Priyanka Pandit | Projects

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PRIYANKA U PANDIT T
prpa4917@colorado.edu | linkedin.com/in/priyanka‑pandit | +1 (720) 514 3949
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
University of Colorado, Boulder (CGPA: 3.80/4.0)
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science
Courses: Natural Language Processing, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Big Data
Analytics, Big Data Architecture, Object‑Oriented Analysis and Design
Fall Courses: Data Mining, User‑Centered Design and Development, Datacenter Scale
Computing
M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India (CGPA: 9.64/10)
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Science and Engineering
(Silver Medalist ­ 2 nd
Rank in the Department)
Courses: Algorithms and Data Structures, Operating System, Web Designing, Computer
Networks, Database and Management Systems, Data Mining, Computer Architecture,
Software Testing, Software Engineering, Cloud Computing
MES PU College, Bangalore, India (91.66%)
Pre‑University Education
2018­Present
2015
2011
St. Mary’s High School, Bangalore, India (97.28%)
High School
2009
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming Languages :C, C++, Java, Python, Shell Scripting
Web Technologies :PHP, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, AJAX
Frameworks Experiences :Django, Laravel, Flask
Database Experiences :MySQL, OracleDB
Cloud/Container Experiences :Google Cloud Platform, Docker
Platform Experiences :Windows, Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cisco Systems India Pvt Limited ­ Software Engineer II July 2015 ­ July 2018
● Designed and developed Security Monitoring Reporting System which captured the vulnerabilities
present in the Cisco offerings and provided predefined fixes as per CISCO IC
● Designed and developed Communication Tool that automates the communication to internal
clients dynamically using REST APIs, increasing the productivity of the team by over 50%. The key
features were predefined email templates and customized email templates
● Developed Status Page Application integrated with Appdynamics and Nagios, that aided customers
to visualize the application health status and availability. The application was subscribed by 50+
external Cisco customers
● Designed and developed Availability Plus application that processed the real‑time health status
data of the business‑critical applications and aided in visualizing it in a user‑friendly manner
● Designed and developed Unified Portal to have the status of all the services running on the Cisco
Servers in one single place using Python and front‑end technologies, to run scripts (through
parallel execution) in the backend reducing application downtime by ~80%
● Worked on designing Workflows in ServiceNow platform for self‑healing of services running on
Cisco servers
● Worked on the installation of Appdynamics agents and configured alerts by writing scripts based
on predefined thresholds and business rules
● Promoted as Software Engineer II within 1.5 years of joining Cisco
Stride ­ Product Developer Intern Jan 2014 ­ June 2015
● Designed an algorithm that compresses the input file size by removing the duplicates, producing a
new file, also can convert the new file generated back to the original input file using the concepts
of hash tables
● Worked on developing an Anonymous Question and Answer Platform for intellectual,
interactive, and unbiased discussions. It includes features like customized news feed,
location‑based spell‑checker, and profanity filter. This work was submitted as final year project to
my University, and it won the Best Project Award for the year 2014‑2015

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PROJECTS
Monopoly Game Simulation (Spring 2019) [Java, JSP, HTML, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, Servlets]
● Simulation of a smaller version of the real‑world Monopoly game through a web application using
object‑oriented concepts and design patterns
● This simulated version is a two player game with a reduced board that contains 24 plots in total
and including most of the rules of the original game
Chicago Crime Exploration (Spring 2019) [Flask, Docker, Apache Spark,GCP]
● Exploration of distribution of various crimes in the city of Chicago using big data technologies
POS Tagger ­ Implementation of Viterbi (Fall 2018) [Python]
● Implemented Part of Speech Tagger with both Baseline (Most Frequent Tags) and Viterbi
Algorithm (Bigram Hidden Markov Model)
Unified Portal (Cisco 2018) [Laravel, Python, Jenkins]
● Dashboard integrated with Jenkins to have the status of all the services running on the Cisco
Servers in one single place
● Parallel operations on the servers via the panel resulted in productivity gain
Availability Plus Application (Cisco 2016) [Node JS, AngularJS]
● An application which processes the real‑time health status data of the business‑critical
applications and aids in visualizing it in a user‑friendly manner. This application is now in
production, both as a desktop and mobile app
● Integrated pushdown notification system to keep the user informed on the critical issues related to
the applications along with the cause
Communication Tool Application (Cisco 2017) [Laravel, Python, Shell Scripting]
● Communication Application that has features of auto‑mailing, predefined email templates, and
customized templates which has helped in productivity gain by reducing substantial manual
efforts
● Integrated with a ticketing system called Remedy, to auto‑create tickets upon detection of
incidents in business‑critical applications
Song Recommender System (Summer 2014) [PHP, Javascript, C]
● Recommender System developed using Data Mining concepts like Association Learning and
Frequency Sets, which suggests user songs they may like, based on their previous preferences
● Integrated feedback system to improve the efficiency of the recommendations
Online Cafe Ordering Application (Fall 2013) [HTML, Javascript, PHP, MySQL, Bootstrap]
● Application which provides an interface to the user for ordering cafeteria items and returns the
bill via mail
ACTIVITIES AND ACHIEVEMENTS
● Certified ServiceNow System Administrator
● Certified EMC Academic Associate in Information Storage and Management
● Regular writer in platforms like Launchora ( https://www.launchora.com/PriyankaPandit )
and Campus Diaries