Candidates About

Prakhar Kapoor

EDUCATION:

Master of Science in Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Lowell

• GPA: 3.67

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India

• Graduated in the top two percent of students with GPA: 3.5
• Graduated in 2011

TECHNOLOGY SKILLS:

Programming Languages: C++, Python, JAVA

Open Source: OpenGL, OpenCV, FLAR Toolkit, AR Toolkit, IISU SDK (Gesture Recognition), Android Development Kit.

Development Tools: Visual Studio, Adobe Flash4.5, Eclipse, Unity3D, Xcode, Octave, MySQL

Operating System: Mac OS X (Mountain Lion), Windows (XP, 7), Linux

DEVICES USED: Soft Kinetic 3D cam DS311 and DS325, Intel atom Processor, FPGA

EXPERIENCE:

Software GUI Lead Engineer                                                                                                Jan’ 15 - Present

Dassault Systemes

• Developed a library for UI Automation testing.
• Developing widgets for Mechanical scenarios using javascript and C++
• Using Python and Javascript with open source tools like sikuli and sahi
• Code management using SCM
• Familiarity with Gira, Jenkins, SVN
• Experience with Agile and Scrum development
• Created a customized HTML report using HTML testrunner
• Automation has speeded up the release process, more comprehensive bug tracking
• Managing a team of 5 people working on automation in 3 different locations
• Directly reporting to the Director of QA/QE in Dassault Systems
• Taking up the issues to the Director of Widgets Development team in case of bugs
• Actively involved and tracking the software release dates and providing hot fixes and fixed deliverables

iOS Developer                                                                                                                          Aug'14 – Oct '14

UMASS Lowell

• Developed a iOS application to display data of Boston MBTA over a map
• Used Objective C and ArcGIS for development

Android Software Developer                                                                                                May '14 – June '14

WITS Corporation

• Used Java , ADK, MySQL
• Developed an application to extract information of service provider
• Used scrum and Agile methodologies

Software Developer Intern                                                                                       May '13 – Aug ‘13

NABORS Group

• Wrote code for a real-time human simulation using LIDAR sensors
• Worked on designing algorithm for point cloud library used for simulation
• Used C#, Unity 3D, Lua and scrum methodologies

Research Assistant                                                                                                     Oct '13 – May '14

Cornell Cup Project, INTEL

• Developed code for a real-time In-Home Stroke Rehabilitation System- RISE
• Used Point Cloud Library for human detection and joint extraction.
• Also used C++, OpenNI, NITE  with Agile methodologies

Software Developer                                                                                                     Jul ’11 – Jan ‘12

Mixed Reality Studios, UK

·                    Worked on R&D projects of the firm in Bangalore, India

·                    Used C++, OpenCV, OpenGL, AR Toolkit

·                    Developing Augmented Reality Applications using Agile methodologies

Application Developer Intern                                                                                                 Jun ’10 – Jul ’10

Tata Consultancy Services, Bangalore, India

·                    Used C++ to design a file conversion and comparison tool

·                    Used Agile methodologies

PROJECTS

• My portfolio: http://weblab.cs.uml.edu/~pkapoor/

·         A Real time In Home Stroke Rehab System using C++ and Point Cloud Library.

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ACHIEVEMENTS

• Certificate of Appreciation, “Best Performer” from UMASS Lowell Parking Enforcement

·         Certificate of Recognition, "Difference Maker", project on Automated Composter

• Certificate of Appreciation from the founder of the firm ‘Mixed Reality Studios’
• Winner in IEEE Competition on Augmented Reality of Epson, USA

PUBLICATIONS

·         Poster Published in Student Research Symposium in UMASS Lowell on 'Virtual Screen on Hand'

• Paper Published in World Conference on Advances in Communication &Control Systems CACCS-2013Topic : “Marker-less Detection of Virtual Objects using Augmented Reality”