Koushik Grandhi

Cityline· Richardson, TX 75252 · (530) 382-6702 ·

Experienced Software Developer with a keen interest to solve challenging problems having a strong foundation in multiple Computer Technologies. Currently in the second semester at the University of Texas at Dallas with Master's in Computer Software Engineering.


Experience

Software Engineer

CBRE Inc.

I started as a full-time engineer with the Econometric Advisors team, contributing to Benchmarker 2.0 by developing features, building frontend components with Angular, and designing backend models and database schemas for data-driven analytics in the hospitality industry. Subsequently, I joined the Global Workspace Solutions team, enhancing MyData, a client-facing application, through full-stack development and key design decisions.

Currently, I am part of the Next Action Recommendation Engine team, where I designed and built a data pipeline to integrate AI driven insights and metrics into Vantage Analytics, enabling data-driven recommendations for clients with required customizations and requirements.

June 2022 - Present

Intern - Software Engineer

Axxess Healthcare

Worked on Axxess's Homecare project as a software engineer which is a professional all-platform application to assist patients and medical agencies on a daily basis with medical or non-medical services.

Developed and deployed new features related to scheduling of client orders and also worked to rectify issues in the existing workflow of certain features such as pdf generation, notifications, and billing APIs

January 2022 - May 2022

Software systems Engineer

Edgeverve systems, Infosys

During these 2 years I worked on numerous projects, related to automation of Windows Application (Pegasus, SAP and Mainframe), Development of Windows Applications, API Development for Automation, Automated Recognition of Texts from Scanned ID's and Documents .

November 2018 - December 2020

Intern - Software Systems Engineer

Infosys

A 4 months training program was a part of the Infosys recruitment process, which helped in practical understanding of software lifecycle in IT industry and understanding of Technologies being used by implementation.

January 2018 - May 2018

Intern - Study on IT Service framework

Tata Group

Learned Information Technology Information Library Framework (ITIL v4) used at the global level enterprise to understand How Data and Resources are shared across various departments securely at different locations.

June 2017 - July 2017

Intern - Database Design

Pinion Services Limited

Developed a Relational DB architecture to manage employee details in MS SQL Server for a mid-size enterprise.

June 2016 - July 2016

Education

University of Texas, Dallas

Master's of Science - Computer Software Engineering
Relevant Courses : Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms , Machine Learning, Software Requirements Engineering, Software Testing and Validation
January 2021 - Present

SRM University, Chennai, India

Bachelor's of Technology - Computer Science Engineering

GPA: 8.9/10

Diverse study on various subjects with focused learnings in Data Mining Techniques and Machine Learning Algorithms. Researched to identify the right evaluation metric on feedback data using SVM multiclass classification model to rate the faculty performance and developed a web application to test the model on real-time feedback.
August 2014 - May 2018

Project Categories

Machine Learning

(In alphabetical order)

AdultCensusData : Built models using sklearn and analyzed data based on the accuracies of Naive Bayes, Decision Tree, Nearest Neighbour, Logistic Regression algorithms for better understanding.

Cats & Dogs : Implemented a Convolution Neural Network for classification of images after pre-processing using TensorFlow, which gave a mean test accuracy of 91% across multiple Epochs. Also, used Transfer learning to train the images on the InceptionV3 model which gave an average mean test accuracy of 96% for comparison of the results.

DecisionTreenEnsembles : Implementation of the ID3 algorithm and Ensembles(Bagging and Boosting) without libraries using Mutual Information on Monks and Mushroom dataset along with the implementation of sklearn DecisionTreeClassifier algorithm for result comparison.

ESG Score Generator : Developed a pipline for computing a statement's co-relation with Environment, Social and Governance using Bert model on embeddings and Faiss search on indexed vactors and further using cosine similarity on ESG Embeddings and Non-ESG Embeddings to calculate the difference to condition if the statement involves ESG factor or not. Used Streamlit to render frontend for input.

Fashion MNIST classification : Implemented DNN model to classify the famous dataset that gave an accuracy of 91.6% on validation.

Human and Horse Image Classification : Trained a CNN model on 500 images of Horses and Humans with a mean accuracy of ~84% on the validation set of around 120 images each.

Next Day Rain Predition : Analyzed the Australian Rain Prediction dataset consisting of 23 features having many missing data and outliers then preprocessed and selected correlated features to train on traditional ML algorithms to evaluate the performance of algorithms by accuracy, scalability, interpretability, robustness to outliers and measure the improvement by introducing Bagging & Boosting.

Object Tracking using Histogram extraction : Used OpenCV to capture Pixel Intensity of any object and used the resulted information to track the object.

Picture Stacking for Image Enhancement : Implemented ORB (Oriented and Rotated Brief) and ECC (Enhanced Correlation Coefficient) algorithms on Images using OpenCV and devised a logical approach to mask dim pixels to further balance quality and noise.

Review Classification using Linear SVM : Used sklearn to extract text features from reviews and trained a model by Pipelining the term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) Vectorization and training SVM model.

Spam Text Classifier : Basic classification of Email /Texts to Spam or Non-Spam using Pipelining on SVC with accuracy of around 98%.

Software Projects in Python

(In alphabetical order)

Browser Call : Basic implementation to open Chrome using Selenium WebDriver on Linux for crawler implementation.

Face Detection on Image : Detects total number of faces present in an image.

Google Calendar automated event creator : Google calendar functional API calls to add and update (or delete) events from an excel sheet automatically.

Google Home Custom action : Created an activity in the developer console to add and get events to/ from Google Calendar after authorizing the voice of the speaker activated by keyword.

Overhead ISS notifier : Sends Requests to International Space Station API to calculate the time left for the satellite to be at the user's current location extracted using IP address. Additional functionality to get a dictated notification of time left.

Test to speech : Used Python's gtts library to convert any text to speech.

Data Analytics

(In alphabetical order)

Amazon Annual Data : Analyzed Amazon financial dataset from 2006 to 2020 to conclude growth rate and most profitable quarter in a year using Pandas library.

Religion vs Homosexuality : Inferred impactful results in Relation between religion and individual opinions on homosexuality based on surveys conducted in various countries by Pew Research Center using Geoplots and Pandas.

Women in Power : Generated useful plots to compare gender inequality status in the context of political appointments and parliamentary representation in different countries from 1997 to 2019 for the given dataset using Plotly and Pandas.


Interests

Apart from being an engineer, I enjoy photography (More Pixels!) and also reading about technical developments/ projects related to images and cameras.

Check out some of my clicks here (G Drive).

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I regularly immerse myself in blogs and books, fueling my curiosity and satisfying my passion for continuous learning. Sometimes, I try to engulf myself in writing my observations (about things happening around me) or summarizing a novel or any technical topic that interests me. You can check the latest (technical) pennings here at my Notion page.