Kopal Kothari

Experience

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  EMC

  Jan 2008 - Jun 2008

  Internship trainee
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  IBM

  Jul 2008 - Mar 2017

  ibm bluemix paasi was part of bluemix garage team from jan 2016 – march 2017. as part of my role i have acquired skills in test driven development and pair programming to develop applications on bluemix. working on bluemix as a platform i have worked on various services hosted in bluemix like data services, hybrid services etc. also have worked on devops as part of continuous delivery on bluemix. i participated in customer workshops conducted to skill them in bluemix and inculcate in them garage methods of devel-opment. i have also build assets for the team which can be used to showcase in demos and workshops to the customers on bluemix. show less ibm smarter cities project , intelligent video analyticsi have been part of intelligent video analytics team which is part of smarter cities project. the video analytics involves detection of any untoward activities happening in a scene. it automatically alerts user if any predefined incidences happens in a video. iva communicates with ibm intelligent operation center and provides the alerts generated on the integrated command center. i have contributed to following salient aspects of intelligent video analytics. • offshore projects: 1. smarter city project: designed and implemented iva in worldwide countries. i was the architect of the project and worked from requirement gathering to implementaion of the project. i travelled offshore and completed the project. 2. public saftey and command center project: started with understanding design specifi-cation, architecture of iva and its integration with third part vendor and ioc. deployed iva at public safety and security command center abroad. played a lead role in de-veloping and implementing interface between iva an ioc. integration of iva and ioc made video analytics to be available at the command center. i performed portal and iva admin tasks. it involved deployment and development of servlets and video portlets in ioc. • proof of concepts and demos: presented iva to commissioner, ias and government agen-cies of various indian cities to make the them smarter. • world wide implementation: helped and guided various teams in india and abroad to under-stand and implement iva. • trainings: gave various internal and external training on iva both in india and abroad. show less smarter cities, traffic prediction toolworked on various data structures and algorithm to implement prediction of traffic on road. i collaborated with ibm research to implement road traffic prediction using ibm patented algorithm using live traffic data. there is lot of number crunching done in math libraries which has written in java. that transforms the current data to predict the traffic on each road of a given city. the solution has few offline and online batch calculation driven by scheduled calendar and generates prerequisite data which finally used by online calculation to predict traffic for near future. this was well received and appreciated by customer and media. this product has data intensive operation with needs to complete in time. there was lot of performance, optimization, profiling effort which has gone in to finish the calculation in time. this involves java code and optimization, db queries tuning and design. technically, this solution is purely in java and designed to work with was, db2 and various other sup-porting tools. it runs with opensource quartz and was scheduler. i was one among the 2 developers in the project. show less

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Jan 2016 - Mar 2017

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Sept 2013 - Dec 2015

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Aug 2010 - Aug 2013

  • System Software Engineer

    Jul 2008 - Jul 2010
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  IBM

  Jul 2018 - Mar 2019

  Software architect

  ibm watson marketingi am a part of watson marketing from june 2018 till today. it is a suite of offerings designed to solve marketers problem like designing campaigns, gain insights of customer behaviors. the offerings involved under watson marketing portfolio are watson campaign automation, watson content hub, real time personalization, digital analytics(coremeterics), behaviour analytics (tealeaf) and journey analytics. i was responsible to enable the business partners on these tools so that a practice can be build in their team for these products. i played a role of evangelist and gave many webinars and sessions to the business partners teams. show less

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  IBM

  Feb 2021 - Jul 2022

  Senior software developer

  i was part of ibm app connect team as a software developer. it was a short stint of around 1.5 years where i learnt agile practices applied in software development. the product was based on nodejs and had microservice architecture. i also worked on devops, kubernetes. code writing and testing both was done by developers.

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  Comportement

  Aug 2023 - now

  Project manager