I'm Rashmi Ojha

25 years young, Software Engineer, Data Scientist and Puzzle Solver.

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Hello, My Name is Rashmi.

An aspiring Data Scientist, born and grew up in Udaipur, India. Highly motivated creative Software Engineer with experience in FinTech industry.

A graduate student in Computer Science with 2+ years of professional experience with Java, Spring, REST, Microservices, Information Security, and Cryptography. Also, having advanced knowledge and proficiency in the field of data science and information retrieval. Highly skilled in web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript and node.js. Looking to kickstart a challenging career in the field of application development / data science.

Contact Details

  • Rashmi Ojha
  • College Station, TX, USA
  • rashmiojha.cse@gmail.com
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My Projects

AutoML Video Classification

  • Developed a video classification module to expand the functionality of Auto-Keras (an open source AutoML framework)
  • Trained a 3D convolutional neural network to capture spatiotemporal features of video on UCF-101 dataset
  • Hill-Climbing based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) to automatically search for architectures and hyper-parameters

Toxic Comment Classification

  • Developed an intelligent system to measure the probability of a comment being derogatory
  • Built a web application to check toxicity and classify a comment as obscene, threat, insult or identity hate
  • Combined natural language processing and machine learning methods to generate a 98% accurate classification model

Bot Detection in Bidding Systems

  • Identification of bots from the bidders participating in multiple auctions
  • Based on several features extracted from diverse heterogenous data like bid time, device used, IP address, etc.
  • Model is a combination of the three best performing ensemble methods achieving a final accuracy of 94%

Food Recommendation Engine

  • Incorporated collaborative filtering and matrix factorization techniques on Amazon Fine Foods dataset
  • Trending and Personalized recommendations for users based on their history and similarity with other items and users

Web-Based Password Manager

  • Web application to securely store large collections of passwords with additional feature of password generation
  • Highly secured application with CAPTCHA based authentication and information storage using cryptographic algorithms

Image Steganography Tool

  • Desktop application to perform image steganography using core java and swing
  • The utility allows encryption/decryption of text and then embedding/retrieving it from PNG images

My Strengths

90%
Creativity
95%
Reliable
80%
Comunication
70%
Leadership
100%
Team Player

My Resume

My Education
2011 - 2019

2017 - 2019

Masters Degree - Texas A&M University, USA GPA: 3.9

Master of Science, Computer Science

Coursework: Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Information Storage and Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing, Modern Cryptography, Analysis of Algorithms, Software Engineering

2011 - 2015

Bachelors Degree - Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, India GPA: 3.80, Gold Medal

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science and Engineering

Coursework: Data Structures, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Network Security and Cryptography, Computer Networks, Object Oriented Programming, Theory of Computer Science, Computer Architecture

Work Experience
2014 - 2018

2018 - 2018

Software Engineer Intern - PayPal, San Jose, CA

Back End [Information Security & Cryptography]

  • Improved the security of PayPal’s key management tool’s bootstrapper by making it independent from legacy services
  • Implemented multiple encryption techniques to secure sensitive data using Hardware Security Module (HSM)
  • Dockerized the bootstrapper to make it more secure, portable, cloud based and optimized

2015 - 2017

Assistant Software Engineer - TCSL, India

Full Stack

  • Served as a Full Stack Developer for a multinational Investment Bank to develop a Compliance Monitoring System
  • Mentored trainee associates in “Java Programming” and “Data Structures”
  • Conducted brain storming sessions with clients for requirement elicitation and architecture design

2014 - 2014

Software Engineer Intern - KAN Software, India

Front-End

  • Designed company website using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery and PHP
  • Gained necessary knowledge in front end technologies and initial exposure to professional web development

References

Barclays Technology Centre, India

"Rashmi is a multi talented IT professional. She joined as a GRAD fresh out of college in my team and within no time proved that she has lot to offer and can compete with any experienced IT person. she has contributed to lot of projects in my team covering varied technologies. The best thing about Rashmi is dedication and killer instinct to complete a task. Once a task is given, she will always give her best to complete it before time. she is not afraid of venturing into complicated tasks and always outperformed other peers while working on complex assignments. I strongly recommend Rashmi based on my experience of past 1.5 years. I believe she will be an invaluable asset to the firm she will be associated with."

Arbab Ali Khan
Delivery Lead, Barclays India

Barclays Technology Centre, India

"In my last two years managing Rashmi directly, she has proven consistently that she's capable, competent and quick to pick up challenges of development in a fast paced, innovative environment. With an ease she always picked up new technologies/concepts , contributed a vast body of work across multiple languages, platforms and technologies. Her amazing enthusiasm to learn things makes her to embrace the work with dedication and loyalty. She always took the effort to meet deadlines and contribute quality solutions to technical problems by staying late and working over the weekends as required. She kept her focus on software delivery and ably supported the applications.I found her to be one of the most valuable members of my team. She is a team player and working with her was a pleasure."

Apurva Aeron
Assistant Vice President, Barclays India

Tata Consultancy Services

"It’s rare that you come across a standout talent like Rashmi. I worked with Rashmi when she joined TCS as a RCG collaborating on several tasks. Her ability to quickly understand complex problems and solve them efficiently really impressed me. Being a fellow puzzler, I sure miss working with her. Rashmi would be an asset to any team she works with."

Pushkar Ladhe
Software Engineer, Cerner

Skills & Expertise

95%

Java

70%

Spring / SpringBoot

85%

Python

85%

HTML5 + CSS3

70%

JavaScript

65%

node.js

75%

Machine Learning

70%

Deep Learning

75%

Information Retrieval (SEO, Recommenders)

60%

Cloud Technologies

65%

SQL

80%

Cryptography

Platforms

Maven

80%

JIRA

75%

GIT

85%

REST / SOAP

80%

Tomcat

45%

Jenkins

65%

Confluence

60%

Docker

70%

Micro-Services

65%

IDE (Eclipse / IntelliJ / PyCharm)

80%

Accolades

University Gold Medal

Awarded by MPUAT, India for achieving institute rank 1

TCS On The Spot Award 2016-2017

Received twice for excellent performance in financial quarter Q3 and Q4 2016-17

Research Paper 'Performance Analysis of AODV and DSDV Routing Protocols n MANET'

Presented paper in International Seminar and Workshop on Knowledge Based Software Engineering (KBSE-2013)

Jamna Devi Chugh Award

Awarded for being the topper in high school

Ramani Memorial Award

Awarded for securing highest marks in Computer Science in high school

Amul Vidya Bhushan Award

Conferred by Amul Ltd. for outstanding performance in high school

Milestones Achieved

10 K+

Lines of Code

22

Courses Studied

6

Projects

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