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Software Engineer

Microsoft

Shipped Windows 10 Photos app ( C++ )
- Designed and implemented image analysis pipeline. This pipeline brings together various imaging algorithms together and also supports versioning.
- Performance improvements of as much as 4x across various components of the analysis pipeline.
- Solely architected the app to support multiple windows in the Photos app.
- Integrated edit pipeline from windows 8.1 Photo editor into the viewer to show users enhanced version of their photos.
- Created an internal first party API to allow other apps to use the crop control in the Photos app.
- Worked with multiple teams in windows platform to get new features added to improve Photos app. 
- Mentored junior developers.
- Connected OneDrive album experience with Photos app album experience allowing users to manage or publish albums to OneDrive.
- Added album share so that users can share their favorite albums with friends and family.
- Working on getting more features in for the Photos app.

Software Development Engineer II

Shipped windows raw codec as part of windows update on windows 8.
- Performance improvements on arm 
- Deployment schema for windows update.

Photo Editor - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, Direct2D, SIMD, XAML, PPL)
- Core member for the design of image editing effect pipeline, rending engine and a variety of edit features.
- Added the direct2d rendering engine in the photo editor.
- Performance improvements for edit features using vectorization and multi core programming.
- Ensured 30FPS on most devices.
- Added image straighten, blemish removal + local area pixel fix engine, revamped crop & selective focus and other contributions

Video Trim - Windows 8.1 Photos app. ( C++ 11, XAML, PPL)
- Implemented the complete video trim feature for the photos app.

Camera - Windows 8.1 Camera App ( C++ 11, PPL, XAML)
- Improved startup performance by more than 50%
- Improved performance of other core scenarios by significant amount.
- Feature contributions.

Stood up a TFS + git based build system for the team.

Software Development Engineer

Georgia Institute of Technology

Worked on web applications for marketing studies. (Php, MySQL)

Web Developer

Added Auto Collage in Windows Photo gallery. (C++, COM)

Software Development Intern

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- Mentored many senior & staff engineers and managers. 
- Designed & built multiple systems with critical focus on scalability & reliability. 
- Solved many cross team & organization misalignments with my inter-personal skills. 

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Raviraj Achar

JPMorganChase

Building infrastructure for Linear Interest rate products.

Quantitative Research Associate 

Working in QR Rates Team. Developing Pricing and Risk Infrastructure for Interest Rate Derivatives.

Quantitative Research Analyst

Publicis Sapient

- Designed a generic sectioning algorithm for Resume Parsing which parses various kinds of resumes.
- Used MultiThreading, Tesseract-OCR, and DeepLearning methods to achieve SOTA accuracy (>85%) in detecting various sections of a resume.
- Built an event-driven pipeline on AWS using Docker-based Lambda functions and Amazon SQS.

Engineering Intern

Department of CSE, IIT Hyderabad

- Took classes on the need for version control systems such as Git and Github and using them.
- Assisted professor in grading the assignments & exams

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

My work as a core team member was to teach students algorithms, data
structures, to introduce them to competitive programming.

Core Member Infero

My work as a core team member was to teach and encourage students to
participate in ML and DL competitions

Achievements: 
Won Cash Prize of 5000 INR (March 2021) for Explainability in DL
competition held by MebesideYou Inc.

Core Member Epoch

Built a web-app for Unbeatable Tic-Tac-Toe game using the Minimax Algorithm.

https://akashtadwai.github.io/Tic-Tac-Toe/

Mentee, Microsoft Engage 2020

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad

Mentored B. Tech first year students with regard to academic issues and general life at IIT H.

Student Mentor

As a speaker curator at EML, my duty is to contact many different personalities who will inspire and motivate students. Our theme as EML is to give students an insight into the lives and ways of the leading lights of our generation.

 Speaker Curator

E-Cell, IIT Hyderabad

Assistant Manager

I am currently a Quantitative Researcher at JP Morgan Chase in QR Rates Team. I am Passionate about problem-solving and machine learning. Skilled in  C++, Python, Data Structures, and Algorithms. Interested in Data Analysis and Machine Learning.

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