Raghu Padma

Experience

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  The Hedrick Lab

  Oct 2019 - Nov 2020

  Undergraduate Research Volunteer

  • Constructing a territorial model of around 30 different flying lizards in a plantation field utilizing Python alongside tools such as Excel to examine, organize, and clean data; Pandas to efficiently analyze and clean data; and Matplotlib to visually represent individuals.• Before the onset of COVID-19, employed Deep Lab Cut (pre-trained neural network), various lab tools (GUIs), and principles of machine learning and computer vison to identify specific points on a flying lizard to train neural networks in identifying flying lizards.• Used to work under postgrad student Jonathan Rader who analyzes bird wings to study flight patterns. Scanned bird wings using Scan Studio and entered in data corresponding to the wing into system. Show less

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  ACM, Association for Computing Machinery

  Sept 2020 - Jul 2022

  President / Founder

  ◦ Managed Organization: Launched a chapter of ACM at UNC and oversaw organization; facilitated building relationships with 5+ companies, the student body, and the UNC CS department and recruited 150+ students to join organization◦ Oversaw Events: Organized 10+ events such as general body meetings, various company talks, social events, etc. and held multiple events with 150+ participants such as a kickoff event to HackNC and a talk with Fred Brooks (Turing Award Winner) and Henry Fuchs (ACM Fellow) Show less

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  Duke Energy Corporation

  Jan 2021 - May 2021

  Data Engineer

  ◦ Refine Data Processing: Contributed to the Meter Data Insights (MDI) project and assisted in optimizing PySpark scripts and transferring Jupyter Notebooks from an on-premise environment to an AWS EMR environment

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  Allstate

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Software Engineer

  ◦ Maintained Codebase: Worked in the Claims Technology Services (CTS) department to help maintain five products which provided adjusters greater insight into claims and assisted in transferring claim data across various products/platforms◦ Product Fixes: Engineered new features, bug fixes, and refactors using the Spring Boot and React frameworks in a paired programming environment and maintained a heavy focus on TDD to ensure the quality of the products◦ Microservice Development: Architected new microservice in order to automate event configurations which allowed other microservices to write data to RabbitMQ queues when certain events were triggered Show less

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  NLP Lab w/ Professor Srivastava

  Aug 2021 - Jan 2022

  Undergraduate Student Researcher

  ◦ Responsible for building language model based on AITA subreddit to analyze situation and determine right and wrong◦ Wrote script to collect 1000+ subreddit posts and used Firebase to store data◦ Learned and researched various NLP techniques

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  UNC Department of Computer Science

  Jan 2022 - May 2023

  Undergraduate Learning Assistant

  ◦ Office Hours: Hold weekly office hours to assist students with labs, go over difficult concepts, and review exams/quizzes◦ Prepare Materials: Lead weekly review sessions that go over material being taught in class; create midterm reviews to assist students to prepare for exams; and, assist Professor review labs, worksheets, and midterms

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  Capital One

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Software Engineer

  ◦ Full-Stack Application: Engineered proof-of-concept full-stack application to display login information and high risk transactions for given customer; this tool can be used to evaluate fraud and create predictive insights about customer activity◦ AWS Infrastructure: Deployed application infrastructure to AWS environment; utilized S3 Static Content Delivery, Lambda Functions, Aurora PostgreSQL to deploy UI, API, database (DB) respectfully◦ Built Infrastructure: Developed Redux UI alongside PostgreSQL DB and API to store user state and deliver data efficiently reducing latency for the user◦ Data Engineering: Analyzed and extracted data points related to customer login activity using Snowflake aiming to replicate production data in a non-production environment; built pipelines to move data from Snowflake to PostgreSQL DB Show less

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  Capital One

  Aug 2023 - now

  Associate Software Engineer