Agastya Dev

6383467769 · devagastya0@gmail.com

Strongly motivated and driven by a passion to deliver.


Experience

Intern

Itus Capital

Building an internal application for portfolio management. Uses stock fundamentals to construct portfolios and subsequently analyses their performance periodically.


Dec 2020 - Present

Technology Lead

WeUnlearn

Implementation of NLP based technology solution – WULU to improve gender attitudes in adolescents from low-income families in India.


Current project with ~1200 children, initial pilots with ~100 children where 80% children found the solution to be effective.


Received grant worth $5000 from Harvard Kennedy School,selected in social impact team at Harvard Innovation Labs 2021


Wulu ranked 3rd Stanford Design Challenge 2021 out of 223 submissions from 37 countries.

July 2020 - Present

Intern

CloudNow Technologies

Designed and developed social distancing feature within their AKKU BCOR product using Facebook’s Open Source state-of-the-art object detection library.


Technology stack: Python, Detectron2, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform, Docker

July 2020 - August 2020

Education

SASTRA University, Tanjore

Bachelor of Technology
Electronics and Communications Engineering - 3rd year
July 2018 - Present

The PSBB Millennium School, Gerugambakkam

Secondary and Higher Secondary Schooling
June 2010 - April 2018

Projects

Portfolio Management Solution


Building an internal application for portfolio management. Uses stock fundamentals to construct portfolios and subsequently analyses their performance periodically.


Technology stack: Python, Detectron2, MySQL, Google Cloud Platform, Docker

Dec 2020 - Present

WULU


Developed a web application and a chatbot to engage with kids in an interactive and universally available solution.

  • Pilot 1 - Utilised AWS services and Docker technology to speed up and automate deployment.
  • Pilot 2 - Applied CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins. Incorporated Infrastructure As Code(IaC) in the form of Terraform to initialise AWS infrastructure.
  • Pilot 3 - Utilised Glific(open source, two-way communication platform) as SaaS for scalability and faster deployment to design a solution for the Stanford Longevity Design Challenge 2021.

  • Technology stack: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery, Postgres, Python, Docker, Terraform, Vault, Django, Rasa(NLP/NLU), Jenkins

    July 2020 - Present

    Succinct.ly


    Chrome Extension that summarises the contents of a webpage. Uses BERT NLP models to summarise text. Tf-Idf technique is used to cluster the summary sentences according to similarity. Topic handling is performed using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to identify topics in clusters.

    Allows for various models to summarise texts such as scientific texts. Multi-lingual support to be added.

    Application deployed using Docker and Docker-Compose.

    Technology stack: Python, Docker, NLP, Flask

    Jan 2021 - Present

    Nesamani


    Application which helps users pitch ideas and projects to a social forum. The application helps ideators connect with prospective teammates.

    Uses a Flask backend and a react frontend.

    Implemented a DevOps pipeline using GitHub actions for automating infrastructure handling, Kubernetes deployment and application security.

    Technology stack: Python, Docker, React JS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Cloud Platform

    Feb 2021 - Present

    Akku BCOR


    AKKU BCOR (Business Continuity Operational Resilience) product deals in highly customisable solutions that can help you streamline your people-intensive operations through automation, integration, and real-time monitoring.


    Worked on social distancing feature in AKKU BCOR product. The feature used deep learning models to identify humans in a frame to calculate distance between them. In the event of distance being less than a threshold, the feature highlights the lapse and stores it for analysis.


    Technology stack: Python, MySQL, Detectron2, Google Cloud Platform

    Dec 2020 - Present

    Skills

    Programming Languages & Tools

    • Python

    • Django

    • Java

    • AWS

    • Google Cloud Platform

    • Jenkins

    • Docker

    • Kubernetes

    • Postgres

    • MySQL

    • Hashicorp Terraform

    • Hashicorp Vault

    • Machine Learning

    • Data Science and Visualisation


    Interests

    Apart from being a programmer, I enjoy creative writing. I was the winner of Tata LitLive Fest 2019-MyStory competition and also the winner of 'A Musing Tale' in Instincts Cultural Fest 2020 of SSN. I also won 'Words and Beyond' held by Alfaaz, The literary society of USME, DTU.