SAGAR UMESH DAMA

919-561-9785| [email protected] | https://sagar110599.github.io/MyProfile/

EDUCATION
North Carolina State University, NC USA Aug 2023-Dec 2024
Master of Computer Science CGPA 3.9/4
Relevant Courses: Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Software Engineering, Automated Learning and Data Analysis, Software Security,
Object Oriented Design and Development, Neural Networks, Database Systems, GenAI for Software Engineering
K.J Somaiya College of Engineering, Mumbai, India Aug 2017-May 2021
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science CGPA 3.7/4
Relevant Courses: Data Warehousing, Operating Systems, Adv. DBMS, Project Management, Artificial Intelligence, System Security
TECHNICAL SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS
●​ Languages and Databases:Java, Python, PHP, Ruby, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, C++, C#, KDB+, GoLang, GraphQL
●​ Tools/Frameworks: Spring Security, Spring Boot, Django, Angular, Flask, Node, Junit, Flutter, HTML5, CSS, AJAX, Data Structures,
Algorithms, Git, Jira, Docker, JSON, Jenkins, Microservices, APIs, OOP, Selenium, JavaScript, Cypress, Jasmine, Cucumber, TypeScript,
Agile, AWS, Mockito, PyTest, Pandas, Numpy, Scrum, Rails, React, Unix & Linux, DevOps, Gradle, ActiveMQ, SonarQube, ZAP tool, Azure
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer Intern | Rocket Mortgage, Detroit, MI, USA May 2024-Aug 2024
●​ Collaborated to develop Rocket Homes and Rocket Mortgage pre-sign-in websites, enhancing user experience and site reliability.
●​ Increased user retention and usability of the Rent-vs-Buy calculator by 60% through the development of a dynamic React web
component using the MUI Charts Library, enabling interactive data visualizations such as line, bar, and column charts.
●​ Contributed to the migration of search functionality in Rocket Blogs from Google Cloud Search to an AI-enabled intelligent search using
AWS Kendra, improving search accuracy by 25% and reducing query response time by 30%.
●​ Leveraged the AI capabilities of AWS Bedrock to prompt-engineer the Llama-3B model for summarizing blog content, boosting user
engagement by 25% through the delivery of quick and digestible summaries.
Software Engineer | Center of Integrated Pest Management, Raleigh, NC, USA Sept 2023-Present
●​ Pioneered the Modernization of the Legacy ColdFusion Application by analyzing system inefficiencies and proposing a transition to an
Angular-Django REST API Architecture, achieving a 75% reduction in response time from 4 seconds to 1 second.
●​ Formulated an asynchronous task queue using Celery and Redis to fetch pest data from multiple databases (EPPO, IPCC, iNaturalist,
GBIF) on a single page, resulting in a 60% improvement in user engagement.
●​ Led the team to achieve 90% Jasmine UI coverage and 95% PyTest coverage in Django, ensuring high-quality code and reliability.
●​ Engineered secure REST API Django endpoints using JWT authentication and replaced raw SQL queries with Django ORM, enhancing
security and increasing database portability.
Software Engineer​| Wissen Technology, Mumbai, India Jun 2021-Jul 2023
●​ Collaborated with business stakeholders and analysts to improve the analysis report generation speed and accuracy by 60% by
developing a stock analysis tool using Angular and Spring Boot while working as a Contingent Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley.
●​ Identified design inefficiencies and improved application performance by 40% by enabling multithreading within KDB data storage.
●​ Designed an asynchronous caching service to cache KDB queries into MongoDB using ActiveMQ, reducing load on KDB and improving
application performance by 80%.
●​ Administered the application testing to achieve 93% Angular Coverage and 100% JUnit and Mockito Coverage for backend services
●​ Dockerized the application to make it 100% cloud-compatible by leveraging Bitbucket for version control and Jenkins for CI/CD.
●​ Designed data comparison Flask REST API endpoints using Python Pandas to automate data verification and validation across different
environments as part of the verification step in the DevOps pipeline.
Application Development Intern | Digiliyo Technologies, Mumbai, India ​ ​ Jan 2021-Mar 2021
●​ Optimized the operational cost by 70% by outlining secured API endpoints via Django Admin Dashboard using Django Token-based
Authentication, AWS S3 and AWS RDS enabling admin to manage static as well as dynamic customer data.
●​ Pioneered the adoption of video-on-demand service to reduce operational cost and increase user engagement by 60% by integrating
Cloudfront and MediaConvert for streaming content on Flutter App. Integrated Google sign-in and Razor-Pay in the mobile app.
PROJECTS
E-Commerce Application | Java, Spring Boot, Angular, SQL, RazorPay | https://github.com/sagar110599/Angular-SpringBoot-App
●​ A secure, token-based e-commerce application built with Angular and Spring Boot, featuring modular services including product
service, cart service, user service, admin service along with RazorPay integration for seamless payments.

ChatRoom | Django, React, SQLite, Django-Channels | https://github.com/sagar110599/ChatRoom

●​ The ChatRoom is a full-stack web application using React and Django enabling users to join chat rooms and exchange messages in
real-time securely.

WolfEvents-Event Manager | Ruby on Rails, SQL, HTML, CSS, JS | https://github.ncsu.edu/Program-2-Ruby-on-Rails/WolfEvents

●​ Management System enables attendees to explore events and purchase tickets. Attendees can also provide reviews for the events they
have attended. Additionally, the admin has the capability to create events, and access information on all attendees, tickets, and reviews.

Tech-Bud | Node.js, Angular, MongoDB, Web Scraping, Express.js | https://github.com/sagar110599/Tech-Bud

●​ Transform the E-Commerce shopping experience by getting a comparative review of a product across multiple websites in one page.
●​ Collaborated with team members towards designing and implementing the user interface and REST API Architecture for the system.