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I'm Payal Rashinkar

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Computer Science - AI 2024 Grad from USC |Ex Sr. Software Engineer, Lead @ Ribbon Communications | US Permanent Resident

Software Engineer and Machine Learning enthusiast with over 7 years of industry experience. Skilled in coding, debugging, developing machine learning models, and deploying applications on cloud and virtualized infrastructures. Recently graduated with a master's degree in computer science with a focus on AI, honing skills, and staying abreast of technological advancements.

Education

January 2023 - June 2024

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University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Master's In Computer Science

GPA: 3.67/4

[Degree Certificate] [Official Transcript]

June 2010 - July 2014

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The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru

Bachelor's In Information Science

GPA: 9.31/10

[Degree Certificate] [Official Transcript]

January 2023 - June 2024

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University of Southern California

Master's In Computer Science

GPA: 3.67/4

[Degree Certificate] [Official Transcript]

June 2010 - July 2014

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The National Institute of Engineering, Mysuru

Bachelor's In Information Science

GPA: 9.31/10

[Degree Certificate] [Official Transcript]

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Technical Skills

Backend Languages

Python Java C C++ SQL NodeJS Express Flask

Frontend Languages

HTML CSS JavaScript TypeScript AngularJS Bootstrap

Platforms

GCP AWS GitHub Docker vmware kvm

Tools

Jupyter VS Code Xcode Google Colab Jira Eclipse

Machine Learning

TensorFlow PyTorch ScikitLearn XGBoost Matplotlib Seaborn

NLP

Hugging Face Transformer NLTK Keras Gensim Panda Numpy
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Backend Languages

Python Java C C++ SQL NodeJS Express Flask

Frontend Languages

HTML CSS JavaScript TypeScript AngularJS Bootstrap

Platforms

GCP AWS GitHub Docker vmware kvm

Tools

Jupyter VS Code Xcode Google Colab Jira Eclipse

Machine Learning

TensorFlow PyTorch ScikitLearn XGBoost Matplotlib Seaborn

NLP

Hugging Face Transformer NLTK Keras Gensim Panda Numpy

Work Experience

2021

Ribbon Communications

Performance Engineer

Oct 2020 – Sep 2021

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2020

Ribbon Communications

Sr. Software Engineer

Sep 2016 – Sep 2020

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2016

Sonus Networks

Graduate Software Engineer

July 2014 – Aug 2016

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2014

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2021

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Ribbon Communications

Performance Engineer

Oct 2020 – Sep 2021

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2020

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Ribbon Communications

Sr. Software Engineer

Sep 2016 – Sep 2020

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2016

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Sonus Networks

Graduate Software Engineer

July 2014 – Aug 2016

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2014

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Projects

  • Responsive web application for stock market analysis using AJAX, JSON, HTML5, Bootstrap, Angular, Node.js, and MongoDB Atlas, integrating Finnhub API for features like autocomplete search, stock quotes, and user-specific watchlists. Ensured seamless functionality and optimized user experience across devices with responsive design and RESTful routing. [Website] [Mobile Link] [Github Link]
  • Developed a cloud-hosted stock information web app using Python Flask and REST APIs (Finnhub and Polygon.io) for real-time data retrieval and visualization. Implemented an interactive front-end with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HighCharts, providing structured content through tabbed navigation. [Github Link]
  • Designed and developed a responsive web page using pure HTML and CSS, achieving perfect replication of the provided design mockups with precise alignment, fonts, and colors. Implemented functional navigation with anchor links and styled elements to enhance usability and visual consistency. [Github Link]

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  • A full stack application that performs information retrieval on the web; Spearman correlation using search engine result overlap; A spider to crawl websites; An inverted index generator to enable swift searching of documents; [Github Link]

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  • Native iOS stock market analysis app using SwiftUI, Xcode, and Alamofire, integrating Finnhub API for real-time data and virtual trading features. Implemented portfolio management, favorites tracking, and interactive data visualization with a Node.js backend and MongoDB for data persistence. [Github Link]

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  • Designed and executed a project to optimize skiing routes to ski resorts, incorporating advanced pathfinding techniques such as BFS, UCS, and A* search algorithms. [GitHub Link]
  • Devised min-max algorithms permitting a bot to accurately identify and execute capture moves based on game rules for Pente, resulting in a 20% improvement in the AI's competitiveness and strategic thinking ability in gameplay. [GitHub Link]
  • Developed and implemented a robust first-order logic resolution system to utilize a knowledge base encoding all restaurant details, enabling the program to generate logical conclusions with accuracy and precision. [GitHub Link]

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  • A Binary Classifier of vertebral column dataset using K-Nearest-Neighbors. [GitHub Link]
  • A Linear, Multiple, and KNN Regressor to predict the Electrical Energy Output of Combined Cycle Power Plant. [GitHub Link]
  • A classifier of human activities based on time series obtained by a WirelessSensor Network. [GitHub Link]
  • A decision tree to determine if a patient has accute inflammation or has accute nephritis based on bodily symptoms. [GitHub Link]
  • A Lasso and L1 penalized gradient boosting tree for communities and crime dataset. [GitHub Link]
  • A Random Forest And XGBoost Model Trees for component failure detection in the APS system. [GitHub Link]
  • A Multi-class and Multi-Label Classification Using Support Vector Machines, K-Means Clustering, and Monte Carlo Simulation for species, genus and family detection of frogs. [GitHub Link]
  • Supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning methods, designed and evaluated Monte Carlo simulations, active learning strategies, and spectral clustering techniques to analyze performance metrics [GitHub Link]
  • Designed and implemented a multi-class image classifier for 20 bird species using transfer learning with EfficientNetB0 and VGG16, incorporating data augmentation techniques and fine-tuning the final layers. [GitHub Link]

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  • Developed a sentiment analysis pipeline on the Amazon Reviews dataset using Python and libraries like Scikit-learn and NLTK. Implemented data preprocessing, TF-IDF vectorization, and machine learning models (Perceptron, SVM, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes) to classify text. Achieved strong performance metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score) and demonstrated expertise in text classification, feature engineering, and model evaluation. [GitHub Link]
  • Developed a sentiment analysis pipeline using Word2Vec embeddings (pretrained and custom-trained) for feature extraction, combined with machine learning models (Perceptron, SVM) and deep learning architectures (MLP, CNN) for binary and ternary text classification. Conducted comparative evaluations using TF-IDF, pretrained, and custom Word2Vec features, demonstrating expertise in feature representation, model training, and performance analysis. [GitHub Link]
  • Developed a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging using the Penn Treebank dataset, incorporating Greedy and Viterbi decoding algorithms for sequence prediction. Implemented vocabulary handling, optimized emission and transition probabilities, and evaluated accuracy using custom evaluation scripts, automating result generation for development and test datasets. [GitHub Link]
  • Developed a Named Entity Recognition (NER) system using Bidirectional LSTM with GloVe embeddings, further optimized with an LSTM-CNN architecture. Achieved high precision, recall, and F1 scores on the CoNLL-2003 dataset, showcasing expertise in deep learning and NLP. [GitHub Link]

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  • Responsive web application for stock market analysis using AJAX, JSON, HTML5, Bootstrap, Angular, Node.js, and MongoDB Atlas, integrating Finnhub API for features like autocomplete search, stock quotes, and user-specific watchlists. Ensured seamless functionality and optimized user experience across devices with responsive design and RESTful routing. [Website] [Mobile Link] [Github Link]
  • Developed a cloud-hosted stock information web app using Python Flask and REST APIs (Finnhub and Polygon.io) for real-time data retrieval and visualization. Implemented an interactive front-end with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and HighCharts, providing structured content through tabbed navigation. [Github Link]
  • Designed and developed a responsive web page using pure HTML and CSS, achieving perfect replication of the provided design mockups with precise alignment, fonts, and colors. Implemented functional navigation with anchor links and styled elements to enhance usability and visual consistency. [Github Link]

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  • A full stack application that performs information retrieval on the web; Spearman correlation using search engine result overlap; A spider to crawl websites; An inverted index generator to enable swift searching of documents; [Github Link]

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  • Native iOS stock market analysis app using SwiftUI, Xcode, and Alamofire, integrating Finnhub API for real-time data and virtual trading features. Implemented portfolio management, favorites tracking, and interactive data visualization with a Node.js backend and MongoDB for data persistence. [Github Link]

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  • Designed and executed a project to optimize skiing routes to ski resorts, incorporating advanced pathfinding techniques such as BFS, UCS, and A* search algorithms. [GitHub Link]
  • Devised min-max algorithms permitting a bot to accurately identify and execute capture moves based on game rules for Pente, resulting in a 20% improvement in the AI's competitiveness and strategic thinking ability in gameplay. [GitHub Link]
  • Developed and implemented a robust first-order logic resolution system to utilize a knowledge base encoding all restaurant details, enabling the program to generate logical conclusions with accuracy and precision. [GitHub Link]

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  • A Binary Classifier of vertebral column dataset using K-Nearest-Neighbors. [GitHub Link]
  • A Linear, Multiple, and KNN Regressor to predict the Electrical Energy Output of Combined Cycle Power Plant. [GitHub Link]
  • A classifier of human activities based on time series obtained by a WirelessSensor Network. [GitHub Link]
  • A decision tree to determine if a patient has accute inflammation or has accute nephritis based on bodily symptoms. [GitHub Link]
  • A Lasso and L1 penalized gradient boosting tree for communities and crime dataset. [GitHub Link]
  • A Random Forest And XGBoost Model Trees for component failure detection in the APS system. [GitHub Link]
  • A Multi-class and Multi-Label Classification Using Support Vector Machines, K-Means Clustering, and Monte Carlo Simulation for species, genus and family detection of frogs. [GitHub Link]
  • Supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning methods, designed and evaluated Monte Carlo simulations, active learning strategies, and spectral clustering techniques to analyze performance metrics [GitHub Link]
  • Designed and implemented a multi-class image classifier for 20 bird species using transfer learning with EfficientNetB0 and VGG16, incorporating data augmentation techniques and fine-tuning the final layers. [GitHub Link]

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  • Developed a sentiment analysis pipeline on the Amazon Reviews dataset using Python and libraries like Scikit-learn and NLTK. Implemented data preprocessing, TF-IDF vectorization, and machine learning models (Perceptron, SVM, Logistic Regression, Naive Bayes) to classify text. Achieved strong performance metrics (accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score) and demonstrated expertise in text classification, feature engineering, and model evaluation. [GitHub Link]
  • Developed a sentiment analysis pipeline using Word2Vec embeddings (pretrained and custom-trained) for feature extraction, combined with machine learning models (Perceptron, SVM) and deep learning architectures (MLP, CNN) for binary and ternary text classification. Conducted comparative evaluations using TF-IDF, pretrained, and custom Word2Vec features, demonstrating expertise in feature representation, model training, and performance analysis. [GitHub Link]
  • Developed a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) for Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging using the Penn Treebank dataset, incorporating Greedy and Viterbi decoding algorithms for sequence prediction. Implemented vocabulary handling, optimized emission and transition probabilities, and evaluated accuracy using custom evaluation scripts, automating result generation for development and test datasets. [GitHub Link]
  • Developed a Named Entity Recognition (NER) system using Bidirectional LSTM with GloVe embeddings, further optimized with an LSTM-CNN architecture. Achieved high precision, recall, and F1 scores on the CoNLL-2003 dataset, showcasing expertise in deep learning and NLP. [GitHub Link]

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