Ashwin Raghunath

MS in Applied Computer Science

September 2021 - Present

Relevant Coursework

• Distributed Systems
• Design and analysis of algorithms
• Computer networks

B.E in Information Science

August 2014 - May 2018

Relevant Coursework

• Data structues
• Database management
• Core Java

Capital One

May 2022 - August 2022

Software Engineer Intern

• Designed end-to-end architecture for a serverless payment processing application.
• Developed an event driven springboot java app leveraging AWS services like S3, Lambda, Route 53 and Cloudwatch.
• Decreased testing effort of team by using AWS SAM and created unit and integration tests with Junit and Cucumber.
• Deployed to Dev and QA environments using jenkins based managed pipelines.

TEKsystems global services

July 2018 - April 2021

Software Engineer

• Built REST enabled end-points in spring boot for the client T.Rowe Price’s retirement services portfolio website with UI in MVC model using JSP and Javascript.
• Independently led a low latency application called Statement validator for the client T.Rowe Price for parallel stream processing of thousands of finance statement files increasing the processing speed over 10x.
• Optimized stream processing to validate files stored in an Amazon S3 location against the corresponding XML files thereby improving the performance by about 35%.
• Deployed applications on dev/stage environments and helped in production deployments.
• Responsible for communication with clients and acted as a bridge between the offshore and onshore development teams.
• Mentored new teammates and interns in the project after on-boarding.
• Awarded employee of the quarter in 2021.

TEKsystems global services

Jan 2018 - April 2018

Software Developer

• Developed an application to make use of the resources available within the organization and comparing their skills.
• Operated as a full stack developer with spring boot, angular and MongoDB.

Currency exchange microservices Github

---

• Developed a set of microservices that are able to perform currency conversions on a given amount based on the current exchange rate.
• Containerized the microservices using Docker
• Deployed on AWS ECS (Fargate)
• Implemented CI/CD integration with AWS codepipeline
• Added centralized configuration using AWS SSM
• Enabled distributed tracing using AWS X-Ray

High throughput Kafka-Elasticsearch pipeline Github

---

• Designed a highly efficient processing application of financial articles dataset of over 1 GB by making use of necessary compression techniques and optimum batch sizes ensuring auto-scaling.
• Configured Kafka to be a fault tolerant system to it’s maximum potential.
• Indexing data onto Elasticsearch, sharding it based on the website from which the article is from and visualizing it using Kibana.

GitHub search engine Github

---

• Created a web application in Play and AKKA that analyzes GitHub content, making use of websockets
• Implemented actor based approach to fetch various details including user profile, repository profile and statistics on the issues and commits of a repository
• Performed Junit test coverage using Akka’s Testkit.
• Set up a multibranch Jenkins pipeline with Git

Languages

Deployment strategies

Databases

Frameworks and libraries

Web technologies

Tools

Platforms