A K S H AY S O N I

akshay.soni@live.com | (832)542-9736
www.akshaysoni.com | www.github.com/akssoni | www.linkedin.com/in/akssoni
OBJECTIVE
To seek an opportunity in Software Engineering to solve challenges with the best of my domain
knowledge and problem solving skills, and keep learning.
TECHNICAL SK ILLS
Programming Languages

Java, JavaScript, C++, PHP, C#, SQL, C

Web Technologies

AngularJS, node.js, JQuery, Dojo, HTML5, CSS3

Frameworks

Spring, Hibernate, Zend

Methodologies

Agile Scrum, SDLC, UML

Cloud Services

AWS (EC2, RDS, S3)

Databases

MySQL, NoSQL - MongoDB, Vertica, MSSQL, Oracle

Development Tools

Eclipse, IntelliJ, Phonegap, SVN, Maven, GitHub, BitBucket

Other tools

LaTeX, Weka, Vertabelo, Matlab, Unity

EXPER IENCE

UN I VE R S I TY O F H O U STO N , D E PA RT ME NT OF COMPUT E R S CIE N CE

RE S EA RCH / T E AC H I NG A S S I STAN T

Developed two web-based ecology projects for citizen scientists along with data processing tools.
Designed Algorithms for data sanitization and characterization of ecology properties.
Javascript implementation of Image Search Engine for Multiple domain using Googles custom APIs.
Designed an Algorithm for Iris Recognition consisting of loosely coupled modules.
Teaching Assistant for Data Structures, and Database Design. Created and graded programming
assignments and projects.

PE R SI ST EN T SY STE M LT D
S OF T WA RE E N G INE E R

H O U STO N, TX
2 0 1 3 - 2 01 5

PU N E , I N DIA
2011 - 2013

Actively participated in Agile Process of Yahoo! - Microsoft Search Alliance project.

Developed front-end for account and campaign migration to Bing platform for different markets.
Provided front-end Integration for Yahoo! - Microsoft platform using RESTful services.
Developed a web-based technical library for Cisco Enterprise Platform using Liferay Portal.
Performed web-interface integration with Cisco backend.
Successfully delivered a portable web-app, My Employment Info, to Cisco QUAD platform.
Tools & Technology - MVC, Spring, Java, Object Oriented Javascript, CSS/HTML, Jquery, Dojo,
Yahoo UI platform, Liferay Portal, Requirement Analysis - Gathering, Validation, and Documentation.

C EN T ER F O R D EV E LO P ME N T O F A DVAN CE D COMPUT IN G ( GOV. OF IN D IA)

PU N E , I N DIA

IN TE RN S O F T WA R E D EV E LO P E R

2010 - 2011

Designed an Algorithm for Optical Character Recognizer for Devanagari characters (Indian script)
Algorithm performs image preprocessing to remove perspective angle caused by mobile camera.
Successfully developed a portable implementation for different mobile operating systems.

MASTER S THE SIS

Title - Scaling Up and Exploring Marsh
Advisors - Dr. Marc Garbey, Dr. Victoria Hilford, Dr. Steven C Pennings, Dr. Nikolaos V Tsekos

Developed an Ecology project to involve citizen scientists for generating the research data.
For domain understanding, conducted various interviews and meetings with scientists.
Developed few tools for accumulation, parameterization, and validation of the generated data.
Designed a scalable, and extensible database schema.
To date, 750 citizen scientists are contributing to the project and over 50,000 images are in database.
Developed using Zend framework, MySQL, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML5/CSS3, Weka, and Vertabelo.
Dissertation - www.akshaysoni.com/#dissertation
OTHER DEVELOP MENT

S W IF TACCO U N T.CO M

SwiftAccount is a cloud-based bookkeeping product.

Keeps logs of various financial entities such as journal vouchers, sale/purchase, stocks, invoices.
Useful to generate financial reports, which can be exported into various formats.
Users can upload the documents on the limited cloud storage.
The application is developed using node.js, express, angularJS, MySQL, and AWS (EC2, RDS, S3).

M U ST TAG .CO M

This is a start-up project for product/service social platform, and online directory.
Users can rate, ask questions, and comment their experiences for the products in a social way.
Developed a prototypic responsive web application using Spring, Java, MySQL, and Jquery, HTML5.
Front-end code is available at - github.com/akssoni/product-social-engineering

PH A R OS

This game was developed for a new audience of younger women who do not ordinarily play games.
PHAROS reached top 28 teams (worldwide) for Microsoft Imagine Cup.
PHAROS video https://youtu.be/Ff3a6eOyR7I
EDUCATI ON
Master of Science (MS) with thesis
Computer Science

University of Houston, TX
Fall 2015

Bachelor of Engineering (BE)

Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Pune, India

Computer Science

Spring 2011