Nishant Agarwal

Phone: (716) 770-9075

Email Id: nishantagarwal1990@gmail.com

LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishantagarwal1990

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

MS Computer Science

Related Coursework: Machine Learning, NLP, Advanced Algorithms

SBMJCE

BE Computer Science & Engineering

75%, First Class with Distinction

EXPERIENCE

TALLY SOLUTIONS PVT LTD

Research and Development

Senior Software Engineer

Salt Lake City, UT

2017

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

2012

Bangalore, India

April 2015 – June 2015

• Analyzed customer reported issues leading to effective solutions.

• Designed new algorithm for business computation of data that improved accuracy and performance of report.

• Gathered market feedback with the help of various departments and improvised solutions leading to an increase

in product stability.

Software Engineer

Nov 2013-March 2015

• Enabled further research on Cache Oblivious B-Trees for implementation of a new database by delivering

statistical results on the performance of querying index which was 10 times better than normal B+ Tree. The

findings and work was acknowledged by the Chairman Bharat Goenka.

• Reduced executable generation and code compilation time by 75% by building an in-house asynchronous multiprocess

cross platform build system, which in turn improved efficiency of software engineers.

• Improved accuracy of accounting and inventory reports by 40% for consolidated data.

• Provided new DDL commands that enabled application developers to resolve critical issues leading to higher

market acceptance of product.

Software Test Engineer

July 2012 – Oct 2013

• Improved the detection of data corruptions over a network by 25% with implementation of WANem for Wide

Area Network Testing.

• Improved the test case management by designing a simplified matrix for test case entry that made the work light

and easier.

PROJECTS

• QA System for Reading Comprehension Tests: Provides answers to questions by parsing the story and

returning the most probable answer phrase.

• OCR for Devanagari Script: Character recognition of Hindi language using various machine learning

algorithms and their comparisons on different feature extraction methods.

SKILLS & LANGUAGES

• Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Python, LaTeX, SQL, HTML, CSS, JS, PHP

• Operating System: Windows7, OSX Yosemite, Ubuntu

• Tools: SVN, Git, Microsoft Office, Visual Studio, XCode, lldb, Microsoft Office

• Databases: MySQL, SQL, Oracle

• Professional: Team player, Critical Thinker, Pursuit of Perfection, Decisive