DHIVAS SUGUMAR
SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
About Me
Hiya I am Dhivas, a computer science student at Northeastern university and software developer based in Boston. I am currently coding as a full stack web developer for Hackbeanpot, Inc - a boston based hackathon. I am particularly interested in Mobile App development, cloud computing, and the use of machine learning to percieve and understand human emotion. Outside of school and work I love to hike and travel, read philosophy, and window shop for my next house plant. I would love to connect and chat on any opportunity!
Resume
Education
Undergraduate Degree
Northeastern University | Boston,MA
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Minor in Philosophy
Achievements: Honors College, Honors Scholarship, Deans List
Activities: Hackbeanpot, Code for Community, NU Toastmasters, NU Circle K
SEPT 2020
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PRESENT
High School Diploma
Asian International School | Colombo,Sri Lanka
Edexcel International Advanced Levels
Achievements: Valedictorian 2020, Student Government, ALevel - 3A*s, 1A
SEPT 2003
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JUNE 2020
Work Experience
Core Tech Team
HackBeanpot Inc | Boston, MA
- Engineer an email sender to improve efficiency for outreach when sending personalized emails to multiple recipients by 85%.
- Push 50+ code commits across the internal tools, application portal, main site, and event-day based on Typescript, React.js, Material-UI, and Next.js
- Participate in weekly meetings to make decisions on the technological stack, discuss features, and improve code quality.
- Lead workshops team to develop informative workshops for the hackathon on a wide range of engineering and career topics.
April 2022
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present
Computer Science Professional Development for Co-op Teaching Assistant
Khoury College of Computer Science | Boston, MA
Jan 2023
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present
Full Stack Web-Developer Co-op
Clora | Boston, MA
- Spearheaded initiatives such as consultant suggestions, search results pagination, and Clora rep for projects to improve consultant search by 70% using ElasticSearch.
- Proposed and authored documentation for consultant profile tagging machine learning scripts built using python, scikit-learn, xgboost, and SQL.
- Utilized SQL, Coresignal, AWS, and Rails to implement a REST API to create and/or update consultants in the PostgreSQL database with newly mined consultant profiles.
- Authored 100+ commits to implement new features and maintain Clora's marketplace and internal web applications based on React, Ruby on Rails, and Bootstrap.
- Contributed to 20+ code reviews, architecture decisions, and team processes in Agile scrum sprints.
July 2022
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Dec 2022
Fundamentals of Computer Science 2 Teaching Assistant
Khoury College of Computer Science | Boston, MA
- Lead TA during labs for 40+ students which involved teaching concepts, administering quizzes.
- Held 6+ hours of weekly office hours to teach fundamental programming concepts to students.
- Attended weekly staff meeting with 70 other TAs and instructorsto discuss rubrics, and grading.
Jan 2022
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July 2022
Undergraduate Researcher
Northeastern University MHealth Research Lab | Boston, MA
- Develop script to visualize year of health data gathered from smartwatches, and smartphonesfrom 250 participants .
- Create custom script using python, and libraries such as pandas, and pillow to read and visualize2000+ raw .csv files.
- Conceptualize visually suitable graphs to represent data ranging from accelerometer data to sleepdata.
March 2021
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Nov 2022
Developer Intern
Nations Trust Bank | Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Collaborated with a team of engineers to redesign the user sign in and sign up page.
- Assisted in improving the chatbot on the customer end of the website.
Sept 2019
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Oct 2019
Skills
Programming Languages
Java
Python
Ruby
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Typescript
SQL
R
C
Software Tools
Ruby Mine
Visual Studio Code
Eclipse
PyCharm
IntelliJ
AutoCAD
Microsoft Suite
Adobe Suite
Jupyter Notebook
Heroku
Vercel
Google Cloud
Frameworks & Libraries
React
NextJS
NestJS
Bootstrap
Material UI
Framer Motion
Ruby on Rails
pandas
pillow
scikit learn
Projects
Minerva
Developed full-stack web application using the MVC design pattern that enables users to create and enroll in text and video-based courses.- Implemented user validation model, as well as database level validations for forms. Developed full-stack web application using the MVC design pattern that enables users to create and enroll in text and video-based courses.
- Deployed site using Heroku and Google Cloud storage.
Technologies Used
Portfolio
- Develop front end responsive website using Typescipt based React.js with a component driven philosophy.
- Design the layout and style of components for the portfolio site using Figma to simulate the look and feel of the website.
- Utilize Framer Motion, Material UI AND custom styled-components to provide the styling and 3D animation for componets,
Technologies Used
Dataviz
- A python based custom data wrangling and visualization script developed for the Northeastern Mhealth Lab.
- Utilized pandas and numpy to read in 2000+ raw csv files and clean the watch telemtry data.
- Used a custom made visulization scheme built using pillow to vizualize the data.
Technologies Used
Image Editor
- Built image processing application using the MVC design pattern and OOD priniciples.
- Editor is capable of flipping, applying greyscale, sepia, mosaic on an image. Supports multipe image formats, and provides a color histogram.
- Designed the UI and implemented it using Java Swing.
- Created a test suite to test functionality and view layout using JUnit.
Technologies Used