Sidharth Rai

 (+91) 94158-20303 |   sidharthrai.office@gmail.com

Associate System Engineer at IBM
I am Specialized in Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence and Web Development.


Experience

Associate System Engineer- Microsoft BizTalk Developer

(Full-Time)

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.  

Assigned on a project as a Microsoft BizTalk Developer.

Bengaluru, Karnataka

Jan 2021 - Present

Software Development Engineer (SDE)

(Part-Time + Remote)

Allied Lawyers FZE  

Working as research and development associate to build applications empowered with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

June 2020 - December 2020

Web Developer

(Part-time + Remote)

Aaj Express Dgtl News  

Retained 2k+ users daily. Designed and hosted their website single handedly, managed daily updates, Ads and SEO. Also, managed Social Media (Facebook, Twitter & Youtube).

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Apr 2020 - May 2020

JR. Web Developer

(Part-time + Remote)

News Lab 24  

Performed day to day maintenance tasks like minor updates, responsive testing and monitored for threats and attacks.

Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh

Mar 2020 - Apr 2020

Algo Trading

(Intern + Remote)

Tecnovix

Developed and deployed an algorithmic trading application for cryptocurrency trading. Performed day to day tasks in Brazilian Timezone with regular reporting to my manager.

Sao Paulo, Brazil

Jan 2019 - Mar 2019

Graphic Design

(Intern + Remote)

Eventzerz

Designed different promotional graphics like posters, banners and also gave my input in the promotional activities.

Chandigarh

Aug 2018 - Jan 2019

Internshala Student Partner

(Intern + Remote)

Internshala

Encouraged students from my university and others as well to join internshala’s paid courses and at the same time was able to convince them to sponsor some of the university's events.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Aug 2018 - Jan 2019

Technical Analyst & Stock Broker

(Intern)

Stock Holdings Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL)

Performed time-series data analysis of the stock market for trend identification, convinced customers to invest in bullish stocks.

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Jun 2018 - Jul 2018

Education

Chandigarh University

Mohali, Punjab

Bachelor of Engineering
Computer Science - Specilization in Cloud Computing (IBM)
Aug 2016 - May 2020
Full-time

Sunbeam English School

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

XII (Senior Secondary) / CBSE
Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics
Apr 2014 - Mar 2015
Full-time

Sunbeam English School

Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

X (Secondary) / CBSE
Apr 2012 - Mar 2013
Full-time

Publication

Strategic: Risk, Return and Technical Analysis of Stock Market

Publication: SSRN – Elsevier Digital Library

Performed data analysis on historical stock data and made a model with the help of support vector machine and particle swarm optimization to predict stock market prices which came out about 85% accurate.

Presented @ SUSCOM 2019, Amity University Jaipur.
Published on Feb 25, 2019

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Patent

Design and development of de-smogging framework for Intelligent Transport System

Patent Application Number (PAN): 201911036469

“SMOG ELIMINATION SYSTEM AND METHOD"

The present invention relates to the field of image reorganization technology. More specifically, the present invention relates to a system and a method for elimination smog from images.

Issued on September 10, 2020

Badges & Certifications

Badges from  
Industrial Trainings from Telecommunications Consultants of India Limited (TCIL)
  • Data Science
  • Cloud Computing
Virtual Training
  • Deep Learning with Tensorflow from IBM Cognitive Class
  • Deep Learning Fundamentals from IBM Cognitive Class
  • Machine Learning from Stanford University on Coursera
  • AWS Fundamentals: Going Cloud Native by Amazon on Coursera
  • Software & System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) by IBM on Brighter Blue
  • Testing by IBM on Brighter Blue
  • Rational Database Management System (RDBMS) by IBM on Brighter Blue
  • Structured Query Language (SQL) by IBM on Brighter Blue
Capabilities assessed by Aspiring Minds through AMCAT
  • Data Processing Analyst
  • Business Analyst
  • Software Development Trainee
  • Business Consultant
  • English Compression

Projects

Ritten - The Blog  

Objective: A platform to write anything anonymously.

Description: Application hosted over Python Anywhere Cloud Services, user logs in and writes the content, accordingly. Privacy of user is maintained.

Language/ Framework used: Python, Flask, SQL Alchemy.

Feb 2020 - Mar 2020

Text Semantics Analysis  

Objective: Breakdown input text to its semantics.

Description: Cloud-based serviced Algorithmia API, used over input texts for generating Taxonomies, Automatic Tags, Entities, Document Similarity Index, Part of Speech Tagging (POS), Tokenizing, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) (for topic discovery), Sentiment analysis. Tested the application over RSS feeds and my research paper.

Language/ Framework used: Python, Algorithmia, LDA.

May 2019 – Jun 2019

Mouse control using face movements  

Objective: This Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lets the user use computers mouse from face movements.

Description: Created a computer vision application where user can squint, wink, move their head around and open their mouth (to say “Yes” or “OK”).

Language/ Framework used: Python, OpenCV, dlib.

Mar 2019 – Apr 2019

Algorithmic pair trading

Objective: Data analysis of correlated stocks & crypto currencies and when to go long and short on them.

Description: Created an automated backtesting system that updated fields in the database to sell or buy highly correlated stocks & cryptos. Internship project for TechnoVix, Sao Paolo, Brazil

Language/ Framework used: Python, Pandas, MySQLdb, Binance.

Jan 2019 – Mar 2019

Drowsiness detection  

Objective: A computer vision application, alerting vehicle driver on feeling drowsy.

Description: Designed a retina following system which follows the eye movements through streaming frames, sets alarms when eyes are closed/winked for a longer interval than usual.

Language/ Framework used: Python, Google Collaboratory, dlib, OpenCV, VideoStream.

Mar 2019

Smart Mirror

Objective: Integrated Artificial Intelligent chat assistant - web application.

Description: Created a smart panel that notifies time, weather and location with the help of API’s, voice-enabled chat assistant can greet and book appointment upon user’s request. Project was funded by IBM.

Language/ Framework used: Python, Flask, Chatterbot.

Feb 2019 – Mar 2019

Supply chain forecasting  

Objective: Decomposition of market data, analyzing a trend, noise, season and the cycle of a supply chain in time-series data.

Description: Incorporated moving averages, seasonality ratio, analyzed trend (used fitting method) and trend-cycle and forecasted the trend using regression prediction. Integrated seasonality index, average noise, and trend forecast to get the full forecast.

Language/ Framework used: Python, LinearRegression.

Feb 2019

Blockchain simulation using python  

Objective: Create, Update and Validate a blockchain.

Description: Designed a simulation of blockchain, user can add a new block, tamper the chain by adding independent chains that could be validated using previous hash values.

Language/ Framework used: Python, hashlib.

Jan 2019

Risk, Return, Regression and Technical analysis of stock prices  

Description: Developed using different python modules (like SVM). Also, Implemented a Particle Swarm Optimisation technique. Used different Technical Analysis Indicators for incorporating better prediction with an accuracy score of about 92%.

Language/ Framework used: Python, sci-kit learn - Support Vector Machine, Pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib.

Jun 2018 – Jan 2019

Twitter - Robotic stock market advisory  

Objective: Twitter-based Stock Market prediction using sentiment analysis.

Description: Generated insights of queried tweets in real-time, incorporated a crawler that fetched tweets and analyzed sentiments to give out predictions for the Stock Market.

Language/ Framework used: Python, Tweepy, Pandas, textblob.

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019

Obstacle avoiding self-driving car  

Objective: Arduino-based self-driving car, avoids obstacles.

Description: Incorporated an ultrasonic sensor that identifies the obstacle. Thereafter, automatically sends a signal to the motor driver to change direction.

Language/ Framework used: C, Arduino Uno R3, Ultrasonic Sensor HC-504, L298N Motor Driver, HC-05 Bluetooth Module.

Nov 2018 – Dec 2018

Progressive Web App Calculator  

Objective: Progressive Calculator works smartly and offline, optimised to take only a few KB of space on the user device, which is too less than your native application. Downloaded via a prompt for "Add to home screen".

Description: Designed an advanced web-app, with service workers files and contents are downloaded in the user's device allowing to use the app in offline mode.

Language/ Framework used: JavaScript, Lighthouse, HTML, CSS.

May 2018 – Jun 2018

Private Cloud

Objective: FTP enabled over IIS 6.0 on Windows Server R2 2008.

Description: With the help of Microsoft server configured DHCP, DNS, ADDS to make and understand private networks.

Environment used: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 7, Kali Linux.

Apr 2018 – May 2018

Akhbaar

Objective: A news blog, WordPress website over EC2 console.

Description: Created an RSS feed grabber plugin for this website, that automatically publishes current feeds into a post on the website.

Language/ Framework used: Python, EC2.

Feb 2019 – Mar 2019

Volunteer Experience

President

Cloud Ken Club
Apex Institute of Technology, Chandigarh University
Jun 2018 - May 2020

Class Representative

Training & Placement Program
Department of Career Planning & Development, Chandigarh University
Jun 2018 - May 2020

Skills

Technical Skills
Major Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services
Industry Requirements Technical Analysis (Stock Market), Data Analysis
Programming Skills Python, C++
Database Languages SQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
Technologies IBM Watson, GitHub
Website Development HTML , CSS , Bootstrap , WordPress
Graphic Design (Adobe) Illustrator, Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects
Skills Working Upon
  • Cloud Computing
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Deep Learning

Interests

Apart from sitting on my desk, I prefer to read books. I always take out time to water plants and do gardening. Photography and Music fascinate me. Cleaning my belongings also remains on my task list every other day.

People ask for my advices regarding business and stock market. I adore a disciplined lifestyle influnced by a defence family background.


Awards & Achievements

  • 10th Place - Hackoverflow 2.0 Hackathon, Organized by Geeks for Geek @ National Level - 2019
  • Cleared 4/5 Rounds - Tecnoutsav'19, Organized by Deolite @ National Level - 2019
  • 4th Place - Technex'14 Science Exhibition Organized by IIT BHU, Varanasi # National Level - 2014
  • 1st Place - Radio Jockey Competion Organized by Sunbeam English School, Bhagwanpur - 2011