Dhara Thakkar

Experience

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  Cognizant India Pvt. Ltd.

  Aug 2013 - Sept 2014

  Programmer Analyst

  • Worked on a Project in Customer Relationship Management Domain. Created and dealt with entities.• Gained experience and proficiency in working with Asp.NET, JavaScript, and SQL.• Responsible for arranging project requirements in programming sequence by analyzing requirements;• Preparing a work flow chart and diagram using knowledge of computer capabilities, subject matter, programming language, and logic.• Developed and maintained applications and databases by evaluating client needs. Show less

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  Monash University

  Sept 2016 - Feb 2017

  Graduate Research Assistant

  • Worked with Php.• Successfully deployed a php Application for a research based experiment.• For stylings, used CSS, JavaScript and Bootstrap.

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  Parmalat Australia

  Dec 2016 - Feb 2017

  Intern

  • Worked with Python, Flask, JQuery, Ajax and JavaScript to build a web application like a sales ordering system for the sites for farm milk supply.• Produce a daily delivery schedule for each production site, specifying the source location (Region or 3rd party) for each load of raw milk• Worked on the above technologies along with excel to create another web application for milk cooling curve used by the carriersand field service officers. The features of python used here are openpyxl, csv reader/writer, etc.• Used exponential triple smoothing method in excel to forecast farm milk production.• Optimized milk supply from farm to processing sites and Produce a daily 3rd party milk purchase requirement schedule by using solver add in in excel. Show less

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  Penn State University

  Sept 2017 - Nov 2018

  Research Assistant

  Project 1:• Worked on a project entitled “Temporospatial Analytics to Enable Smarter City Mobility Services” or simply called “Citibike”, supported by IBM.• Designed and developed an Android Mobile Application for city bikes using Android Studio. • The backend consisted of an architecture that uses Hadoop to store the large amounts of data that will be streaming from this application and Citibike servers. Developing the backend infrastructure using Tomcat, Hadoop and Spark. Project 2: • Used unstructured data from Twitter, Forums & Blogs, Main Media and other sources to analyze it based on emotions. • The process collected the data using Kafka as a broker to stream real-time data and then applied machine learning and deep learning techniques to provide real-time analytics. • The analysis process consisted of RNN, Tensorflow, Keras and Spark Streaming Analyzer. Show less

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  Oracle

  Jun 2018 - now

  Data Science and Quality Engineer