Sunil G C
Fargo,ND
Summary
Multi-skilled Graduate Researcher and software engineer takes findings and transforms into creative yet accurate insights. Expertise in interpreting data to draw meaningful conclusions while retaining story-telling power. Organizes project activities using optimizing techniques.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Graduate Research Assistant
Agriculture, Biosystem Engineering, NDSU
05.2019 - 05.2023
- Successfully spearheaded development and integration of a computer vision and artificial intelligence algorithms pipeline project for a chemical robotic weed control platform
- Achieved exceptional accuracy rates for weed recognition by building and optimizing convolutional neural network models using state-of-the-art architectures, including
- VGG16, ResNet50, Xception, DenseNet, MobileNetV3, EfficientNet, ConvNeXt, and
- YOLO-v4
- Streamlined meat processing industry by developing an Android and IOS app using
- React Native and Python to identify and classify beef cuts
- Enabled more efficient and precise detection of invasive plants by leveraging machine learning techniques and engineering Python scripts and Java code for weed identification
- Simplified image acquisition process and reduced time and effort required for data collection by programming bash script for automatic digital camera control
- Expanded scope and potential of agricultural research by collaborating with Microsoft employees, NDSU IT personnel, and professors to successfully deploy Microsoft Farm
- Beat Research Kit at NDSU
- Provided valuable insights into complex interactions between crops and environment by conducting extensive field experiments using ground robotics and collecting data using multi-spectral, color, and hyper-spectral sensors
- Achieved exceptional results by collaborating with post-doctoral associate to build variable rate sprayer on UAV, taking full responsibility for all coding responsibilities
Software Engineer
Deerwalk Inc
01.2017 - 04.2019
- Developed core features for company's main product, "Plan Analytics," using big data technologies such as Cascading, Hadoop, and Elasticsearch, achieving exceptional performance and scalability
- Processed large volumes of data on Amazon EMR and Amazon EC2 clusters and developed database queries on MySQL, Redshift, and Elasticsearch databases, ensuring data accuracy and reliability
- Built builder and listener for creating Elasticsearch queries in Grail's framework using
- Java, streamlining search process and improving query efficiency
- Researched AWS Application Load Balancer Implementation as a replacement for Elastic
- Load Balancer, resulting in significant cost savings and improved performance
- Collaborated with Chief Technology Officer, Business Analyst, Front-end team, QA team, and Data team to successfully resolve existing product issue, ensuring customer satisfaction and retention
- Created Python script to parallelize job submissions on Hadoop, optimizing resource utilization on Amazon Cluster and reducing costs by 2%, demonstrating strong cost management skills
- Presented on Elasticsearch and Cascading in workshops and presentations, effectively sharing knowledge and insights with colleagues and stakeholders
- Participated in team to research migration of module from Cascading to Spark (using Scala), demonstrating willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies
- Engaged in agile software development cycle with quality assurance team, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality software products.
Associate Software Engineer
Deerwalk Inc
12.2015 - 12.2017
- Developed Java and Cascading code to establish streamlined data pipeline and processing system under Hadoop ecosystem, improving data processing efficiency and reducing processing time
- Conducted thorough unit testing to ensure code's functionality and quality, resulting in fewer bugs and issues in final product
- Debugged code to fix any errors and improve performance, ensuring that system runs smoothly and efficiently
- Processed large volumes of data on EC2 instances using Hadoop jobs to efficiently manage large datasets, ensuring data accuracy and reliability
- Participated in upgrading Elasticsearch from version 1.4 to 2.4, ensuring that system is up-to-date and compatible with latest technologies.
Education
Ph.D - Agriculture Engineering
North Dakota State University Fargo
Fargo, ND05.2023
Bachelor’s - engineering - Electronics and Communication
Tribhuvan University, IOE
Lalitpur Nepal11.2015
Skills
- Fast Learner
- Data Modeling
- Manuscript Writing
- Effective Communication
- Statistical Analytics
- Field Research
- Database Management Systems
- Data Cleaning
- Independent Research
- Algorithm Implementation
- Communication Skills
- Microsoft Office
- AWS
- Hadoop
- Java
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Python
- C
- Ardunio
- NVIDIA Jetson
- Elasticsearch
- MySql
- Scala
- Tensorflow
- Pytorch
- Git
- Spark
- Data Science
- Linux
- Bash Scripting
- Pandas
- Data Logger
- Raspberry Pi
- Docker & container
- C
Languages
English
Full Professional
Timeline
Graduate Research Assistant
Agriculture, Biosystem Engineering, NDSU
05.2019 - 05.2023
Software Engineer
Deerwalk Inc
01.2017 - 04.2019
Associate Software Engineer
Deerwalk Inc
12.2015 - 12.2017
Ph.D - Agriculture Engineering
North Dakota State University Fargo
Bachelor’s - engineering - Electronics and Communication
Tribhuvan University, IOE
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