Vikas Palakkat

Vikas palakkat

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  • Timeline

    Jul 2019 - Aug 2019

    Development Intern

    Triaxia Infotech Pvt Ltd
    May 2020 - May 2020

    Virtual Internship

    JPMorganChase
    Dec 2020 - Jul 2022

    Software Developer Engineer

    Cognizant
    Sept 2022 - Aug 2023

    Graduate Student

    Dublin City University
    Oct 2022 - May 2023

    Customer Assistant

    Tesco Ireland
    Current Company
    Nov 2023 - now

    Software Engineer

    Bonafi
  • About me

    Software Engineer at Bonafi | MSc in Computing | Microservices | Python | Ex-Cognizant

  • Education

    • Apj abdul kalam technological university

      2016 - 2020
      Bachelor of technology - btech computer science
    • Dublin city university

      2022 - 2023
      Master of science - ms computing (data analytics)
  • Experience

    • 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

    • Jpmorganchase

      May 2020 - May 2020
      Virtual internship

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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Tesco ireland

      Oct 2022 - May 2023
      Customer assistant
    • Bonafi

      Nov 2023 - now
      Software engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Business english certificate - vantage

      University of cambridge
      Jan 2017
    • Python 3 programming specialization by university of michigan on coursera.

      Coursera
      Sept 2020
      View certificate certificate
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Vikas Palakkat
      Certificate of Excellence for Topper of Computer Science ( School ) - CBSE AISSCE Lakshmi Narayana Vidyanikethan Jun 2016
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Member

      Issued by MOBConf on Aug 2017
      MOBConfAssociated with Vikas Palakkat
    • Student Volunteer

      Issued by National Service Scheme on Aug 2017
      National Service SchemeAssociated with Vikas Palakkat