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Windows OS Fundamentals

Power Team - Improving user experience and battery life across all devices in Windows

Built analytics tools for system tracelogging

Worked on OS features such as Energy saver mode

Built modules on the OS to track energy usage across different components and processes

Designed and built dashboards for Microsoft device data and for OEMs such as Intel,QC,AMD to collaborate with

Improved existing data pipelines to bring in new data from customer devices from over 24hrs to under 2 hrs

Windows 11

OS development

Testing

Deep perf analysis

Data pipelines

Core Services Engineering and Operations

Corporate Functions Engineering Team - The team responsible for HR data across Microsoft

Integrated SAP HR data and SAP SuccessFactors HR data of over 262,000+ employees into a single container using Azure Datalake and Azure Databricks

Built the backend microservices ETL pipeline that would pull raw data, clean & transform data into an improved data model using Databricks and then load into a datalake container

Reduced the time for all HR data processing from upwards of 48 hours to minutes

Azure functions + Databricks

Software Development

Agile

Unit testing

CI/CD YAML pipelines

Core Services Engineering and Operations

ML Platform Team – A complete E2E automated solution to provision Azure resources, Repositories, Area Paths, Notebooks and more to bring down the setup time from few weeks to under a day to be 8 used in a ML or Analytics Project

Designed and built a frontend UI using Office UI Fabric React and TypeScript

Researched and Implemented user experience techniques, compliance and accessibility standards

Partnered with T-Mobile in the Microsoft Hackathon to autonomously drive a car using image recognition and supervised learning

Software Development

Agile

React

Accessibility

Camera Test Development Team

Localized the camera testing process by eliminating the connection between the PC and the camera test device, thus improving test times and ability to add more complex and randomizable test suites

Built an end-to-end tool that translates multiple testcase XMLs into complex feature tests

Researched and Implemented different data mining techniques and NLP to analyze log files

Won overall 2nd and ‘Best Innovative Hack’ at Qualcomm’s Hackmobile for building a biometric security system for physical controls using a Dragonboard 410c, facial recognition AI and a physical knob

Software Development

Agile

C/C++

Testing

Greater Lafayette Area Special Services (GLASS) Team

TOSS is a motorized ball-launching system to allow children with disabilities such as cerebral palsy to participate in physical activities that require throwing or kicking a large ball, such as kickball

Researched on Arduino and PWM signals and built a speed control for the spinning motors on TOSS to vary the distance the ball is launched

Software Development

Hardware Development

Arduino

Software Dev Team

Analyzed and interpreted the digital signals received by the ultrasonic devices used in thickness measurements of structures using MATLAB

Researched different methods of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

Integrated the ultrasound module into their prototype Remotely Operated Underwater Vehicle (ROV)

Software Development

C/C++

MATLAB

Learning and Development Team

Part of the ‘Makerspace’ Project Team– Communicated and identified manufacturers and sellers regarding high-end machines like CNC Routers and planers, 3D Printers and Laser cutters

Research

Business

CatchThemYoungProgram

Part of an elite 30 that got selected for a 2-week rigorous bootcamp at Infosys HQ in Chennai, India

Exposed to concepts such as computer security, networking, graphics, animation and much more

Bootcamp

Microsoft Office