Hi! I am Vishalaksh.

Meticulous researcher, architect and coder having various software products built from scratch. Currently developing a contextual search and recommendation platform at magicpin. Proficient in designing systems at scale using AI and data mining techniques on mobile and web platforms. Having a diverse experience in organisations at different scale- IBM Research, Qualcomm and a startup (Creapptic).
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Patent & Publications

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Applications created

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Awards won

Experience

Technical Lead, magicpin

2018 - Current

Creating a new scalable search framework with high performance. Using machine learning techniques to build a context aware and personalised search experience. Developed recommendations systems like "people you may know" and "recommended deals for you".

Cofounder & CEO, Creapptic Technologies

2016 - 2018

Creapptic Technologies brought 7 years of experience in Mobile and Web application development and designing with its team. Also created a product called Communitify. It was a platform which helped businesses build communities around their products and services. My role spanned from hiring to business development to coding.

Research Software Engineer, IBM Research

2014 - 2016

Solved compliance related problems in Cognitive Finance group. Had also driven Smarter Cities and Information Management agenda of IBM. Have multiple publications and patents for the same.

Software Intern, Qualcomm

Summer 2013

Summer Intern at Qualcomm on ‘MPQPlayerApp’ in which Digital Video Broadcasting feature was added to existing app in Android TV.

Undergraduate Student, IIT (BHU), Varanasi

2010 - 2014

Graduated from Department of Electrical Engineering with Special Mention award for coding activities. Have also led the tech team of college. Published several apps during this time on Google Play.

Skills

AI & Data Mining

Machine learning

Natural Language Processing

Data visualization

Scalable Systems

Search & Recommendation systems

Application backend systems

Applications

Web- MEAN stack

Mobile- Android, iOS

Projects

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Universal Search
Created a context aware and personalised search. It searches across multiple entities like merchants, people, locations.

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People You May Know
Created a recommendation system which suggests people that you may want to follow based on your social network connections.
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Communitify
Private dashboards for communitify admins.

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City Explorer
This full client side AngularJS webapp compares and ranks cities in a developing country using open data.

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Happy Accidents (iOS)
Location based networking platform. It enables professionals to discover, connect and engage with each other.

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Happy Accidents (Android)
Location based networking platform. It enables professionals to discover, connect and engage with each other.

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Technex
This a the official app for 'Technex', the annual tech-fest of IIT (BHU), Varanasi.

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WordStock
WordStock is a home screen widget, which helps in improving user’s vocabulary.

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Linear Optimization
This app solves the linear optimization problems using primal simplex method and dual simplex method.

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TagIT
TagIT takes an image, and tags comments on different locations of that image using text, audio, video or a picture.

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Bharat Khoj (Discover India)
Bharat Khoj shows tourist events to people planning a trip. It also shows analytics about their likely experience there.

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Mobile Optometrist
The app measures eyesight using a smartphone and Scheiner's Disk.
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Barometer Ranking
It shows relative ranking of the selected district with respect to the districts on two extremes (highest and lowest number of crime).

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Bharat Khoj
This webapp is the web interface of Bharat Khouj mobile app.

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Whatsapp chat analyser
A JavaScript app which provides various analytics based on Whatsapp chat. The user privacy is maintained as nothing is uploaded onto the server!

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Xonix
Xonix game for Android using hand gestures.

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Linear Optimization Pro
The pro version of Linear Optimization app uses primal simplex, dual simplex and 2 phase simplex method to solve optimization problems.
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Temporal Change in Graph
This visualization tracks change in graph with time.
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Clustering of nodes
This visualization groups nodes using convex hull method and also highlights anomolous nodes.
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Qualitative and temporal view of skills
This visualises skills based on expertise and interest. It also shows the usage of those skills at different times.

Contact

vishalaksh@gmail.com

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