Palak Manoranjithan

• Researched the software needs for companies providing Solar Home System in Sub-Saharan Africa. • Defined product features to collect/organize/visualize sales and customers data, including third party integrations specific to the tech ecosystem in Africa. • Mapped the UX and designed the wireframes of the desktop CRM to be used by back office managers, and mobile app to be used by sales agent in rural area. • Recruited the CTO and a frontend engineer to implement the desktop and mobile apps. • Iterated the product based on feedback collected from clients in 6 African countries.

• Architected Accomplice marketing platform to automate and optimize ad campaigns on social media. • Played a pivotal role in product development as being actively involved in product, engineering and customer success teams. • Led the backend engineering team for the integration of Facebook Ads API, Google AdWords API, and Twitter Ads API using Java/Spring/MySQL • Used Machine Learning and NLP to find trending topics and analyze sentiment on Social Media.

Developed programs in Perl to speed up hardware validation in order to meet aggressive deadline of team members. • Heavily automated the verification process of chip and boards. • Implemented the scripts for minimal intervention of the hardware engineers, and reduced by a factor of 10 to 20 the time spent on verification/validation. • Designed and developed GUI using Tk so the hardware engineers have a user friendly interface for the Perl scripts. • Delivered the projects bundled as executables to automatically install Perl and the required libraries on the end user machine, letting the engineers to focus on the core task rapidly.

Developed Fusion Zeta, Exterro’s e-discovery platform to remotely scan, collect and perform data mining on data sources of custodian involved in litigations. • Responsible for core back-end technology development including design, coding, and testing of crawlers capable of processing terabyte of data of hundreds of custodians. • Implemented APIs to interface with Hadoop Distributed File System to store, replicate, and retrieve data. • Integrated Lucene and Solr to index and search collected documents. • Document classification using clustering algorithms and identify near-duplicates. • Data mining on collected documents to perform concept search and enhance the relevance of responses to keyword search. • Optimized Fusion Zeta to be highly scalable, with extensive use of multithreaded processes. • Developed the Web UI using Ajax framework and designed DB for complex queries. Technologies: Java, Hadoop, Lucene/Solr, Cassandra, JSP/Servlet, Ajax, JavaScript, REST Web Service, MS SQL, Hibernate, JBoss, Tomcat, Eclipse, SVN.