Resume
Hi ๐๐ฝ 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.
๐บ๏ธ India
๐ LinkedIn
๐ Kaggle
๐ Achievements
Facebook PyTorch Scholarship
KPIT Udacity Autonomous Tech Scholarship
Consensys Blockchain Developer Scholarship
WorldQuant University Data Science Scholarship
Facebook Developer Circles Training Scholarship
๐ Certificates
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
๐ Papers
Coming soon...
Research Engineer
๐ผ 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 Udacityโs 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.
๐ Skills
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Python
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Keras
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AWS
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Git
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PyTorch
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Tensorflow
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SQL
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Java
๐ Education
Bachelor of Engineering
Major: Electronics & Telecommunication
GPA - 7.78
Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, University of Mumbai
2013 - 2017
๐ฃ Languages
English ๐บ๐ธ | Hindi |
German ๐ฉ๐ช |
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Full Working Proficiency | Native Speaker | Elementary Proficiency |
๐๏ธ Organizations
- Social Wing RAIT - Orphanage Coordinator 07/2015 โ 06/2016
- Blue Ribbon Movement (Community Connect Fellowship) โ Volunteerย 07/2016 โ 12/2016
- Peopleโs Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL, Maharashtra) โ Volunteer 03/2018 โ 08/2018
- XDA Developers (Contributor) 01/2012 โ 06/2015
๐ Articles
Easier to Ask for Forgiveness than Permissionโ-โA tale of Python's eccentricity
Duet Demo โ How to do data science on data owned by a different organization