HARSH THAKKAR (Email): harsh.thakkar@asu.edu (Phone): (480) 265-5499 1265 E University Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/harsh-thakkar/4b/427/9a5 https://github.com/thakkarharsh91 Computer Science Graduate student with an interest in Web Development and Database Management. Worked as Software

Developer for around 2.5 years in AGILE software development environment. Seeking full time position as a Software Developer.

Education MS in Computer Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 3.52/4 Estimated Dec 2016

B.E. in Information Technology, DDU, Gujarat, India 3.6/4 May 2012

Professional Experience Software Intern, Choice Hotels International, Arizona June 2016 - Present

Worked on a web application useful for hotel reservation and developed RESTful services useful for group reservation and

group notification system.

Ease the process of first time configuration of web applications using Vagrant along with Puppet and Chef for provisioning.

Cloned PROD Database using Delphix to provide the duplicate copy to the target environments saving memory and time at

the same time.

Software Developer, Arizona State University Mar 2015 - June 2015 Worked on an android application which works with Bluetooth enabled hardware for checking metabolic rate and real time

respiratory quotient of the user. Various visualizations along with estimation of weight gain/loss were the other key features.

Software Developer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India June 2012 - Nov 2014

Worked on a web application based on Struts framework for Siemens Employees used for Invoice approval and processing.

The web application focused on the concepts of JSP, Javascript, CSS, Jquery and AJAX for front end and SQL database for

backend.

Provided end to end solution for the new change requests for SAP Integration with web based application.

Involvement in requirement gathering and Impact Analysis phase for the new projects and make sure all that all the phases of

Software development life cycle are properly followed.

Software Developer Intern, Nichetech Solutions, India Dec 2011 - May 2012 Developed an android application which helps the user to set task which he/she can’t remember in his/her daily busy life

along with mapping of locations.

Academic Projects Adaptive support for discussion forum Jan 2016 - May 2016

Build an adaptive recommender system based on stack overflow data. Used R scripting to process the data, ElasticSearch to

index and search for the data and Apache Mahout for item based and user based recommendation.

Online banking website Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

Developed a Banking website which focuses on key aspects of security like Clickjacking, SQL injection, CSRF, URL

tampering, DOS, SSL connection, PKI infrastructure, OTP, role based authentication, cache filter, session validation,

database encryption, Password salting and XSS attacks

Geo-Spatial Operations Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

Developed project focusing on Geo-spatial operations using Hadoop for file system and spark library for the business logic.

Later, the project was required to run in various situations to estimate the communication cost, performance and CPU

utilization.

Online Shopping Portal Aug 2015 - Dec 2015

Developed a Service Oriented online shopping portal using the concepts of WCF framework and C#.

Developed SOAP and Restful services like Weather service, Find nearest store, credit card verification, Load cart etc. for the

final application.

Child Safety app May 2015 - Aug 2015

Developed an android application which focuses on the child safety in particular. The app is synchronized with the band

present on child’s wirst through Bluetooth and alerts the parents if the child is in danger.

Social Recommender System Jan 2015 – May 2015

Developed an social recommender system where the data set was generated using the Matlab Environment and HITS and

PageRank algorithms were used to recommended the top most users of one network to the current user in the other network.

Technical Skills Programming Languages & Frameworks : Java, C#, C, C++, Struts2, Spring.

Database : MY SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite.

Web Technologies : JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, Ajax, HTML, XML.

Tools : Vagrant, Puppet, Delphix, Weblogic, IBM WAS, Tomcat, Eclipse, Maven,

I Microsoft Visio, GitHub, Visual Studio, Elastic Search, Apache Mahout.

Big Data Ecosystems : Hadoop, Spark