RIZWAN DUDEKULA
Software Engineer
Bengaluru,KA
Summary
Passionate software engineer having 7 years of experience with deep understanding of technology with great interest on Algorithms, Machine learning, Programming languages and Systems Design. Experienced in programming; designing, developing, testing, debugging and maintaining the code. Quick learner in mastering new technologies; successful working in both team and self directed settings.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior Technical Lead
EY
Bangalore, Karnataka
12.2020 - Current
- Architected technical design of Agent Assistant solution for a bank. Realtime assistant to help customer agents by fetching relevant documents. Tech Components: Angular 8, Node.js, Postgres, Google DailogFlow, RabbitMQ, Websockets.
- MLOps using Azure Databricks and DevOps pipeline.
DBA: Software Engineer
IBM India Software Labs
Bangalore, Karnataka
10.2019 - 12.2020
- Implemented highly customizable custom key value pair extraction from PDF documents using heuristic algorithms in Python
- AI based lead identification using deep learning and knowledge graphs - Mentored and closely worked with 4 extreme blue interns
- Implemented various API connectors for WDG Automation with it's proprietary language
- Got exposed to Openshift container platform and installed various ICP4A products on it.
Cognitive Engineer
IBM India Software Labs
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2015 - 09.2019
- IBM Watson Document Conversion Service: Extracting useful information from PDF documents and converting them to normalized HTML.
- App to notify users about the Action Required e-mails from natural language text using IBM Watson, NL Classifier service and Content Analytics Studio.
- UI development in Angular 4 for Caterpillar, with Observer and Publish Subscribe design patterns.
- Full stack development for asset IBM Watson Business Solutions (WBS) bot framework. (Angular 8, Node.js, Docker, Helm Charts, IBM Cloud Private)
- Improved HLB (banking application) service layer performance and reduced application response time from 11sec to 3-4 sec using java multi-threading.
- Built cognitive applications for various customers using IBM Watson. Used various technologies (Node.js, Python and Java for service orchestration, IBM Watson Assistant, Discovery, Visual Recognition, Speech to text, Natural language understanding, IBM SPSS, Watson Machine Learning, IBM App Connect etc.,)
Extreme Blue Intern
IBM India Software Labs
Pune, Maharashtra
05.2014 - 07.2014
Extreme IO (FLASH & 40GB) over iSCSI interconnect:
The assignment aims to provide a Proof of Concept (PoC) that iSCSI can achieve the desired latency and CPU utilization goals when using the iSER model
Member Technical
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
Hyderabad, Telangana
06.2012 - 06.2013
- People@work provides all the flexibility and functionality to manage even the most complex HR needs like job management, benefits planning etc. Role: Resolving the defects and debugging the classic ASP, Javascript code.
- WFN (WorkForce Now) is a complete suite of payroll applications which covers HR, Time-Tracking, Core Payroll, Benefits, and Tax functionalities. Role: Implementing business logic in C# and front-end development with JavaScript and Dojo library
Education
Master of Technology - Computer Science
IIT Roorkee
Roorkee 07.2013 - 04.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
VR Siddhartha Engineering College
Vijayawada 09.2008 - 04.2012
Skills
Nodejs, Python, Angular 8
Java, C
Postgres, MySql, Neo4J, Cloudant, Mongo DB, Redis, IBM Cloud Object Storage
Message Queue, API Gateway, Push technology, Web Sockets, Event driven architecture
Machine Learning, NLP, MLOps
Cloud & DevOps (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm Charts)
Technical Contributions
- Open source contributor for International Society of Service Innovation Professionals, ISSIP. An initiative to benchmark cognitive APIs from different AI companies.
- Contributor to IBM AoT (Academy of Technology) CARE app.
- Asia Watson Enablement Program - hands-on support & co-lead on Watson Studio and IBM SPSS.
- Audio Search Expressions - patented an idea and mentored a PoC, as part of IBM Meraki program.
Accomplishments
- Won IBM Lab Services award
- Won IBM Team Excellence Award
- Reached IBM invention Plateau - 1
- Attained Watson Developer V3 certification
- Certificate of Recognition for Contributions made towards Students and Academia in India
- Finalist in the hackathon at the Machine Learning and Data Science Conference held by Microsoft IBM recognized Mentor.
- Mentored IBM ExtremeBlue interns-2020, awarded runner up in audience poll.
Timeline
Senior Technical Lead
EY
12.2020 - Current
DBA: Software Engineer
IBM India Software Labs
10.2019 - 12.2020
Cognitive Engineer
IBM India Software Labs
07.2015 - 09.2019
Extreme Blue Intern
IBM India Software Labs
05.2014 - 07.2014
Master of Technology - Computer Science
IIT Roorkee
07.2013 - 04.2015
Member Technical
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
06.2012 - 06.2013
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science
VR Siddhartha Engineering College
09.2008 - 04.2012