Overview
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Cs Outreach Experience
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Akira Reddy

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience

Work History

IoT Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2024 - 03.2025
  • Engineered a document-parsing chatbot for an internal company project using NLP to extract and retrieve relevant content, improving internal query accuracy by 25%, and also reducing manual search time.
  • Developed and maintained backend components for the chatbot processing pipeline, ensuring scalability and efficient data retrieval from structured and unstructured data sources.
  • Supported project managers in tracking project progress and updating documentation.

Software Development Intern

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2022 - 08.2022
  • Collaborated on an e-commerce platform using Spring Boot, MySQL, and Bootstrap, gaining hands-on exposure to full-stack development and agile workflows.

Data Science Intern

Artha Data Solutions
05.2020 - 08.2021
  • Designed models in Talend's ETL tool to enforce data governance policies by taking raw data from AWS S3 buckets and storing transformed data in database instances using Amazon RDS.
  • Integrated Python scripts into Amurta’s Data Insight Platform to automate data transformation and enhance reporting capabilities for the ETL workflows
  • Performed data profiling and quality checks to assess data trustworthiness, enabling more accurate analytics outcomes.
  • Co-developed a Rasa NLU chatbot to allow customers to interact with the Data Insight Platform conversationally in order to replace manual processes.

Undergraduate Researcher

Purdue Urban Sustainability Modeling & Analysis Research Team (uSMART)
10.2019 - 03.2020
  • Applied Python-based NLP to parse scholarly articles on wind turbine life cycle assessments via the Crossref API, contributing automated literature analysis for a sustainability review paper.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
12.2023

Skills

  • Java
  • Python
  • Tableau
  • C
  • AWS
  • Talend ETL
  • SQL (MySQL)
  • HTML/CSS
  • R
  • NLP

Projects

  • Dashboard on Mass Killing Events in the US, Built an interactive Tableau dashboard visualizing mass killing events across the U.S., featuring a map with data points and narrative metrics.
  • Dewey 2.0, Developed a library book management system using Django (Python) for the backend, React for the frontend, and SQLite for the database. Created to enhance relational database skills.
  • Tap Card, Collaborated on a hackathon project to design an Android app for storing and sharing business card information via NFC technology.

Languages

Spanish
Full Professional
Hindi
Limited
Telugu
Limited

Cs Outreach Experience

  • Mentors for Aspiring Girls in Computing (MAGIC), August 2019 to March 2020, Taught students at Wea Ridge Middle School to solve logic puzzles, use Scratch, and code in Python. Taught Python as well as HTML/CSS to students involved in AP computer science at Jefferson High School in Lafayette, IN.
  • Teacher at StemShala Enrichment Center, June 2018 to August 2018, Taught Python to middle school students through basic coding exercises and elementary school students block-based programming and basic robotics concepts using Lego WeDo.

Timeline

IoT Specialist

Cognizant Technology Solutions
01.2024 - 03.2025

Software Development Intern

Cognizant Technology Solutions
07.2022 - 08.2022

Data Science Intern

Artha Data Solutions
05.2020 - 08.2021

Undergraduate Researcher

Purdue Urban Sustainability Modeling & Analysis Research Team (uSMART)
10.2019 - 03.2020

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Purdue University

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