Dwarkanath Prabhu

Work Experience

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

Co-Sell with AWS API

• Led the transformation from an S3-based data exchange system to a real-time API-based system for submitting sales leads to AWS, improving efficiency for 70 customers
• Designed and implemented a secure architecture using IAM roles, STS, Lambda functions, and EventBridge, reducing data processing time from 30 minutes to 6
• Integrated the new API to automatically sync customer-defined solutions to the database, enabling customers to select solutions from a dropdown when attaching them to sales leads, eliminating the need for manual entry
• Built CI/CD pipeline to deploy the new AWS services using Jenkins and bash scripts
• Created CloudFormation infrastructure as code template for a seamless migration for all customers

Co-Sell with Google

• Led the development of Co-Sell with Google enabling customers to share sales leads with Google Partner Advantage Portal (PAP)
• Developed a subscription in GCP to receive leads from Google PAP pub/sub topic and share with customers
• Implemented OAuth 2.0 login in Angular allowing customers to use their preferred identity provider for authentication
• Onboarded 10 customers facilitating the sharing of over $1.5 billion worth of leads

Internal Python Automation Scripts

• Product configuration installations for new customers
• Identify and delete duplicate objects from DataStore (GCP NoSQL database)
• 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

• Spearheaded the execution of two virtual conferences, each hosting 15,000 attendees, from concept to completion
• 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.NET with a SQL Server database for 10+ conferences
• Designed an intuitive booth selection interface using CSS Grid
• Developed a secure payment system using Authorize.Net for credit card transactions

Paper Management System

• Refactored legacy PHP code into Python for efficient reviewer assignment
• Led the development of the API enabling paper authors to submit copyright to IEEE
• Implemented a robust full-text search functionality for papers through a PHP-based API with AJAX calls
• 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%
• Grew to 12,000+ visitors/month using Search Engine Optimization, Email Marketing and Social Media at no cost

Education