Rajat Mhetre

Hi,

About

Originally a computer science engineer and self-taught programmer.

I was fortunate to discover my passion and talent for programming at a young age. I'm exploring and using python and javascript to solve real life problems since last 5-6 years. Parallely, I have been doing Android Development from last 3 years.

Former Android Developer with 3+ years hands on experience.

▪ I'm interested in Machine Learning and Neural Networks.
▪ Actively learning their concepts by doing small personal projects.

Technical Skills

▪ Languages : *Python , *JavaScript, *Java, C++, Go

▪ Frameworks / Libraries : Django, *Flask, *Express JS, Meteor, jQuery, *node JS, AngularJs

▪ Other : git/Github

* denotes advanced skill level

Project Experience

  • Backpacker – Travel Guide Android App - 2016

    ▪ Backpacker is an android app developed as capstone project for android developer nano degree program.

    ▪ Google Places API is used to fetch information about places nearer to user’s desired location(i.e city).

    ▪ Realm is used as local db to store data which is accessed from network.

    ▪ Libraries like eventbus, picasso, gson is used for communication between app components, image caching and serialising & deserialising JSON respectively.

    Source on GitHub

  • Smapps – Find Similar Android Apps - 2016

    ▪ Flask based Web application hosted on heroku with MongoDB and redis.

    ▪ Developed a backend system which groups similar android apps by their functionality with the help of clustering algorithms.

    ▪ User can view apps similar to his/her favourite apps.

    ▪ Custom Flask based API is designed to connect backend system with Web application.

  • Quartz - Web Crawler & Scraper - 2015

    ▪ Crawls shopping portals like amazon, flipkart to find available products & scraps detail about the product.

    ▪ Python based crawler & scraper with MongoDB as database hosted on heroku.

  • Foodle – Real Time Restaurant Table Reservation Service - 2015

    ▪ Developed with Meteor Framework and hosted on Meteor’s own hosting platform.

    ▪ Shows availability of table in restaurant along with restaurant details.

  • Orbit – Contact Sync Android App - 2014

    ▪ Syncs user’s contact details with all the contacts present in its address book.

    ▪ Developed an API service in PHP with MySQL as database which syncs contacts in regular intervals.

    ▪ Developed an android app as UI with SQLite as local database.

Work Experience

  • Boxx – Python Developer

    Sep 2016 - Present

    ▪ Developing personalised recommendation system to recommend best products to buy/ places to visit or dishes to taste.

    ▪ Additionally, developing web application for clients’ using Django, along with MySQL and MongoDb as database.

    ▪ Developing efficient and scalable system to handle processing of large files.

  • Zoyo – Software Engineer Intern

    Jul 2016 - Sep 2016

    ▪ Developing backend engine along with private API for application.

    ▪ Using node.js along with express.js to create API with MongoDb as database.

    ▪ Developing Android App along with few third party libraries for specific tasks.

  • Biosnap – Founder & Developer

    Sep 2012 - Nov 2014

    ▪ Developed a web application with PHP with MySQL as database hosted on private hosting.

    ▪ Got around 3000 registered users along with more than half a million unique visitors in time period of 2 years.

  • Indiabeat – Co-Founder & CTO

    Nov 2013 - Jul 2014

    ▪ Developed news portal, user story panel where registered users can publish their articles, discussion section and admin panel for editors.

    ▪ Entire system developed with PHP with MySQL as database.

Education

Ramdeobaba College of Engineering & Management – Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science & Engineering : 2012 - 2016

Udacity – Android Developer Nanodegree : June 2015 - July 2016

Certifications
▪ 6.00.1x, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python, MITx - January 2014
▪ edX Honor Code Certificate for Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark - July 2015
▪ edX Honor Code Certificate for Scalable Machine Learning - August 2015

Interests

Travelling
▪ Keen to experience different cultures and environments.

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