Dwarkanath Prabhu

Work Experience

WorkSpan is a SaaS platform for companies to build and manage joint sales partnerships

• Led a team of 3 developers to automate product configurations saving 4 hours of employee time per customer
• Implemented OIDC authentication in Angular for customers to use their own SSO provider to login to WorkSpan
• Created a microservice to listen to updates in Microsoft Partner Center via a webhook. Migrated over 50,000 objects for existing customers to new microservice
• Replaced config and .env files with GCP Secret Manager to store sensitive information like API keys more securely
• Developed a REST API and deployed to Google Cloud to translate data from Google Partner Advantage Portal pub/sub topic and share with customers
• Internal Python Automation Scripts
• Identify and delete duplicate objects from DataStore (GCP NoSQL database)
• Make hitherto single person accessible files company wide accessible
• Daily and weekly error reports from trace logs in BigQuery
• Post error messages to each product's respective slack channels for customer service teams to monitor

CMS Inc. is an event management company specializing in academic conferences

Virtual Conference Platform

• Led the execution of 2 virtual conferences from start to finish attended by 15,000 attendees each
• Architected and built an application for on-demand access to paper presentation videos used by over 100,000 users
• Developed a web application for users to register and upload presentation videos to an AWS S3 Bucket
• Automated Zoom Meetings creation using Zoom API for live sessions with access limited to authorized participants

Sponsor Registration System

• Created customized sponsor registration systems in ASP with a SQL Server database for 10+ conferences
• Designed a visual booth selection interface using CSS Grid
• Developed a payment system to charge credit cards using Authorize.Net

Paper Management System

• Refactored 15 year old code to assign reviewers to papers from PHP to Python
• Led the development of the API for paper authors to submit copyright to IEEE
• Built full-text search for papers by creating an API in PHP and making AJAX calls to it
• Automated creation of post-conference proceedings using a Flask app served via nginx on Debian

Skin Cancer Detection Using Deep Learning (Computer Vision)

• Analyzed a labeled dataset of 10,000+ skin images to classify into 7 types of diseases
• Achieved validation set multi-class precision of 87.5% - a 25% improvement over baseline by using ResNet50 (pretrained on ImageNet), Data Augmentation and Weighted Loss to fix class imbalance

Power Generation Capacity Planning – Conference Paper (Optimization)

• Modeled and solved a bi-objective optimization problem using linear programming to minimize water utilization and cost for power generation in Texas with CPLEX in C++ over the next 25 years
• Built an app using Shiny framework for R and GIS data to display optimal solutions on a map

Aasaanjobs.com (now Rocket) is a job portal for entry-level jobs in India

• Hired and managed a team of 10 including copywriters, designers, editors and digital marketers

Deloitte is one of the largest consulting firms in the world.

Projects

• Created a React app to generate a startup name using the formula ProductName + Animal (eg. mailchimp)
• Deployed a Node.js function to AWS Lambda as an API to check if .com domain is available to register for the name

Week In Memes is a blog that maintains a record of all Indian meme templates as they are generated and used

• Wrote 100+ articles in 1 year using a Python script that scrapes Twitter for memes on trending topics
• Designed a custom CSS theme for Hugo (Golang based static site generator) to publish the blog
• Devised Python scripts for automation of social media posting to Twitter and Pinterest saving time by 80%
• Automated liking posts, commenting and following users on instagram; Increased followers by 300% in a month
• Grew to 12,000+ visitors/month using Search Engine Optimization, Email Marketing and Social Media at no cost

• Built a web app with Flask back-end, Bootstrap front-end and SQL database for user-generated posts like Twitter
• Implemented ElasticSearch to search for posts and users. Deployed to cloud via Heroku

Education