Rushabh Kapadia

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Part of Prof. Marco Papa's team as a Course Producer for CSCI-571: Web and Mobile Technologies. Main responsibilities include:

• Developing challenging and interesting coursework for students to implement scalable applications using Web development principles.
• Tutor students during Office hours to help them better understand concepts and develop websites.
• Develop responsive websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Python technologies as well as frameworks like Angular, React, Bootstrap and NodeJS.
• Maintain and deploy web applications using Google Cloud Platform, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure.
• Proctor online exams and project presentations for students during Finals week.

Technical Exposure: JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, Python, JQuery, Bootstrap, Angular, React, Android, Flask, Node.js, Expressjs, GCP, AWS

Software Developer Intern

Worked as a full-stack developer and solutions architect in the Digital Experience division, primarily contributing towards the Adobe Experience Platform eco-system. During my time, I delivered a cross-functional service for tracking entity usage patterns and interactions across different Adobe Experience Platform services with an SLA of response time under 1000 milliseconds. The service tracks registered entities for a period of 24 hours across different services using a distributed poling mechanism to collect and analyse entity behavior in near real-time accessible via REST endpoints and dashboard (Angular, Nodejs) The system has been designed to be highly scalable, concurrent and distributed to ensure availability and high performance.

Technical Exposure: Scala, Java, AKKA framework, Slick JDBC, Angular, Nodejs, Mockito, ScalaTest, Docker, AWS

Associate Software Engineer

Worked as a full-stack developer and solution architect at Morgan Stanley in the capacity of an on-site consultant. At Morgan Stanley, I was part of the High Impact Small Change (HISC) technology team, a specially designed team to meet steep deadlines and deliver huge functional benefits to business. During my tenure, I developed scalable end-to-end solutions and workflows for profit/loss calculations and trade reporting engines in the reporting infrastructure.

Technical Exposure: Java, Javascript, SQL, C#, Spring framework, Angular framework, React framework.

Technology Consultant

Worked primarily as a full-stack developer. Main contributions involve delivering a new scalable calculation and parallel execution engine for multi-day Profit & Loss reporting and introducing caching and XML dictionary generation and maintenance automation tools for reducing turn-around time in the reporting architecture. Played a crucial role in introducing functional use-cases, removing technical debt and optimizing performance across IT systems.

Technical Exposure: Scala, Java, Javascript, SQL, Python, Spring framework, Angular framework.

Technology Analyst Intern

Worked as part of the Systematic market-making group (SMG) division. Prime area of work as an intern involved analyzing the real-time trading business flows and technical architecture as a Business Analyst/Program manager understudy along with developing a user-interface module for supporting a new algorithmic trading strategy. Additionally, optimized cache utilization strategy through designing efficient data structures in the trading platform.

Technical Exposure: C#, C++, Python, WPF framework, .net framework.

University of Southern California

React News App

• Developed and deployed a news aggregation web application that allows users to read the latest news articles from Guardian and New York Times News sources across different topics like Business, Politics, Technology, Sports and so on.
• The application allows users to search for specific articles by using Bing Powered Autosuggestions, bookmark favorite articles, comment on articles/discussions and share articles on various social media platforms.

Android News App

• Developed and deployed a news tracking and aggregation android application that allows users to surf through an assortment of news articles from Guardian News source based on the current world trends.
• The application allows users to search for specific articles, bookmark favorite articles, track the current trends on the internet using line charts and share articles on social media platforms.

Fat2Fit Fitness Tracker

• Created a fitness and diet tracking web application that assigns 15-day plans to users based on questionnaires and trainer advice.
• The application has plan history, activity tracking and push notifications facilities for trainers to personalize routines for each user and send alerts to clients for daily milestones.

Routed – Dynamic Bus Scheduling and Bus Allocation

• Delivered a dynamic bus scheduling and allocation system in collaboration with the public transit service (BEST) operating in Mumbai, India, removing 8% inefficiencies in scheduling process leading to decreased monetary losses.
• Implemented the new pipeline for forecasting weekly bus schedules by leveraging ARIMAX, SARIMAX and LSTM RNNs methods to ensure maximal reuse of buses and minimal waiting time for passengers across more than 120 bus routes.

Torch-It Obstacle detector for Visually Impaired

• Devised a cost-effective obstacle sensing navigation device for visually impaired individuals to navigate in crowded areas.
• Worked on programming Arduino and Atmega16 microcontrollers for detecting ultrasonic and infrared waves for object detection and distance analysis as well as conducted AB testing across different organizations for blind individuals.

Malaria Infected Cells Classifier

• Developed a 7-layer Convolutional Neural Network for classifying human cell images as Malaria infected or not using 2D convolution, max pooling and flattening processes to down-sample images and extract pixel patterns.

Self-Balancing and Stair Climbing Robot - Rolly

• Implemented a self-balancing and stair climbing butler robot for offices to transfer documents, refreshments and equipment around the floor as well as across floors of the organization.