Sanjay Thimmarayappa

Programmer. Developer. Computer Science Enthusiast.

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Computer Science

Master of Science, University of Southern California

Los Angeles

Information Science & Engineering

Bachelor of Engineering, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology

Bangalore

About Me

Hello! My name is Sanjay Thimmarayappa. I am a student at the University of Southern California hailing from the beautiful city of Bangalore, India. I am pursuing my Masters in Computer Science with an intention of working in the Software industry upon graduation in May 2017. The Computer Science program at USC has been consistently ranked as one of the top programs in USA. USC has offered me an incredible opportunity to learn from many seasoned industry professionals and given me a chance to work with real world tools in simulated settings. I have always had a passion for computers and now, with my strong background in programming, academic expertise and an unquenchable thirst to learn new things everyday, I am excited to start my career in the Software industry.

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Skills

Programming Languages

C/C++
Java
Python
Javascript
PHP
HTML/CSS
SQL

Other Technologies

Bootstrap
Git
Perforce
Vagrant
XAMPP
Visual Studio
Android Studio

Other Technologies

Node JS
React
Solr
MongoDB
Mininet/Ryu
AWS
Azure

ACADEMICS

COURSES TAKEN UP

University of Southern California

MASTERS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

Analysis of Algorithms (CSCI 570)
Web Technologies (CSCI 571)
Database Systems (CSCI 585)
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (CSCI 562)
Database Systems Interoperability (CSCI 586)
Information Retreival and Web Search Engines (CSCI 572)

M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology

Bachelor's in Information Science & Engineering

Data Structures and Algorithms
Object Oriented Programming
Database Management Systems
Computer Networks
Internet Programming
Advanced Programming with Java

Work Experience

Programming Intern, Activision Publishing (Summer 2016)

I have had the amazing opportunity to work on the massively popular Call of Duty franchise as a Programming Intern at Activision. During my time here, I helped Central Tech Studios create a new framework that helps studios deploy Call of Duty Online Multiplayer game instances onto servers. This project has the ability to handle a large number of server machines which host millions of CoD players online simultaneously.

Worked extensively on building API calls to help studios deploy and monitor game builds using web a framework.
Worked on scalable scripts to get real time machine stats and player info.
Developed scripts to analyze ping times of players to AWS servers whose results aided in deciding the number of servers to be bought in each region for hosting Call of Duty Online Multiplayer games.

Python3 // jQuery // AJAX // HTML // Perforce // Bootstrap // Datatables // Highcharts // CherryPy // Node.js

Projects

Web Technologies

Weather Forecast Website

Designed and developed a responsive website featuring forecast search API results, using AJAX, JSON & XML technologies with a combination of HTML, CSS, DOM, PHP and JSON. Provided an interface built upon Bootstrap and jQuery UI to perform weather forecast search and post details to Facebook. The responsive website was hosted on AWS.

Web Search Engine

Designed and developed a web search engine by crawline the web using crawler4j. Data collected by the crawler is indexed using Solr to which additional features like spell check, auto completion and page rank scoring were added. All the additional features have been implemented using custom dictionaries built specifically for the downloaded data set to improve the precision and recall of the seach results.

Weather Forecast Android App

Developed an Android app to provide weather forecast on an hourly, daily and weekly basis based on the location entered using the forecast.io API. This project uses an Amazon EC2 instance as a remote server to which an app built using Android Studio, Android App development and Facebook SDK for Android communicates using AJAX requests.

Java // Javascript // jQuery // PHP // AJAX // HTML // CSS // Android Studio // Bootstrap // Facebook SDK // JSON // XML // AWS // Brackets

Artificial Intelligence

Game AI

Designed a game agent, on python platform, that applies the concepts of greedy-best first search, minimax algorithm and alpha beta pruning to come up with the best possible move for a player.

Inference Engine

Developed an inference engine to determine if a query can be inferred by the given knowledge base consisting a set of logic statements. Applied the backward chaining algorithm to achieve this.

Exact Inference on Bayesian Networks

Programmed to generate a Bayesian network with several decision nodes and a utility based node on the user input. The program carries out two different tasks:

Use variable elimination to calculate probabilities(marginal, conditional, joint).

Calculate the expected utility/maximum expected utility.

Python // PyCharm

Database Systems

Wildlife Monitor

Developed a Java based GUI to monitor wildlife animals on an Oracle database. It represents the wildlife as appropriate Spatial Points and has the added functionality of selecting the elements by region.

Data Story

Q&A User Group Analyzer, MSRIT (January 2015 to April 2015): As a part of my final year Undergrad project, I worked on Creating a recommendation system for a 100GB+ data dump that runs efficiently on commodity hardware. I set up a Hadoop cluster; implemented Hive and Mahout Architecture to process and analyze a huge data dump downloaded from the Stack Exchange community.

OracleDB // SQL // Java Swings // HDFS // Hive // Mahout

Miscellaneous

ChatRoom Node.js

A Chat Room built upon the Node.js framework. Implements Express, Jade, Socket.io to achieve this, multiple users from any location can join this chat room and communicate with each other. When a user connects, the last 10 messages in the chat room are displayed. All the chats are stored on the MogoDB cloud infrastructure and the chat room itself is hosted on the Microsoft Azure Web Services. Implemented on Javascript, Bootstrap, Node JS, Express, Jade, Socket.io, MongoDb and Microsoft Azure. This application was built using Visual Studio 2015.

GitHub Most Popular

This React app runs on a NodeJS server. It lists out the most popular projects on GitHub based on a topic. It has multiple components responsible for events like form submission, Ajax calls, display etc.

Live Demo
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~thimmara/github_popular.html

Socket Programming

This project simulates a system similar to Dijkstra to build a map of the network topology. The client and servers communicate with each other to get the neighbor information from each other and combine it all build the entire map of the network. The servers communicate with client using TCP sockets. The client communicates with the servers using UDP sockets.

Node.js // Socket.io // MongoDB // Azure Web Services // Visual Studio // C // C++ // Python // React // jQuery // Javascript // HTML // Bootstrap

Interests and Hobbies

Gaming

Soccer

Reading

Music

Comic Strips

Expecto Patronum

Mischief Managed

A proud Potterhead!

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

- Albus Dumbledore

One ring to rule them all.

Lord of the Rings

Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul,

Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul.

"Not all those who wander are lost."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

Call of Duty

A huge fan of the CoD series.

"FPS games for the win."

- Sanjay

Contact Info

1119 West 29th Street, Apt #11,
Los Angeles, California 90007.

+1 (213)326-7898

thimmara@usc.edu
sanjay.thimmarayappa@gmail.com