Nitisha Pandharpurkar: Sept 2015 Till May 2016 IIT Bombay Mumbai
Nitisha Pandharpurkar: Sept 2015 Till May 2016 IIT Bombay Mumbai
Nitisha Pandharpurkar: Sept 2015 Till May 2016 IIT Bombay Mumbai
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NITISHA PANDHARPURKAR
EDUCATION
New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (MAY 2018 expected)
University of Pune, Pune, India (now known as Savitribai Phule Pune University) (MAY 2014)
Secured a Bachelor of Computer Engineering with First Class and Distinction at MKSSS Cummins College of
Engineering for Women, Pune
Secured a distinction score of 70.24% aggregate, and class rank 6/90
WORK EXPERIENCE
Talasari Rural Advisory System: An online web portal to apply for government welfare schemes
o Added features of webflows, and saving incomplete form data to a Groovy on Grails application
Video Classification: Aims to develop a video classification and recommendation engine
o Studied graphical models and meta-learners, Indian language taxonomies
o Wrote a python scripts to generate seed set from data aggregation, and for web mining, and
regex tasks which helped for ontology development
Lokavidya: An Android and desktop application for creating videos
o Was the team lead for the Lokavidya Desktop Application and was the core developer on this
project since its inception. Was also responsible for requirement gathering , meeting and reviews
with the client, the Spoken Tutorial team. Designed architecture for collaboration in Android app
o Created a desktop version of the app using Java and LaTex technologies for modules:
Video Stitching using ffmpeg, Screen recording with and without custom specifications
Time optimizations using multithreading, Apache poi and ffmpeg capabilities, Memento
pattern based engine, as well as UI/UX design.
Software Engineer:
DS Tech Upgrade: Deliver and Store (DS) is Microsoft’s largest datacentre spanning across 4 geographical
locations.
o Completed comprehensive study to finalize the approach for a tech upgrade of DS SQL server to
incorporate usage of SQL Server Always on Availability groups, find differences in SQL Server
2014, maintain data integrity during update process, and scripted the same
o Optimized the script performance 40% using multithreading on self initiative, and convinced the
team to use these scripts
PAIntel: Rewrote services for Azure migration in the Product Database
o Developed rest services to implement OData protocol
o Applied and customized Azure Application Insights for the services
o Performed testing of a Product Part number generating application
PROJECTS:
BE Project: A distributed orchestrator to run their tests, in a seamless, non-interactive fashion handling
node failover and failback
o Developed a multiplatform automated distributed orchestrator in python to run tests, perform
node failover failback and consolidate test reports on a cluster of twenty machines
o Integrated with Jenkins for scheduling, and Bugzilla Testopia for test suite management.
Libreoffice Extension: Developed a libreoffice extension in Java to help format images
‘Table of Contents’ for a website: Developed python script which found the central idea for a section if
not already provided, by using Bag of Words, TF-IDF and k-means clustering
Blog Website: Developed a website using HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP using MySQL database
SKILLS:
SEMINAR: Presented a seminar on “Architecture Patterns in Cloud Computing” with an extensive study on cloud
and grid computing concepts, existing implementations, design patterns and software solutions.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
Seminar: Seminar on “Architecture Patterns in Cloud Computing” was selected among the top 15/270
during undergraduate degree and published in college CSI chapter
Coding: 2nd prize in National Level Coding Competition ‘Innovation’ in C and C++ 2012
Essay Writing: 3rd prize in state-level competition on the topic “Energy Conservation- Need of the Hour”
by MEDA (Maharashtra Energy Development Agency) 2006
Elected “Technical Secretary ” in college elections across all branches and led college tech fest 2013
Extracurricular Activities:
Enthusiast in yoga, gymnastics, jazz and contemporary dance. Has been a part of group dance events.