Srivathsan Venkateswaran

Experience

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  Bookfinders.in

  Oct 2019 - Sept 2020

  Social Media Manager

  -Published more than 200 articles on study materials for competitive exams like JEE, NEET, AIIMS and JIPMER-Did SEO to achieve number 1 ranking in Google for multiple keywords-Helped the website reach more than 47,500 unique users-During my tenure, the website reached more than 213,000 page views-Optimized content to achieve an average of 3.12 pages per session and average session duration of 2 minutes and 45 seconds-Made the website responsive and lowered the bounce rate by 40%-Optimized SEO to generate more than 12,000 organic page views per month from google-Expanded the reach globally to get visitors from 50+ countries across 7 continents-Created EdTech specific content promotion strategies for social media Show less

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  Indo Universal Collaboration for Engineering Education ( IUCEE )

  Aug 2020 - Dec 2020

  Student Member

  Did a course and case study on Entrepreneurship opportunities for Indian Students in collaboration with Oklahoma State University. Ideated a business that could potentially end hunger for bachelors, migrant workers and single parents.

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  Pragyan - International Techno-managerial Organisation

  Jan 2021 - Apr 2021

  Finalist

  Reached finals of Ingenium - Pragyan's annual inter collegiate hackathon

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  Masters Mentor

  Feb 2022 - now

  Social Media Manager

  -Designed Thumbnails for YouTube videos-Edited videos to be published on YouTube-Provided SEO insights for better reach-Edited Reels and Shorts to be Uploaded

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  Zoho

  Jul 2022 - Jul 2022

  Summer Intern

  -Worked on building a robust ticket booking system-Learnt JVM internals such as Permgen, Classloaders etc.-Learnt about 22 different design patterns and made a case study on themReceived a Project Trainee Offer.

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  IBM

  Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

  Graduate Student

  Lead my team which was part of Nalaiya Thiran Initiative backed by IBM. We built a cloud integrated personal expense tracker by leveraging the following technologies and methodologies. -Scrum-Flask-IBM DB2-Docker-IBM Container Registry -Kubernetes

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  Caterpillar Inc.

  Jan 2023 - now

  - Part of the Search Team managing Caterpillar's Enterprise and Mission Critical Search Applications.- Built an Developer Productivity tool which helps the developer to backup Fusion Artifacts thereby helps the team keep track of Changes in Managed Fusion.- Built a custom crawler to index PDF Data from SharePoint and Improved crawling performance by 72%- Built 5 automation tools saving 1000 developer hours and $65,000 every year- Took responsibility to fix the Security Vulnerabilities reported in Enterprise Search Applications- Co-ordinated CAT's Internal Security Program for Enterprise Search which required the co-operation of 4 Teams across 3 Organizations. - Took up MLOps work and set-up a process to deploy Query Intent & Embedding ML Models.- Spearheaded MLOps aspects of CAT.com's Search Relevancy Optimization and devised the MLOps workflow.- Co-ordinated with Security Assurance Testing team and fixed the reported vulnerabilities- Did an Overhaul of CAT Dealer Search UI using Lucidworks App Studio- Did a gap analysis on Multi Language Search UI for CAT Dealer Search in order to onboard French Content as part of Quebec Bill 96, which mandates CAT to conduct business in French- Improved CAT.com search performance and noticed 80% reduction in P95 response time and 5x improvement in Throughput.- Co-ordinated Monthly Releases, Interim Release and Platform Upgrade in Production- Identified the Gap in Deployment process and devised a new process.- Created a Nomenclature Guide for naming Fusion Artifacts, which helped the developers and support team avoid confusion during Platform Migration and Platform Upgradation.- Worked on Remote Connector Migration of Enterprise Search sites which enabled us to index CAT confidential content directly onto Lucidworks managed Fusion Instance. Show less

  • Software Engineer - 1

    Jul 2023 - now

  • College Intern

    Jan 2023 - Jun 2023