Rydel D'costa

Experience

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  Super - Tinder; but for Jobs

  May 2016 - Jul 2016

  Android Developer

  Worked on migrating the app to the new permissions model introduced in Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Added a ’Rate the App’ feature and other UI improvements within the app

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  Morgan Stanley

  May 2017 - Jul 2017

  Intern

  Interned in the Fund Services team at Morgan Stanley. As part of my 2 month internship, built a distributed framework in Java for faster execution.

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  Nanyang Technological University Singapore

  Jan 2018 - Jun 2018

  Research Assistant

  Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving: Modeled a lightweight neural network for labeling each pixel in road scene imagery. The remodeled network had a 5x smaller memory footprint while still maintaining a respectable 71% mIoU.Utilized : Python, TensorFlow with CUDA support, Linux

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  Morgan Stanley

  Aug 2018 - Aug 2019

  Distributed Statement Engine: Designed a distributed platform to generate Investor Statement data 1.5x more efficiently, by scaling horizontally. Used SOAP services and IBM Message Queues for inter-process communication and HazelCast for the caching layer. Utilized : Java, Spring, SQL, SOAP, XML, IBM MQ, HazelCast Stress Calculator for Hedge Funds: Designed and developed an automated tool for Hedge Fund Managers to calculate New Investment breakdowns based on Investor holdings. The tool can further generate Excel reports for Client Analysis. Utilized : Java, Spring, SQL, REST, Swagger, Excel Show less Stock Trading System: Collaborated with a team of 3 on an end-to-end platform for trading stocks and managing a Portfolio. Designed a Service-oriented Architecture, communicating over REST APIs , connected to a UI built in Angular. Focused on making the system highly Available, Transactional and Fault Tolerant using ZooKeeper. Used a PubSub messaging model to pass data. Utilized : Java, Spring, SQL, Angular, Zookeeper, CPS, HTML, CSS SQL Parser and Visualizer: Built a tool in .NET for visualizing complex nested SQL queries in a tree-structured form. Leveraged the ANTLR framework to build a lexer and parser. Added functionality to modify constructs of a query intuitively without having to write low-level SQL. Utilized : Csharp, ANTLR, SQL, WPF Show less

  • Associate

    Dec 2018 - Aug 2019

  • Analyst

    Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
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  Amazon

  Aug 2019 - now

  • Software Dev Engineer II

    Mar 2021 - now

  • Software Engineer

    Aug 2019 - Mar 2021