Srikar Kashyap Pulipaka

59-3-7, Ashok Nagar lane 2, Moghalrajpuram

Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh 520010

+919849323361

srikar.kashyap@gmail.com

http://srikarkashyap.github.io

Professional Summary

Final undergraduate student passionate about revamping the way we live. Strong programming skills in Python, C, Java and HTML/CSS/Bootstrap. Can write NodeJS and ExpressJS code.
Winner Team (Communications vertical) at UC Berkeley Open Innovation Hackathon India

Work Experience

• Summer Intern at India's fastest growing financial technology startup.

• The only Non-IITian and only 2nd year student to get selected.

• Extensive web data scraping and mining involving lakhs of records using Python and associated libraries like Requests, BeautifulSoup, xtree etc

• Hands-on work on Laravel Framework of PHP involving bug identification and fixing, new feature additions with linking to databases

• Technical Lead and Core member of the largest departmental fest of the state of Andhra Pradesh.

• Planned and allocated budget of 5 lakhs to various departments.

• Supervised a team of 180 sophomores and pre-final year students.

• Oversaw a growth of participants by 50% YoY (70% YoY for technical events).

• Established with an aim to bridge the technological gap that exists in Indic Wikipedias.

• Primary task to liaison between the wikimedia community and tech community to solve problems and execute new tool/feature requests.

• Currently involved in many projects including tool porting and extension development.

• Technical Head of FOCUS, the student body of Computer Science Department

• Member, Department Academic Committee

• Restarted and rejuvenated the monthly progress report system - to ensure transparency and accountability in the organization and promote confidence among all the stakeholders.

• Head of the Featured Wikipedian system, a monthly young talent identification system of Wikipedians around India.

• Technical admin of the official website (involving HTML/CSS and MediaWiki languages)

• Website and Registration development team of the upcoming WikiConference India 2016, the largest Wikipedia conference of Asia.

• Among the 1200 strong fellows around the world (229 in Fall 2017) selected through rigorous evaluation and training process.

• Acting as change agents to catalyze change and improvement in my University.

• Attended the annual Silicon Valley Meetup in November 2017, visiting Google Campus and Stanford University for a range of workshops and training sessions.

Education

• Mentor and founding member of the open source group (KLU GNU/Linux UserGroup) of the university.

• Credited with introducing and teaching a wide range of technologies to peers like Git and MediaWiki.

• Customised and deployed the University Wiki (dubbed KLU Wiki) using the MediaWiki framework.

Projects

Voice activated AI app for Rural Population using Open Innovation (August 2017)

• Built at the UC Berkeley Open Innovation Hackathon India

• Used various openly available APIs and frameworks like IBM Watson, Google Cloud Engine and many npm modules

• Functionalities include Text-to-Speech (TTS), Speech-to-Text (STT), Image Recognition, Document Parsing and many more

• Winner of the Communications section 

• Initial Version slated for late 2017 release with support and funding by KL University and Government of Andhra Pradesh

• Built using NodeJS and ExpressJS server with JavaScript and Python helper functions.

REST API for Amazon/Flipkart (May/June 2016)

• Developed a RESTful API for Amazon and Flipkart Product Retrieval using python wrappers.

• Used Requests to retrieve basic information from official API and used WebDriver to manually get other data like pincode availability etc

• Parsed XML and HTML data using BeautifulSoup and Xtree to generate JSON output file

• Hosted the project on Django to accept GET and POST requests for data

• Developed features include search by product id, search by keyword, pincode availability etc

Web Scrapers (May/June 2016)

• Written numerous webscrapers for collecting information about students and colleges nationwide.

• Used Selenium WebDriver and Requests libraries to make automated page request and searches.

• BeautifulSoup and Xtree to identify required data and stored them into CSV and JSON files.

• Total data collected amounts to lakhs of records

Telecom Operator API (May 2016)

• Developed an API to automatically find the Mobile Network operator and type (prepaid/postpaid) using real-time verification from operators websites

• Used PhantomJS and Firefox Selenium Webdrivers to send HTTP requests using Python Requests library

• Identified the result using BeautifulSoup HTMlL/XML parser and stored the data into JSON output.

• Written unittests to verify validity and functioning of the API

Who Wants to be a Millionaire in Java (Jan 2016)

• Java Implementation of the famous TV show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire". All events including two lifelines are covered.

Custom Wiki for the university (Dec 2016 - present)

• A customized MediaWiki installation for the university with many added extensions and tools

• Developed an extension FindRefs targeted at regular editors for reducing the workload of finding resources by aggreating all the links at a single page

Skills

Proficient                                                                                                  

• Python    

• Java (and JSP)

• C

• HTML5/CSS3 (and Bootstrap)

• Libraries: Numpy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Requests, Selenium Webdriver, REST APIs

Comfortable

• C++

• PHP

• Git

• JSON

Platforms and Tools

• Operating Systems: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Android

• Tools: Docker, Vagrant, VirtualBox, Anaconda

• IDEs and Code Editors: NetBeans, Microsoft Visual Studio, Sublime Text, Jupyter Notebook

• Frameworks: IPython, PHP Laravel, MediaWiki, Django, Flask

Accomplishments

• Stanford University Innovation Fellow  - A program by the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school) at Stanford in association with National Science Foundation, Google and many other partners.

• Top 10 Ideas/Prototypes - Megathon 2016 (IIT and IIIT Hyderabad) - Developed a Linux bot similar to Siri in 4 hours integrating many APIs and building new ones.

• All India Rank 40 - National Creativity Aptitude Test 2016 - Percentile of 99.7

• Winner - Blind Coding Championship (IGNITE 2016, K L University)

• Featured Wikimedian of the Month (June 2013) - awarded for exceptional contributions to Wikipedia and its sister projects since 2011.

• Editor of the Week (29 Oct 2016 to 5 Nov 2016) - awarded for exceptional contributions to the English Wikipedia article creation and curation.

• International Rank 573 - 2nd International English Olympiad (IEO)

• National Finalist - English Language Aptitude Test (ELAT) 2015

• Scholarship Recipient - WikiConference India 2016

• Scholarship Recipient - MediaWiki Train the Trainer(MWTTT) 2017

Certifications

• The Internet of Things using Arduino and Raspberry Pi​ - Campusify Technologies, Hyderabad - since October 2016.

• ​Introduction to Big Data Analytics using Hadoop​ - Bridge Gaap Technologies- since October 2015.​

• Introduction to Java Programming  - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUSTx) via edX  - since December 2015

• Web Development using HTML,CSS and PHP  - Felicity 2016, IIIT Hyderabad 

• Introduction to Data Science using Python  - TechFest 2016-17, IIT Bombay

Affiliations

• ​Google Developer Group (GDG) Vijayawada ​- since October 2015

• ​Wikimedia India ​- since December 2015

• ​KLU Open Source Group​ - since October 2016​

Additional Coursework

• Web Development (via Codecademy)

• Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School (IEEEx via edX)

• Writing READMEs (Udacity)

• How to Use Git and GitHub (Udacity)

• Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects (UC San Deigo via Coursera)

• IPython and Jupyter Notebook (Udacity)

• Communication Skills for Bridging Divides (CatalystX via edX)

• Introduction to Python for Data Science (Microsoft via edX)

• Inclusive Leadership Training: Leading With Effective Communication (CatalystX via edX)

• Build your web projects with REST API (IBM via OpenClassrooms)

• Innovation: The World's Greatest (University of Leeds via FutureLearn)

Volunteer Activities

Samyak 2017, K L University
CSE Department Co-cordinator

• Planned and conducted various technical and non-technical events at Samyak 2017, the annual techno-management fest of K L University

Samyak 2016, K L University
Organizer, Poster Presentation

• Organized the Poster Presentation event of CSE department at Samyak 2016, the annual techno-management fest of K L University.

Ignite 2016, K L University
Drafting Coordinator

• Responsible for all the drafting work of Ignite 2016, the departmental fest of CSE , K L University.

Talks and Tutorials given

• Linux System Administration (Swecha Open Source Training)

• Git and GitHub (Swecha Open Source Training)

• Introduction to MediaWiki and Wikipedia (K L University Open Source group)

• Introduction to Python (K L University Open Source group)

• Introduction to MediaWiki and Wikipedia (Swecha Open Source Training)

• Installing and configuring the LAMP stack (Center for Internet & Society - Bengaluru)