Vikas Palakkat

Experience

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  Triaxia Infotech Pvt Ltd

  Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

  Development Intern

  - Involved in user market research and contributed to User Design Prototyping for mobileapplication to book appointments using Adobe XD.- Worked with the business team to capture the requirements and defined features andbacklogs for the mobile application product.- Implemented a web scraping application using Python to retrieve the data from various datasources to be served as a metadata for health appointment application

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  JPMorganChase

  May 2020 - May 2020

  Virtual Internship

  Completed practical task modules in:-Establishing Financial Data Feeds-Frontend Web Development-Data Visualization with Perspective

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  Cognizant

  Dec 2020 - Jul 2022

  Software Developer Engineer

  - Designed and Implemented an API based micro services architecture using Flask with the persistent layer as PostgreSQL for storing all the business transactions.- Authored API definitions for all the micro services adhering to Open API specifications using Swagger.- Implemented a monitoring platform to monitor the micro services infrastructure using Flaskmeasuring metrics including Service Health, Resource Utilisation, Total transactions, Errored transactions etc.- Developed a best practice guide for implementing Unit test cases using Pytest for Flask Applications which is followed by all developers.- Developed a three-stage release strategy mechanism according to industry standard to rolloutnew versions to production with zero downtime.- Involved in manual code reviews of Java & Flask applications and ensured that the services in production have 90%-unit test coverage, no security vulnerabilities, and no integration touchpoint failures.- Involved in implementing integration testing framework for micro services applications using Postman which is used as a validation framework before rolling out changes to production.- Involved in the architecture design of the platform with the software architects and contributed to the Pilot implementation using Flask to validate the architecture. Show less

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  Dublin City University

  Sept 2022 - Aug 2023

  Graduate Student

  - Built a data warehousing solution using Apache Hadoop, Hive & Pig to store and analyse datasources from different destinations.- Designed, trained, and built a machine learning model using XLNet to detect spamdocuments/emails from the data warehousing platform.- Built a Real-time API service using Spring Boot to expose the machine learning model todetect spam documents and deployed in GCP infrastructure.- Designed, trained, and built a Multi-Class Text Classification Using BERT and Linear SVC forProduct Categorisation and Colour Prediction for an online marketplace.- Implemented an API based solution using Flask framework to expose the ML model for multiclass text classification for online users.- Implemented an authentication mechanism using JWT for user authentication andauthorisation for all API based solutions. Show less

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  Tesco Ireland

  Oct 2022 - May 2023

  Customer Assistant
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  Bonafi

  Nov 2023 - now

  Software Engineer