Tharun Palla

Zuora

• Built the front-end for creating and managing custom events and custom scheduled events in the Zuora UI with React, GraphQL and Typescript, allowing customers to self-serve rather than managing events via API.
• Developed campaign management out-of-the-box feature using React, GraphQL and Spring framework to automate identified churned customers and send marketing communications focused on win-back offers.

NC State BAE Department

• Developed a cross-platform software to automate gathering rainfall grid data from National Weather Service and converting the data to DSS format with Python GUI framework Tkinter and Vortex data processing utility, reducing several hours of manual work to minutes.

Barclays | Barclaycard US

• Re-architected and migrated legacy monolithic payment platform to microservices. Applied 12-factor app, Test Driven Development, and CICD methodologies to develop, containerize and deploy the applications on Openshift.
• Improved the lifecycle of the application deployment process by leveraging Spring-Boot, Hibernate, and other DevOps tools to reduce production release time by 70%.
• Enhanced features in credit card payments that minimized fraud, money laundering risk, and delays in posting payments. Reduced call volume by 500k in 12 months after Go-Live, saving ~1.3M$.
• Developed applications using Spring Boot and Quartz scheduler to automate vendor payment confirmation process by generating alerts for SLA breaches, resulting in minimized delinquency risk and reduced customer complaints by 25%.
• Developed automated processes using Spring Boot, Spring Batch, and Tivoli Workload Scheduler to reduce manual errors, thus slashing processing time associated with payment settlements.
• Introduced sidecar pattern into the microservice architecture for non-container activities, including authentication through OAuth, API documentation, validation with OAS 3.0, Logging and Monitoring, and Networking.
• Tech stack - Java-Spring (Boot, Batch, Cloud, Data, Security), Oracle DB, IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler, IBM Datastage, Docker, Jenkins, Hashicorp(Vault, Consul), Cloudera Kafka, ActiveMQ, AppD, ELK, Redhat Openshift.

IBuild Innovation Limited

• Developed the frontend for IBHubs Startup School program using ReactJS. Developed cross-platform mobile applications for Android and iOS using Redux and Mobx state management in React-Native.
• Developed several reusable, custom components for HTML forms to build applications in React and React-Native efficiently.

North Carolina State Univeristy - Raleigh

GPA: 4/4

Coursework:
Design and Analysis of Algorithms
Automated Learning and Data Analysis
Computer Networks

Personality Detection using Five-Factor Model

Developed an interactive quiz web application to collect data and predict personality using unsupervised KMeans clustering algorithms.
• Technologies - Python, Flask, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Numpy, K Means.

Reasoning with Markov Logic Networks

Used Markov Logic Networks to support inference over uncertain knowledge for modeling a beam design use case. Generated evidence using a probabilistic model and compared the efficiencies of Tuffy and Alchemy (Two widely used Markov logic inference engines).

Bluetooth Attendance Management

Developed a web application to register students and record their attendances using Bluetooth addresses of their mobiles/laptops with Bootstrap and Django. Improved the time taken for attendance by 80%.