Akanksha Tyagi

akankshatyagi.com | github.com/akankshaty
+1 213 275 8251 | akankshatyagi18@gmail.com | www.linkedin.com/in/akanksha-tyagi-900b16a3

EDUCATION
Master of Science in Computer Science, University of Southern California, CA December 2018
Coursework: Web Technologies, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Analysis of Algorithms, Operating Systems GPA: 3.60
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, University of Pune, India May 2014

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages and Frameworks: Python, SQL, Java, C++
Operating System: Mac OS X, Windows XP and higher, Linux (Ubuntu 14.04, CentOS 6.7)
Libraries and Tools: IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Hive, Aerospike, Airflow, Git, Jenkins

WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer, Wayfair LLC, Boston, MA February 2019 – Present
• Building a Java application which processes and uploads data in both batch and real-time to Aerospike
• Created critical data pipelines delivering customer behavior data for product recommendations and scheduled
them to run daily using Airflow
• Maintaining a scalable Python application which provides holistic customer profiles
Graduate Technical Intern, Intel Corporation, Folsom, CA October 2018 – December 2018
• Designed and developed an application in C++ to benchmark and compare performance of external Deep Neural
Network libraries on different CPU Architectures
• Created an application in C# for detection of intruders using Windows Machine Learning API
Software Engineer Intern, GoLinks, CA June 2018 – August 2018
• Developed data pipelines to report the key performance indicators for GoLinks such as usage of shortened URLs,
user location distribution
• Implemented a security feature to inform users in event of sign-in from a new device
Decision Scientist, Mu Sigma Business Solutions, India September 2014 – September 2016
• Built a personalized marketing model using Python to guide content personalization among millennials
• Designed Support Vector Machine classifier that identified 150,000 millennials based on their social media posts
• Optimized the performance of model by 75% by developing Map Reduce jobs in Python

PROJECTS
Directed Research Web Portal
• Built a web portal to allow communication among Directed Research Coordinators, Clients and Students for directed
research course
Multi-View Image Generation
• Generated synthetic 2D images of an object in a target viewpoint from single input image using deep learning models
Image Classification
• Implemented CNN model using Python, TensorFlow to classify test images present in CIFAR-10 Dataset
• Achieved accuracy of 70% on test dataset with the help of Batch Normalization and SoftMax Cross Entropy loss
Weenix Operating System
• Worked in a team of 4 to implement processes and threads along with synchronization primitives for Weenix in C
• Implemented Virtual File System and Virtual Memory System for Weenix to manage virtual address space, allow
user-level interaction and service system calls