Aakash Jain

Rochester, NY 14623 · (585) 360-8812 · aj9306@rit.edu

Work

Software Engineer II

Paychex
January 2019 - Present

Software Engineer Intern

Bose Corporation
September 2018 - December 2018

Web Developer Intern

Rochester Institute of Technology

Worked with the Dean of the College of Applied Science and Technology to develop and enhance web applications.

Gathered requirements, planned and developed a web application to replace manual processes for managing committees using PHP, MySQL, and jQuery.

Enhanced another web application, currently being used as the primary resource to support the faculty search process and evaluate prospective candidates for open faculty positions.

January 2018 - August 2018

Graduate Assistant

Rochester Institute of Technology

Designed and developed an application for effectively reporting and performing course assessment from a paper base to a web-base system using PHP, MySQL, and jQuery

August 2017 - May 2018

Teaching Assistant

Rochester Institute of Technology

Tutoring and Grading for the following courses:
1. Information Retrieval
2. Client Design and Development

January 2017 - December 2017

PROGRAMMER ANALYST

COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

Involved in all aspects of software development life cycle, primarily responsible for system analysis and coding. Some impactful deliverables include:

▪ As a part of US Government Insurance regulation, implemented (Graphical user interface and database) ICD10 Diagnosis codes into the MetLife Financial Institution.
▪ Automated repetitive manual tasks using PL/SQL and Java. It improved accuracy and reduced the time required from 1 hours to 5 minutes.
▪ Single handedly managed the Stability and Tuning Projects, resulting in the reduction from 28 to 6 hours for the monthly production batch and 10 to 2 hours for the weekly batch using PL/SQL and Java.

August 2013 - August 2016

Education

Rochester Institute of Technology

Master of Science
Information Science and Technology

GPA: 3.97

August 2016 - May 2018

Birla Institute of Technology

Computer Application

GPA: 8.76

August 2010 - May 2013

Projects

Connect 4

Developed a web application that allows a user to chat online and play turn-based Connect 4 game. The user can challenge anyone who is online as well as spectate other people’s game. Java, SVG, JSP, Servlet, MySQL.

Responsive Photo Gallery

Web Application to manage, organize and share your photos and albums.

Online News Recommendation System

Designed and developed a content-based news recommendation system for online news readers. Successfully implemented Naïve Bayes for classification and vector space model to retrieve and rank documents with regards to a user query. Java, JSP, Servlet.

QuickBuy

Designed and developed an Android application for RIT students, that provides a mechanism to post or find any item and connect to the respective buyers or sellers. – Android.

FoodShare

iOS application having two major functionalities, i.e. to post details about the leftover food and search for the leftover food within a given radius (in miles). - Swift3.

RapidBuy

Demo

Designed and developed an E-commerce website having all basic functionalities such as login, admin operations, displaying items, adding items to cart etc. PHP, MySQL, HTML, JavaScript.

Information Science and Technology Website

Demo

Developed web-presence for the Information Sciences & Technology department of Rochester Institute of Technology. Consumed existing API using jQuery AJAX and generated the content dynamically for the website.

Skills


  • Java, PHP, SQL, Swift, PL/SQL, AWS, Servlets, JSP, Junit, JDBC, Maven, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, RESTful Web Services, SOAP, MySQL, MongoDB & Neo4j, GIT, Apache Tomcat, Eclipse, Android Studio, Xcode.

Awards

  • Graduate Assistantship: 65% Tuition Remission - Rochester Institute of Technology.
  • Star of the month award for Nov ‘14 and Sep ‘15 - Cognizant Technology and Solution.
  • Star of the quarter award for Q3 ‘15 and Q2 ‘16 - Cognizant Technology and Solution.
  • 1st Place - Birla Institute of Technology - TechFest (Programming)