Suraj Kumar

Suraj Kumar

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  • About me

    Associate Software Engineer @ MathWorks | CS Graduate from MSRIT

  • Education

    • Presidency School

      2005 - 2017
      Class 10 Maths, Science and Computers

      Activities and Societies: Participated in Mock Parliament Debate and MUN , Red House Vice Captain

    • Ramaiah Institute Of Technology

      2019 - 2023
      Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computers Science and Engineering

      Activities and Societies: CentuRITon - Lead Organizer | Google DSC RIT - Core Team Member | RIT STARDUST - Chief System Engineer

    • Presidency College

      2017 - 2019
      PUC PCMC

      Activities and Societies: Emcee - Intercollegiate cultural fest "Zephyr & Colossus" in 2017 and 2018 | Emcee - Freshers' Day 2019

  • Experience

    • TechMachinery Labs

      Feb 2021 - Oct 2021

      Involved in end-to-end development and progress of a business mobile app that aims to boost the efficiency and security of the customer's company. Worked in a fast paced agile development cycle and took ownership of developing an application with Flutter from scratch to internal testing.

      • Software Engineer

        Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
      • Frontend Developer Intern

        Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
    • Genemine Discoveries Pvt. Ltd.

      Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
      Full Stack Developer
    • MathWorks

      Jan 2023 - Jun 2023
      Intern in Engineering Development Group

      - Contributed to edge-case debugging and optimizations in Simulink's Variants.- Deployed and enhanced an internal web-application that formalises a weekly team workflow involving managers and engineers in Technical Support.

    • MathWorks

      Aug 2023 - now
      Associate in Engineering Development Group

      - Engineering enhancements to internal applications for MathWorks' build and test framework.- Revamped the in-tool guidance component in Variant Manager (Simulink).- Maintaining and enhancing an internal tool that formalizes the coaching process of new engineers in Technical Support.

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Second Runner's Up | GrabHack 2025 Grab Jul 2025 Our team developed an AI-driven, autonomous SRE system designed to ensure reliable payments in a cloud-hosted microservice environment. This innovative solution operates like a "Cursor AI equivalent for SRE," by continuously consuming system logs and metrics, intelligently triaging issues, identifying root causes, and automatically applying fixes in production, significantly enhancing visibility and streamlining payment team workflows.
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Most Awesome Hack | MathWorks BGL Hack Day MathWorks Nov 2024 I'm incredibly proud that our project won the "MOST AWESOME HACK" as voted by fellow MathWorkers.Our project enhances the developer experience at MathWorks through its integration with our CI pipelines and Version Control System. In a span of 24 hours, we built extensions for #VSCode and #MATLAB which were shown off with multiple examples during the live demos
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Best Project Award (2nd Prize) Ramaiah Institute of Technology May 2023 Extending the capabilities of LLMs using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), we have developed an interface to connect LLMs to webpages through context-aware chunking and vector embeddings.We demo-ed a flavour of ChatGPT exclusive to RIT that had the knowledge of over 500 webpages from msrit.edu.Not only was it a hit among the audience at 'Pradarshana 2023' but was also picked for the 2nd Prize Best Project Award by the industry experts.
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Winner | Smart India Hackathon 2022 Policy Planning Cell, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Aug 2022 Won the National Smart India Hackathon by developing a AI Text Summarization toolkit for the Press Information Bureau of India.
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      First Prize | CodeFury 4.0 IEEE UVCE CS Oct 2021 Won First Prize in a nationwide Hackathon wherein I led a team of 4 developers while taking up key roles in the frontend and integration layers myself.Duration: 24hrsTheme: Virtual Group Learning
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Best Advanced Hack | HackTable '21 DevPost Aug 2021 Led my team to victory in a global online Hackathon that saw over 450 participants with 62 submissions in total.Duration: 36 hoursCategory: Advanced (>2 years of coding experience)
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      First Prize | Catch the Anomaly IEEE RIT Mar 2021 Code Debugging Sprint organized to celebrate achievements of Women in Engineering by IEEE
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Honorable Mention | Capture The Flag Google Developers Student Clubs RIT Nov 2020 Earned an honorable mention in DSC RIT's CTF competition held online on 29th November.The contest witnessed over 100 participants among which my team stood 4th and won an Honorable Mention award.
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Runner's Up | CodeFury 3.0 IEEE UVCE Nov 2020 Led the team Cache-in to 2nd place in the yearly national level hackathon by IEEE UVCE and won a cash prize of Rs.5000.Problem Domain : Jobs for AllApp Development
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Winner | Ideathon Google Developers Student Clubs RIT September 1, 2020 Won the first place with my team in the Online Ideathon.Theme : Open InnovationOur idea was to do something for patients with terminal diseases
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      First Prize | hackCOVID Nationwide Hackathon HackerEarth June 1, 2020 Our submission, Kirana Seva, has been selected to win the first prize by HackerEarth.The Incubation Sponsor, AIC - Great Lakes Balachandran Incubator, has decided to extend end-to-end incubation support at the Great Lakes Institute of Management with an opportunity to apply for seed funding of upto Rs. 25 lakhs.
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Runner's Up | MiniHack CodeRIT May 1, 2020 Mini Hack at MS Ramaiah Institute of TechnologyThemes - Entertainment , FitnessDuration - 36 hoursDeveloped a casual online multiplayer game titled 'Tug Of War' which we developed further into a full production app on the Play Store.https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.statefullyfidgeting.tugofwar
    • Awarded to Suraj Kumar
      Winner | Empyreal Hackathon E-Cell Ramaiah Feb 2020 Won the Intercollege Hackathon organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell @ RIT.Submitted an app to help reduce stress in the corporate sector , on Growvation .
  • Volunteer Experience

    • Lead Organizer

      Issued by CentuRITon on Jul 2022
      CentuRITonAssociated with Suraj Kumar
    • Core Team Member

      Issued by Google Developer Student Clubs, Ramaiah Institute of Technology on May 2021
      Google Developer Student Clubs, Ramaiah Institute of TechnologyAssociated with Suraj Kumar
    • Chief System Engineer

      Issued by STARDUST_RIT on Nov 2020
      STARDUST_RITAssociated with Suraj Kumar
    • Student Volunteer/Grantee

      Issued by YSA (Youth Service America) on Jul 2016
      YSA (Youth Service America)Associated with Suraj Kumar