Pankil Shah


A versatile software developer with a strong research background and 3.5 years of industry experience building highly scalable applications, implementing large scale software systems and passionate about solving challenging problems.


I have worked in multiple areas including backend development, frontend development, web development, Robotic Process Automation (RPA); excited to learn and explore new skills and technologies.


In free time, I love playing cricket and travelling around to explore unknown places.


If you have any roles that are right fit to me, do get in touch. I would love to have a quick chat!

Pankil

Skillset

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Projects

Stock Price Prediction using Machine Learning

A program to predict the future price of a stock by leveraging 5 different machine learning models, comparing the results of these models and choosing the model with best results.

Machine Learning models used: Linear Regression, KNN, SVM, RandomForest and LSTM

Github

Deelingual

A multi lingual dictionary application that helps lexicographers(dictionary writers) by breaking down the sentences into clusters with related sense. The user can select a word of interest, part of speech and the desired language to get all the sentences with that particular word.

It supports English, Italian and German. Other features include organized cluster views and cluster preview, keyword in context(KWIC) and users can select number of clusters.

It is developed in Python using Flask framework and uses MySQL database.

Github

Inventory Management

A one-stop solution for managing huge number of incoming and outgoing stocks, allocating it to the engineers and maintain a record of the usages.

Functionalities include adding of item, city, engineer, stock, allocation of engineers and reporting the usages and defects. Defective items can be sent to repair and added back once repaired. You can view these in a feature-rich tabular form, download reports in Excel and PDF formats as well as analyse them directly from dashboard. It has the capability to provide role based access to the users with admin having the full access of all the functionalities.

It is developed in .NET framework with Angular 8 as front-end technology and MongoDB.

Github

Billing System

A billing system developed for generating bills quickly in an exhibition. It makes the handling of sales, invoices and tracking of payments a lot easier. It also has the 'Save for later' functionality to store items in customer shopping cart until purchase.

The program is written in Java back-end and front-end includes HTML and Materialize CSS.

Github

Experience

Enterprise Fleet Management

Application Development Intern

May 2022 - Aug 2022

  • Designed and developed prototypes for financial applications using PeopleSoft Application Designer
  • Orchestrated job streams to automate, plan and control the billing cycle processes

Saint Louis University

Graduate Research Assistant

Feb 2021 - May 2022

  • Assisted Dr. Jie Hou in research project by developing software system to visualize complex protein data
  • Experimented with 20 secondary structure prediction tools and generated a pipeline to predict 3D structure

Infosys Ltd, India

Senior Systems Engineer

Jun 2019 - Nov 2020

  • Developed backend microservices and frontend UI to build Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tool from scratch
  • Devised strategy to migrate from MongoDB to MySQL database; redesigned complex schema; recreated 100+ Data Access Layer and Business Access Layer methods, ensuring smooth transition
  • Led a team of 4 developers to improve code coverage from 55% to 90% by writing unit tests

Systems Engineer

Jun 2017 - May 2019

  • Built Headless Automation utility to automate workflows, increasing speed of doing manual tasks by 70%
  • Increased server query response time by 20% by performing extensive code refactoring
  • Boosted team efficiency by replacing manual logfile analysis with user-oriented monitoring dashboard
  • Managed and handled product deployment across 10+ client networks
  • Awarded 'Rising Star Award' for outstanding performance as a fresher

BISAG

Software Development Engineer Intern

Dec 2016 - Apr 2017

  • Created responsive web application facilitating users to monitor and analyze data available on Geo-server and perform different styling operations on maps in Geo-server

Education

Saint Louis University

Master of Science, Computer Science

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022(Expected)

  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Machine Learning
  • DevOps
  • Principles of Software Development
  • Computer Networking

Dharmsinh Desai University

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Engineering

Jul 2013 - May 2017

  • Datastructures & Algorithms
  • Object Oriented Programming using Java
  • Operating Systems
  • Database Management
  • Design & Analysis of Algorithms
  • Web Development in .NET
  • Software Engineering
  • Mobile Application Development