• Developed a software repository from scratch with complete functionalities such as check-in, check-out,
browsing and versioning to manage large collection of code packages.
• Developed a NoSQL database with persistence mechanisms to store metadata of each file in the repository.
• Incorporated design patterns such as Single Responsibility Principle at check-in, to ensure that each function-
ality is not interdependent on others.
• Designed unit tests to demonstrate successful implementation of the required functionalities.
• Utilized: C++11, XML, NoSQL, Design Patterns