Kumar PallavSOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER

 (+91) 9695733477 |  [email protected] |  kpallav

Summary
Software Engineer in Skellam.ai (AI for B2C Enterprises), with 2.5+ years experience working with recommendation engines, e-commerce, dis-
tributed and decentralized platforms. Interested in devising better problem-solving methods for challenging tasks, and learning new technologies
and tools if the need arises while sometimes just for fun too.

Education
Indian Institute of Information Technology - Allahabad Allahabad, India
B.TECH IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Jul 2012 - May 2016
• CGPA : 8.43/10
• Got Merit Scholarship in all the 8 semesters of undergraduate studies.
Doon International School (CBSE) - 94% Dehradun, India
SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (CLASS XII) 2012
• Scored 99 percentile among more than 1,000,000 students across India in Class XII examination.
Doon International School (CBSE) - 9.8 CGPA Dehradun, India
SECONDARY SCHOOL EXAMINATION (CLASS X) 2010

Work Experience
Skellam.ai Bangalore, India
SDE 2 Feb 2020 - present
• Working to solve optimization problems on hyper-personalized offers using reinforcement learning techniques and developing analytical en-
gines as a SAAS platform for SMB and enterprise customers.
• Billing and Payment Service - Designed and developed payment service for the application to accommodate feature based plans billing
through recurring and one-time charging mechanisms. Extended to support usage-based billing to charge on quantified parametric node
blocks.
Amazon Hyderabad, India
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
• Seller Experience for Temporal Inventory - Modelled and implemented Seller UX for capturing skill and zone based temporal availability
data of technicians. This enabled updating schedules and exceptions at technician level and creating reservations at store/skill level on order
confirmation.
• Marketplace Expansion - As an integral part of the Amazon Home Services team worked along multiple feature stacks related to Discovery,
Checkout and Fulfilment to deliver country specific version of home services in different geographies and marketplaces.
• Recurring Services - Designed and implemented services which are recurring in nature. Service allocation incorporated past user service
ratings, preferences and matched it with current and future recurring avail abilities of service experts.
• Vendor Based Model - Designed and implemented preferred vendor model which rewards service vendors for the customer feedback received
on their service. This increased customer service satisfaction and brand trust while reducing order rescheduling/cancellation and disinterme-
diation rate.
• SDE Mentoring - Actively mentored several SDEs while leading various projects.
Amazon Chennai, India
SDE - INTERN Jan 2016 - Jun 2016
• Platform Migration to Android for Kindle e-reader - Worked as a one-man-team to re-imagine the Kindle eInk Store, involving platform
migration from a native browser support to Android.
• SSR Framework for Wishlist - Developed and launched the new WishList feature in the Kindle e-reader, migrating from the existing CSR frame-
work to SSR framework which increased store’s operational performance by making it device independent.

Academic Work
DETERMINATION OF THE MOST FREQUENT TAXI ROUTES Jan 2015 - May 2015
• As a part of big-data project designed a system to determine the most frequent routes from a streaming data of route transcripts.
• This was the problem statement of the live ACM-DEBS Challenge 2015.
• It involved real-time analytics and working on high volume geospatial data streams.
• Tools used: C++, Apache Spark, Apache Maven, Netcat utility

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SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING (SSL) AND ADAPTIVE BOOSTING (ADABOOST) Jul 2014 - Dec 2014
• As a part of Machine Learning project implemented the semi-supervised learning algorithm through a C++ code which can be used on different
data sets with variable number of attribute features with high accuracy.
• Extended the project by implementing the AdaBoost algorithm, a meta-algorithm to boost naïve classifiers to generate a high accuracy algo-
rithm through boosting, also in C++.
• Tools used: C++, UCI data sets.
DEVELOPER @ EKSHIKSHA, IIT BOMBAY Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
• Developed interactive tools for teaching Mathematics and English to primary class students which included implementing the drag-and-drop
interface, true-false interface and a quiz modules.
• Tools used: ActionScript on Pie Framework.

Awards & Achievements

PROFESSIONAL
2017 JUST DO IT, Recognizing ”Bias for Action” and result-oriented approach in Product Development
2017 Employee of the Quarter, For deep diving into problems and exemplifying customer obsession
2016 Magazine Publication, Work done on E3OS recognized in Amazon India Monthly magazine
2012 Flying Pilot, Recommended for Indian Air Force (IAF) after cracking NDA examination with AIR 12

ACADEMIC
2015 Candidate Master, Codeforces.com - a global online competitive coding platform
2012 99 percentile, Class 12th CBSE examination
2012 99.2 percentile, AIEEE-2012 amongst 1.3 mn students
2012 Merit-Scheme Scholarship, Ministry of Education, India

Skills
Programming JAVA, C/C++, Perl, Python, Good Knowledge of DS/Algo
Frameworks Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Hibernate (JPA), RESTful services
AWS CloudWatch, Lambda, RDS, S3, EC2, ELB, CloudFront
Databses MySQL, DynamoDB
Web HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular (know-how basis)
Languages English, Hindi

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