Saravanan Ganesh srrvnn.me
Hello!
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I explore the web, and build some of it.
Education
University of Southern California
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science - May 2014
USC Information Sciences Institute
Directed Research, Machine Learning - May 2013
Amrita School of Engineering
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech), Computer Science - May 2012
Skills
Languages
– JavaScript (***) – Java (**) – HTML5 (***) – CSS (***) – C++ (*) – Python (*)
Frameworks
– AngularJS (***) – React (*) – Node.js (**) – Spring (**) – Rails (*) – Git (***) – Jasmine (**)
Expertise
– Advanced (***) – Intermediate (**) – Beginner (*)
Interests
– User Experience — Front End Latency — Developer Tooling — Test Automation
Experience
Software Engineer Full Stack at Ensighten
Summer 2014 - Current
- Developed user facing components and simple workflows for technically complex mobile analytics setups.
- Contributed, and owned the client side code repository mainly written in JS, HTML, CSS and AngularJS.
- Championed unit / e2e / CSS testing, linting, Git flow, code reviews and more best practices across the company.
- Contributed, and owned the client side code repository mainly written in JS, HTML, CSS and AngularJS.
- Championed unit / e2e / CSS testing, linting, Git flow, code reviews and more best practices across the company.
User Experience Intern at Ontopic
Spring 2014
- Enhanced the alpha version of the product to be responsive, touch and keyboard friendly.
- Built a simple crawler that uses Twitter API and seed profiles to build a tweets data dump for analysis.
- Built a simple crawler that uses Twitter API and seed profiles to build a tweets data dump for analysis.
Summer Intern at Walmart Information Systems Division
Summer 2013
- Reported risks and drove decisions to deploy public mobile apps, on the internal app store for BYOD devices.
Projects
Natural Language to JavaScript Regex at Ensighten’s Internal Hackathon (awarded Best Hack)
- Built a client-side app in 3 days that suggests and converts natural language into JS regex.
- Used a Context Free Grammar, Deterministic Finite Automata and the Shunting Yard Algorithm.
- Awarded the best hack prize among 7 other hacks at Xsighten 1.1 (Ensighten’s Internal Hack fest)
- Used a Context Free Grammar, Deterministic Finite Automata and the Shunting Yard Algorithm.
- Awarded the best hack prize among 7 other hacks at Xsighten 1.1 (Ensighten’s Internal Hack fest)
Dev Tools Dependent-Element Detector at USC Web Analysis Course
- Built a firebug extension that crawls the DOM to detect elements positionally dependent on a seed element.
- Aided pixel perfect web design by allowing tweaking of CSS box model attributes of dependent elements.
- Aided pixel perfect web design by allowing tweaking of CSS box model attributes of dependent elements.
Color Segmentation using a Multi-Layer Decision Tree Classification for Sophisticated Color Values
- Developed an image processing research system that cycles WEKA machine learning algorithms for experimentation.
- Reduced time to experiment with supporting modules for image disintegration, rebuilding, and reporting.
- Reduced time to experiment with supporting modules for image disintegration, rebuilding, and reporting.
Client Side HTML5 Jukebox at Google CodeforIndia Hackathon (awarded Most Usable Hack)
- Built a jukebox in 20 hours using HTML5 Web Audio API and the SoundCloud API that plays and saves music.
- Enhanced user engagement with archival Indian classic music with real time interlay of western beats.
- Awarded most usable prize among 50 other hacks.
- Enhanced user engagement with archival Indian classic music with real time interlay of western beats.
- Awarded most usable prize among 50 other hacks.
Technology Lead at USC Association of Indian Students Club
- Led, and deployed the redesign of the website at USC, resolving several operational bottlenecks.
- Built a matching algorithm that optimized host matching duration from several minutes to a few seconds.
- Built a matching algorithm that optimized host matching duration from several minutes to a few seconds.
Crowd Sourced Manifesto Tracker at Stanford Code for Good Initiative
- Developed a Facebook API based admin-volunteer-public login system, and polished the UX.
- Deployed and maintained the project on Heroku and AWS for the Delhi Government + Stanford initiative.
- Deployed and maintained the project on Heroku and AWS for the Delhi Government + Stanford initiative.
Causes
Open Source
- Participated in HacktoberFest 2015, and contributed JS code and documentation to four open source projects.
- Made bug fixes and enhancements occasionally on Front End tooling projects via Github.
- Made bug fixes and enhancements occasionally on Front End tooling projects via Github.
Code for Good
- Maintained a project out of Stanford's CS90SI (CS + Social Good) in collaboration with the Government of Delhi, India.
Technical Leadership
- Introduced membership cards with a compatible check-in Android app, and other enhancements to ease operations.
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