2632 Ellendale Place, Apt #118,
Los Angeles, CA | Tel. (213)-359-0512
Neha Mundada
mundada@usc.edu
http://www.linkedin.com/in/nehamundada
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~mundada
Education
University of Southern California
MS (Computer Science)
GPA: 3.75, May 2015
Courses: CS548-Information Integration on the Web, CS571-Web Technologies, CS570-Analysis of Algorithms, CS585-Database
Management Systems, CS561-Foundations of AI, CS572-Information Retrieval and Search Engines, CS599-Social Media Analysis
Pune Institute of Computer Technology
BE (Computer Engineering)
GPA: 3.51, August 2012
Technical Skills
Languages: Java, Javascript, C, PHP, SQL, SparQL, XQuery, XML, Shell Scripts
Familiar with: Groovy, C++
Databases: MySQL, Oracle, Neo4j, OpenRDF
Familiar with: MongoDB, SQLite
Web Technologies: HTML, CSS, Coffescript , jQuery, AngularJS, D3.js, JsMockito, Jasmine, Jade, Stylus, Twitter Bootstrap, YUI
Mobile Development: iOS development- Objective-C, Android development- jQueryMobile, PhoneGap
Libraries & Frameworks: JUnit, Maven, Apache Tomcat, Apache Tika, Apache OODT, Apche Lucene/Solr. Fluent with GIT
Employment and Professional Projects
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ISE Department, USC
Web Developer
August’13 - Current
Managing departmental posting using CMS and developing new features for the website.
Software Engineer Intern (Frontend)
Platform9 Systems, CA
June’14 – August’14
Platform9 – AngularJS, HTML5, CSS3, Jade, Coffee script, Twitter bootstrap
Worked in the core UI team on MVC based frontend architecture using AngularJS for the company product Platform9.
Software Engineer
Equal Experts, India
July’12 – June’13
Designed and developed web applications using Open source technologies, Test driven development and agile methodology.
Was a part of the technical team to design and develop the official company website, making it device agnostic and responsive.
Digital Wallet: iPhone application (Objective-C, CoreData, Mapkit, RestKit, Storyboards, MongoDB, Grails)
An application that enables customers to customize their digital wallet with various merchant cards and redeem promos of each
card online. Worked as a full stack engineer in entire life cycle of the product development. Published in App store as ‘Giftbak’.
Academic Projects – Masters
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Step Up (Java, Neo4j, Google Refine, Fril, Sparql, ArborJS, Twitter bootstrap)
Social network analysis for various western dance forms using graph database - Neo4j. Performed centrality analysis to draw
interesting inferences highlighting relationship between different dance forms based on dance moves as a major parameter.
Content Extraction and Search for DARPA jobs data (Java, Apache Tika, Apache Lucene, Apache Solr, Apache OODT)
Developed a workflow to crawl job posting files, perform data transformations, run deduplication algorithm like string similarity
metrics and index these processed files on SOLR. Performed analytics by aggregating data fields using SOLR functional queries.
DARPA Employment Data Visualization (Java, Javascrip, D3.js, HTML5, CSS3, Apache Solr, Apache Maven, Apache Tomcat)
Created charts and maps to visualize the employment dataset to analyze trends based on various spatio-temporal parameters
like location, time, jobtypes using D3.js. The data is preprocessed using Yahoo reverse geocoder API and indexed using SOLR.
Geospatial Objects (Oracle spatial objects, Java, Swings, SQL)
Simulation of finding the nearest fire hydrant in a fire zone using Oracle’s spatial objects. Using Java swings created a User
Interface to make the fire zone as polygons and buildings that intersected it.
Happiness Paradox on Twitter Social Network (Java, Javscript, JSON, StanfordNLP, MySql, Apache Lucene)
Analysis of happiness paradox-’your friends are happier than you’ on Twitter data by performing sentiment analysis of tweets.
Stock Search using Yahoo Finance & Facebook Mashup (Java, Javscript, AJAX, JSON, AWS, YUI lib, Facebook SDK)
A web and android Application that displays stock information and financial news for a company using Yahoo finance API.
Academic Project – Bachelors
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IP Acceleration (Kernel programming, C)
Implemented Software-based zero-copy OS-bypass method for Linux over Gigabit Ethernet. Proposed a solution to avoid
multiple copies that persist during data transfers, to reduce the CPU burden upto 5-10% and achieve good data transfer speed.
Publication: Published technical paper on ‘TCP/IP protocol acceleration’ in IEEE Xplore at the international conference (ICCCI)
Awards: Won 1st prize in ‘National level’ competition ‘Concepts’ and was selected amongst top 11 projects though out India