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Pragathi B.

Shekhar
pragathishekhar@gmail.com | http://www.linkedin.com/in/pragathishekhar | Cell: 214-609-0911

52 Skytop Street, San Jose, CA-95134


EDUCATION
The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX
Master of Science in Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering

August 2015
June 2013

WORK EXPERIENCE
Quality Assurance (QA Test/Automation) Engineer at Placester, Inc
November2015 Present
Developed Selenium based automated regression tests using Java and Cucumber software for Placester product- Real estate
website for agents and brokers
Currently working on developing functional tests for the product using Gatling and Scala
Interfacing with Product teams to identify bugs and assign it to the respective Engineering team
Java Developer Consultant at Horizon Technologies
August 2015 November 2015
Worked on prototype including concepts such as Interface, Exception handling, Collections and Multithreading
Data Warehouse Intern at Drillinginfo
June 2014 - August 2014
Analyzed/tested reports in MS SQL Server 2012. Successfully migrated 165 reports from MS SQL Server Reporting
Services(SSRS) 2008 to 2012 onto production environment
Optimized SQL queries to increase report rendering efficiency by 96%

PROJECTS
AQUIRE-Android Quick Information Retrieval
Implemented Android Application in Java using Eclipse
Mobile app for critical data retrieval stored in Android phone using other mobile phones irrespective of their OS.
Facilitates information retrieval to an authenticated user with a Simple Messaging Service
Awarded first place among 14 entries for Undergraduate Senior technical project exhibition VIVACIOUS-E13 held at
VVCE, India
Contact Manager Program-Database Design
Implemented a Database Application with User Interface developed on Microsoft Visual Studio for adding, deleting
contacts and information such as Name, Address, Phone Number stored across multiple tables
MS SQL database for storage. C# used for DB Connectivity
Multiple key word search capability for information retrieval contact last name, phone number. Improved user
experience with automatic population of other information upon retrieval
Natural Language Processing
Implemented Bigram Language model using Katz Back off smoothing, POS tagging using HMM Viterbi decoding,
Sentiment analysis of movie reviews using Nave Bayes classifier in Python
Advanced Computer Networks
Implemented Web Proxy Server using socket programming and multi-threaded programming in C
Implemented Wireless Sensor network simulation that calculates the average maximum, minimum and average
temperature collected from the sensor nodes of the given sensor network topology file in Java. The information is
transmitted through UDP messages after spanning tree is built for the given topology file.
Android game-Barrel Race
Java based Android game which uses accelerometer device. Objective - A horse has to circle all three barrels without
touching them or the fence. Game stores highest score based on time taken to finish game.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming languages
Databases
Web Development
Software and Tools
Protocols

: JAVA, C/C++, Python, Android development, OpenGL ,SQL,C#,T-SQL, Scala


: Oracle, MS SQL Server 2012, My SQL, SQLYog
: HTML, CSS,PHP, JavaScript
: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio 2010,Gatling, Selenium, Git, JIRA, SVN, Wireshark, CRF
: IP, TCP, HTTP,UDP,BGP, DVMRP, MPLS

Relevant Courses:
Data Structures
Artificial Intelligence
Objected Oriented
Analysis and Design

Machine Learning
Database Design
Developing and Securing
the Cloud

Operating Systems
Semantic Web
Design and Analysis of
Computer Algorithms

Natural Language Processing


Advanced Computer Networks
Web Interface Design and
Development

RESEARCH WORK: Internet of Things (IoT)


Performed research work on IoT. Review/Summarization of IEEE papers on Architecture of IoT and Power
Management in IoT. Two survey papers submitted as part of Masters Program Extra Course Work.

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