Shamika Kumar(she/her)

Computer Science Engineer

About me

I am a highly skilled and experienced Computer Science graduate with a dynamic personality and an ability to excel in team environments. I seek to pursue a challenging career and be a part of a progressive organisation providing scope for improvement in knowledge and skills.

Projects

Stock Trading App

(Coursework Project for CSCI571 - Web Technologies)
Tech stack: Android(Java), Angular, Node.js, Google Cloud Platform
  • Built a real-time stock trading app for web and mobile devices
  • Programmed features including search autocomplete, view and favorite stocks, buy/sell stocks, manage portfolio, view live stock charts
  • View app demo
Note: Source code will be made available to potential employers upon request

SmartBrain

Tech stack: React.js, Node.js, Express.js, PostgreSQL
  • Designed a responsive image recognition full stack web app, detects human faces in an input image
  • Implemented user account creation, authentication
  • View the frontend and backend source code

Generating novel videos assisted by background-foreground panorama analysis

(Coursework Project for CSCI576 - Multimedia System Design)
Tech stack: Python, OpenCV
  • Processed and extracted foreground objects in video frames, generated background panorama
  • Experimented with intermediary outputs for various applications- motion trail, new time synchronized video, recreating original video removing one foreground object
Note: Source code will be made available to potential employers upon request

lakeFs Project(open source)

  • Contributed 300+ lines of code, including UI modifications and bug fixes in React.js
  • View my individual contributions on github
  • Recognized on the company blog as a contributor to core project features

BlendIn

(Coursework Project for CSCI526 - Advanced Mobile Devices and Game Consoles)
Tech stack: Unity, Unity Analytics, C#
  • Collaborated with a team of 10 to develop color matching platformer game
  • Contributed to game level design and implementation of Levels 1 and 4
  • Introduced checkpoint and player respawn feature
  • Investigated user play data using Unity Analytics and used it to improve player retention
  • Play the WebGL build
Note: Source code will be made available to potential employers upon request

Work

Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

Software Engineer Intern - Checkr Inc.

  • Developed a greenfield React.js web app to dynamically build out data collection forms for candidate background checks in foreign countries, eliminating development cycles and allowing company to scale without engineering investment
  • Demonstrated test-driven development by writing functional and unit tests in Jest
  • Led Auth0 integration to enable role-based access to app functionalities
  • Collaborated cross-team with infrastructure,platform teams to deploy app using Gitlab CI/CD
Jun 2018 – Jul 2021

Staff Cloud Engineer - Oracle

  • Automated course upload of 2000+ courses to customer Learning Cloud system, through HCM and File Server integrations, saving 150+ hours of manual effort
  • Planned and led migration efforts to newer Oracle Integration cloud second generation platform for 3 enterprise accounts
  • Coordinated with a team of 3 on a live project in development and testing of 10+ cloud integrations with customer internal systems, Oracle Database and Oracle ERP
  • Collaborated with cloud architects, customers and stakeholders to implement cloud integration solutions for 50+ customers

Education

Aug 2021 - May 2023

Master of Science, Computer Science

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
GPA: 3.77

Relevant Coursework: Analysis of Algorithms, Database Systems, Web Technologies, Multimedia System Design

Aug 2014 – May 2018

Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, India
Graduated First Class with Distinction, GPA: 3.7

Skills

Languages: Java, Javascript

Frontend: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, React.js

Backend: Node.js, Express.js, REST API, XML, JSON, SQL

Tools and Technologies: Jira, Git, Cloud Computing, Application Integration

Activities

  • Member of Madhatter Knits - knit 10 beanies till date, donated to 2 hospital NICUs in LA
  • Volunteer with USC Volunteer center - aided in packing and distributing staff appreciation kits for 200+ staff