👋 Hi, I’m Prajwal Y Maredukonda

• 🏢 Co-founder of Yayin AI Lab and A Washed-up Nerd Store.
• 📫 You can find various ways to reach me on keybase.
• 📫 You can email me at hello<AT>prajwalyashasvi<DOT>in or prajwal<AT>awashedupnerd<DOT>in.
• 👨🏽‍💻 I design and develop applications mostly in Java, Python, and NodeJS.
• 🔰 I’m currently learning the Go language and PCB designing.
• 🎒 Graduated (MS in Computer Science) at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
• 👨🏽‍💻 Part-Time Assistant Professor, Coordinator for AICTE LITE and Google Cloud Education programs at Vardhaman College of Engineering.
• 💞️ I’m looking to collaborate on Hugo Themes or research work in Indic Languages.

Skills	Windows 11, WSL2 & VS Code (Preferred Environment)
Languages	Java, Python, HTML, JavaScript, C#, PHP, VB.Net, C, C++, CSS, Go
Databases	MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle, OrientDB, Postgres
Frameworks	Apache Wicket, Django, Gatsby, HUGO, Hibernate, Node, React, Spring, Struts, Thymeleaf
Tools	Eclipse, Git, IntelliJ, Jupyter, Maven, MySQL Workbench, Postman

Experience

AUG 2024 - * AS A PYTHON DEVELOPER AT BLUE OCEAN STRATEGIC PARTNERS.

Remote Role - Robotic Process Automation (RPA); Clients: Highgate, Cedar Hill Prep.

• Maintain the Python-based bot which automates tasks like Biweekly and End of Month (EoM) report generation for the Purchase Card Transactions in all Full-Service hotels managed by Highgate, creating and uploading EoM Journal Entries (JE) to an Oracle Financials general ledger.
• Developed an enhancement to the Python bot which replicates the existing Full-Service RPA tasks to Select Service hotels managed by Highgate.
• Maintain the Python-based RPA Bot which automates the enrollment, generating and dispatching the school fee invoices. It is integrated with Xero accounting software and the Gradelink Student Information System.

November 2020 - * as a Full Stack Developer & Assistant Professor at Vardhaman College of Engineering

Part-Time (from Aug 2024)

• Designed, Developed and Maintained various WordPress, Hugo, and Gatsby.js websites in the organization.
• Manage the Microsoft 365 environment & infrastructure of the organization.
• Taught undergraduate courses on the Basics of the Internet of Things, Cloud Computing and Virtualization, and Fundamentals of Cybersecurity.
• Program Coordinator for Google Cloud Career Advancement program and AICTE LITE Pupilfirst Web Development Minor Program.

Jun 2018 - * as a Co-Founder at Yayin AI Lab Pvt. Ltd.

Web Development, Microsoft Solutions Partner, PCB design and fabrication.

• Delivered a module for the Indian Oil Corp.’s Swadyamitra project using Spring Boot and Thymeleaf frameworks in April 2023.
• As a Microsoft Solutions Partner, we equip partners with the resources needed to build their AI & Cloud solutions.
• Designing two makers' projects which are currently in the prototyping stages.
• R & D for the web application to provide an AI-based personalized travel experience for travelers.
• Taught 300/400 level courses on Java, Python, and 100/200 level courses on Information Security.
• Collaborated with a psychology graduate to implement comprehensive lesson plans that accommodated a student with autism for one-on-one learning sessions.
• Pursued Masters in Information Systems Management at Trine University from Spring 2018 to Fall 2019.

Jan – May 2018 as a Java Developer at Dataserv Inc.

C2C Role - Client: Data Song, Nashua, NH, USA.

• Resolved bugs and defects in a Java application built with Spring Boot and React.js frameworks.
• Utilized Maps to store data in JSON format for API interactions.
• Developed a helper module for JSON conversion into a tree structure and element insertion.

2016 - 2017 as a Cyber Security Researcher at Koninklijke Philips N.V.

Backend Developer and Researcher for the CISO R&D Team at Philips Healthcare in Andover, MA, USA.

Threat Learning Platform

• It is a Web-based application prototype for storing and analyzing threat data streams and building entity-relationship models. It also provided data visualizations built through various open-source and internal threat streams.
• Developed on Spring 4.x, Apache Wicket, and ReactJS frameworks with OrientDB database and Lucene Search Engine.
• Forked open-source repository Stucco and deployed with customizations on AWS to collect and parse various threat streams.

Threat Awareness & Training

• Research on Microsoft Exchange Server addon development, engage in third-party vendor comparisons and evaluations for enterprise security solutions.
• Developed a Microsoft Outlook plugin that identifies the reported phishing awareness campaign emails to the security operations center mailbox by employees and filters them.

Anti-Phishing Platform

• It is a Microsoft Outlook add-on, which notifies users when accessing Outlook about suspicious values indicative of phishing by analyzing headers (SPF, DKIM, etc..) and email body.
• Designed a C# component that analyzes email headers. It also allows reporting a phishing email with the analysis result.
• Developed a VB.Net system process that eased interactions with machine learning algorithms written in Python and the C# component.

2015 - 2016 as a Software Engineer at Symbiosys Solutions Inc

Symbiosys Solutions Inc. is located in Concord, New Hampshire. It provided information technology services and day-to-day support for the software suite at New Hampshire Unemployment Insurance System. These applications manage the life cycle of unemployment insurance claims for the Employment Services Staff, Claimants, and Employers in New Hampshire.

• Fix defects through CA Harvest tickets in the existing system codebase. It was designed on JSP, Servlets, JDBC modules, and Oracle 12c as the database. It followed MVC architecture.
• Enhanced the existing NHUIS to reflect the updated United States Labor Department RESEA program.
• Document and Redesign the help section for NHIUS using Adobe Robohelp and supporting Section 508 and W3C standards.
• Rewriting the codebase of the existing system to modern frameworks viz: Spring and Hibernate ORM.

2013 - 2015 as a Graduate Student at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Awarded Master of Sciences degree in Computer Science.

• In the Spring of 2014, I worked on a machine learning course project that performed sentimental analysis on movie reviews and predicted the review rating.
• In the Summer of 2014, I interned at GrateCare an MIT-based startup for nine weeks.
• In Fall 2014, developed an Android application for students to post classifieds about books with auto price suggestions, The application could scan ISBN codes to give suggestions about prices and autofill fields. It also allowed students to send a request to buy the book.
• In Spring 2015, I developed a Python-based web application on 20 Questions Game for the AI coursework.

2012 - 2013 as an Associate Software Engineer at Tech Mahindra

Java Developer at Mahindra Satyam in Hyderabad, India.

• Designed three proof of concept applications for Dorms Allocation System, Bus Ticket booking for Agents, and Railways Ticket booking systems on Java-EE, Struts, Spring 3.x, Hibernate ORM, and JDBC.

Integrated Test Data Management

• It is a tool to support test data generation for projects, fulfill the test data requirements, and upload the data into different environments. It was developed on Spring MVC and Spring-JDBC framework modules.
• Designed user interface as JSP, HTML, XML, CSS3, and AJAX-based pages for Ticket Creation and Status Check modules.
• Developed unit test cases, designed database schemas, and validated data with MySQL queries.

2007 - 2011 as a Student at the Balaji Institute of Technology and Sciences

Awarded bachelor's degree in Computer science & engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

• In Spring 2009, I designed HTML pages, SQL queries, and database schemas for a web-based discussion forum project developed on ASP.Net framework for the students and professors in the school.
• In Fall 2010, presented a paper on Semantic Deep Web at IIIT Hyderabad, India.
• In Spring 2011, I developed a Java-J2EE-based implementation for the paper published in the IEEE magazine titled Histograms and Wavelets on Probabilistic Data.

Certifications

• Participated in a three-week faculty development program at KL University on Research Perspectives on AI, ML, Data Science, and IoT.
• Certified as Hibernate ORM Level 1 developer from Tech Mahindra.
• Completed a Web designing certification course at Inspire GEC, Bangalore in 2012.

Memberships

• ACM & CSTA
• Was a member of the MSDN Dream Spark Program.

Research Interests

• Machine Learning & AI, Information Security, and NLP for Aryan and Dravidian Languages & Travel.