Viren Velacheri | Software Engineer

Hi, I'm Viren Velacheri.

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Self-driven, quick starter, passionate programmer with a curious mind who enjoys solving complex and challenging real-world problems.

About

I am a recent graduate from the University of Texas at Austin (hook'em) and just started working at Cvent, one of the leading event management companies in the world. I have experience in many programming languages and tools/technologies. My interests include, but aren't limited to, data science, machine learning, and fullstack web development. I am always striving to solve real-world problems and make a difference in the world around me. Outside of coding, my other hobbies/interests include playing sports (soccer, basketball, swimming, tennis, football), reading, coding, cooking, traveling, and hanging out with friends/family. I am also a part-time model/actor represented by Entourage Model and Talent Agency (https://www.entourageagency.com/models-talent/viren-velacheri/)

Languages: Python, Java, JavaScript, SQL, C, C++, HTML/CSS, Bash, MATLAB, R
Databases: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
Tools & Technologies: Linux, Git, Heroku, Bootstrap, React JS, Django, Node.js, Express, jQuery, AWS, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, Spark, Hadoop, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Docker, JIRA, Embedded Arduino Programming, SOX, Audacity, SolidWorks

Always looking for opportunities that provide professional development, interesting experiences, and personal growth.

Experience

Cvent

Software Engineer

Team: MRFy’s Law
Project: Work on resolving bugs, features, and stories related to the meeting request side of things for Cvent, one of the world’s leading events, meetings, and hospitality technology provider companies.
Tools: Spring Boot, Postman, Mockito, Selenium, Karate, Datadog

August 2022 - Present | Austin, TX, USA

Cvent

Software Engineering Intern

Team: MRFy’s Law
Project: Created a few REST API endpoints, SQL queries, and a react app related to a new, upcoming meeting request form service for one of the biggest companies in the event management industry. Endpoints involved heavy unit and integration testing.
Tools: Spring Boot, Postman, Mockito, Karate

June 2021 - August 2021 | Austin, TX, USA

UT Austin

Software Engineer Intern

Team: Department of Psychology
Project: Part of a 10-person team of professors and students tasked to develop Protect Texas: UT’s comprehensive technological tool to combat the spread of coronavirus in its community. Worked on COVID-19 tracking mobile phone app (called Protect Texas Together) for our school.
Tools: React-Native, Django, Fastlane, Bitrise

June 2020 - Dec 2020 | Austin, TX, USA

iHeartMedia

Software Developer Intern

Team: Digital Audio Management
Project: Built a cloud based internal reporting system in Java’s Spring framework with 3 other interns. Used and implemented REST APIs. Worked with AWS Simple Queue Service, Microservices, and a SQL database. Implemented a user friendly interface for the S3 bucket that holds the generated reports. Overall system deployed on AWS through a Jenkins pipeline.
Tools: Spring Boot, Amazon SQS, Amazon S3, Jenkins

June 2019 - August 2019 | Austin, TX, USA

Projects

                
Named Entity Recognizer
                  A model that identifies entities in Twitter tweets
                
AccomplishmentsFinal project for Natural Language Processing.
Used a state-of-the-art BERT Language Model transformer and a linear layer to take in final hidden state of
transformer before applying softmax to get probability distributions for each token.

Pitch Prediction Data Science Project
                  A project done to determine best model for predicting baseball pitches
                
AccomplishmentsFinal project for Data Mining.
Did data cleaning, data exploration, and feature engineering before trying out various machine learning models
including, but not limited to, Decision Trees, Naive Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbor, etc before eventually settling
down on Support Vector Machine model.

SuperTuxKart AI
                  Created an AI agent that wins 2v2 ice hockey games
                
AccomplishmentsFinal project for Neural Networks.
Implemented a neural network with convolution, batch normalization, and relu layers to predict
heatmap used in finding location of puck in game.

Library Volunteer Management WebApp
                  A webapp that makes volunteer management easier for librarians and volunteers
                
AccomplishmentsResponsive (Smartphone enabled) app for users to signup, view, and delete schedules. Administrator control for
volunteer check-in and automatic report generation. Designed for local libraries in Austin.
Built using Bootstrap, jQuery, Node.js, and MongoDB. Hosted on Amazon cloud via Heroku Platform.

Eye Tests Android App
                  An android app that uses image patterns for eye test
                
AccomplishmentsAndroid smartphone Eye Test App using an external Ultrasonic sensor.
Part of UT Research Methods Program for High schoolers under Dr. Ruth Shear.

Dog Adoption WebApp
                  A webapp for local animal shelter.
                
AccomplishmentsResponsive Webapp with intelligent search and notification capabilities.
Built using Bootstrap, jQuery, Node.js, and MongoDB. Hosted on Amazon cloud via Heroku Platform.

Robot controlled by Phone
                  Mindstorm robot controlled by my Android smartphone
                
AccomplishmentsUses the magnetic orientation sensor in a smartphone to steer the robot in a straight line.
 Learnt how to interface an external motor controller to an Android Smartphone via Bluetooth