Resume

Hi 👋🏽 I'm Tejas, a self taught programmer based in India with 1.5 years of industry experience and 4 years of freelancing experience in various domains.

🗺️ India

🔗 LinkedIn

🚀 Kaggle

💻 Leetcode

🏫 MentorCruise

💻 Medium Blog

🏆 Achievements

Facebook PyTorch Scholarship

KPIT Udacity Autonomous Tech Scholarship

Consensys Blockchain Developer Scholarship

WorldQuant University Data Science Scholarship

Facebook Developer Circles Training Scholarship

🏅 Certificates

Deep Learning Nanodegree

Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree

Ethereum Developer Certificate

WorldQuant University Applied Data Science

DataCamp Machine Learning Scientist Track

Object Oriented Programming with Java

Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree

📝 Papers

Coming soon...

Research Engineer

💼 Work Experience

Research Engineer | Private AI Course Mentor

OpenMined, Remote (Freelancing)

Role: Private AI Course Mentor (January 2021 - Present)

• OpenMined's Private AI Course series was designed to educate everyone on the impact of privacy in every industry and how to build real-world products with privacy-preserving AI technology

Role: Research Engineer (April 2020 - July 2020)

• OpenMined's Research Programme involves collaboration between Research Engineers and Research Scientists for researching and publishing papers on Machine Learning under the umbrella of OpenMined.
• I collaborated with a Research Scientist on a paper related to Federated Machine Learning. The goal was to perform a distributed injection of adversarial samples during the training phase to successfully poison the final model aggregated at the central server.

Elite Machine Learning Mentor

Udacity, Remote (Contract)

Role: Independent Consultant (March 2019 - Present)

• As a consultant, I utilize my specialized knowledge in Machine Learning to provide project reviews and other student support services.
• I have mentored more than 200 students so far and provided personalized reviews for 1600+ project submissions and 1100+ student queries.
• Recognized as an Elite Mentor based on student feedback and quality of code reviews. Elite reviewers are given preferential treatment in project queues to ensure high quality feedback for students and provide more earning opportunities for the reviewer.
• Applauded for my hard work in Udacity’s June 2020 Newsletter.
• One of the winners of Answer Rate Acceptance Challenge (November 2020).
• Winner of Mentor Community Award - peer mentors nominated me for my contribution to community and the quality of reviews I provide to Udacity students (December 2020).
• Spotlight Mentor/Reviewer (January 2021).

Assistant Systems Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai

Role: Junior Developer, Payments Module (July 2017 - October 2018)

Brexit Migration

• Praised by clients for deploying more than 20 DPUs, 3 months ahead of schedule. All DPUs ran successfully on production environment without any major issues.
• Migrated 12 critical file transfer interfaces under this module, aiding the clients in accelerating their migration process.
• Rescheduled pre-configured jobs in system queue, speeding up total file transfer time by more than a minute.

Utilities Automation

• Worked on Pathway Automation Project that completely automated the client-side package installation process and led to a 40% decrease in installation issues faced by clients.
• Automated critical monthly reporting utilities using Excel VBA macros. This led to more than 75% reduction in manual effort.

🛠 Skills

• Python

• Keras

• AWS

• Git

• PyTorch

• Tensorflow

• SQL

• Java

📚 Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Major: Electronics & Telecommunication

GPA - 7.78

Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, University of Mumbai

2013 - 2017

🗣 Languages

🏛️ Organizations

• Social Wing RAIT - Orphanage Coordinator 07/2015 – 06/2016
• Blue Ribbon Movement (Community Connect Fellowship) – Volunteer  07/2016 – 12/2016
• People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL, Maharashtra) – Volunteer 03/2018 – 08/2018
• XDA Developers (Contributor) 01/2012 – 06/2015

📜 Articles

Easier to Ask for Forgiveness than Permission - A tale of Python's eccentricity

Duet Demo — How to do data science on data owned by a different organization