Piyush Bajaj

Piyush Bajaj

San Francisco Bay Area
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About

Currently working as a Software Development Engineer at FireEye. I am a computer science…

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Experience

  • FireEye, Inc. Graphic

    FireEye, Inc.

    San Francisco Bay Area

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    San Francisco Bay Area

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    Bangalore, India

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    Gurgaon, India

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    Bangalore, India

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    Bangalore

Education

  • San José State University Graphic

    San Jose State University

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    Activities and Societies: Got accepted to University of Michigan's MHacks X, Rice University's HackRice and University of California Santa Barbara's SB Hacks IV.

    Started my graduate journey with exciting and challenging Cloud Computing, User Interface/HCI Design and Database System Principles courses.

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    The aim of the Microsoft Summer School was to introduce students and researchers to important new areas and to provide a forum for Indian and international researchers to interact. It was focused on Machine Learning and its application to Big Data.

    One of 90 fellows selected from thousands of applications (~4% acceptance rate) for Microsoft Research India Summer School 2015.

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    Activities and Societies: Bangalore Institute Of Technology, Technoholix Club, Google Student's Club

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Volunteer Experience

  • Microsoft Graphic

    Judge, Imagine Cup - Break Into Code

    Microsoft

    - 3 months

    Education

    I was one of the Judges to review some of the submissions of the Microsoft Imagine's Break Into Code challenge which is a beginner level challenge that will get young students excited about coding even if they don’t have any previous experience.

  • Technoholix Club Graphic

    Co-Founder and Technical Lead

    Technoholix Club

    - 1 year 1 month

    Education

    Technoholix is the official club of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering @BIT
    Began a group to create the first 24 hours student-run hackathon ever held at BIT.
    Responsible for developing and maintaining the club website and part of core committee in making the decision for the welfare of the club. Plan events and workshops to increase social interaction among Club members, as well as events to foster the spirit of computer science at BIT.

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    Organiser

    Microsoft

    - 1 year 3 months

    Education

    Had a hands on experience in organizing the Microsoft Research India's annual research symposium TechVista. Had the opportunity to meet and acquire knowledge from people of Microsoft. Had a good experience in management of events.

  • Volunteer - Cloud 20/20 V7

    Unisys India

    - 1 month

    Education

  • Techfest, IIT Bombay Graphic

    Campus Representative

    Techfest, IIT Bombay

    - 1 year 1 month

    Education

    Promoting technical, educational events and competitions of the Techfest, IIT Bombay.

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    Campus Ambassador

    HackerEarth

    - 1 year 2 months

    Education

    Organized and coordinated HackerEarth events in our college with the help of my juniors and spread awareness about the HackerEarth challenges online.

  • Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kanpur Graphic

    Campus Representative

    Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kanpur

    - 1 year 1 month

    Education

    Serve as a Strategic Link between my college and E-Cell IIT Kanpur and work closely with the team of E-Cell, IITK.
    Help in the Publicity of their Business Plan Competitions and Entrepreneurship Summit 2014.

Courses

  • Advanced Computer Architectures

    10CS74

  • C# Programming and .Net

    10CS761

  • Compiler Design

    10CS63

  • Computer Graphics and Visualization

    10CS65

  • Computer Networks - I

    10CS55

  • Computer Networks - II

    10CS64

  • Computer Organization

    10CS46

  • Data Structures with C

    10CS35

  • Database Management Systems

    10CS54

  • Database System Principles

    CS 257

  • Design and Analysis of Algorithms

    10CS43

  • Embedded Computing Systems

    10CS72

  • Formal Languages and Automata Theory

    10CS56

  • Information and Network Security

    10CS835

  • Java and J2EE

    10CS753

  • Management and Entrepreneurship

    10AL61

  • Microprocessors

    10CS45

  • Object Oriented Programming with C++

    10CS36

  • Object-Oriented Modeling and Design

    10CS71

  • Operating Systems

    10CS53

  • Operations Research

    10CS661

  • Programming the Web

    10CS73

  • Services Oriented Architecture

    10CS844

  • Software Architectures

    10IS81

  • Software Engineering

    10IS51

  • System Modeling and Simulation

    10CS82

  • Systems Software

    10CS52

  • Topics In Artificial Intelligence

    CS 256

  • Topics in Cloud Computing

    CS218

  • Topics in Database System - Data Mining and Big Data

    CS267

  • Unix System Programming

    10CS62

  • Unix and Shell Programming

    10CS44

  • User Interface and Design

    CS252

Projects

  • Zomato NexTable Web App

    The project was to developed a drawing tool for the restaurant owners to design and setup their tables’ arrangements. Front-end functionality was designed mainly using JQuery, AJAX and SVG and back-end with PHP and MySQL.

  • Balloons Burster - Windows 8.1 Store Application

    This is an engagement game where one can earn points by shooting the balloons in a given timeframe. The app is developed using latest web technologies and Win JS.

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  • Technoholix CSE Club Website

    The project was to design & develop and maintain our college Computer Science & Engg club website which can be used by club members to access various resources and materials and keep updated with various events and workshops which are conducted by the club.

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  • Discussion Platform – Customized Stack Overflow

    The project was to build a discussion forum for the employees to seek help of their colleagues, mentors and their senior members in their respective technology fields. The work includes PHP as its core using the MVC architecture in CodeIgniter Framework.

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  • OnlineBazaar

    I designed a Quotation Management System for products in a market for a given customer/s considering various stakeholders and entities in the system using PHP CodeIgniter Framework for SureWaves Hackathon 2014.

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  • Faces of BIT - Campus Connect

    The project was to develop a social networking site designed to help students to get to know other students on our campus. The idea was centred on students liking and commenting on each other photos making interaction happen in a more fun way. The site is developed from scratch using PHP, JS, and HTML5 & CSS3. All web data was store on MYSQL

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  • Hola – Find your friend

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    Creating a web-app where a user can register via Facebook and view neighboring friends in real time over a Google Map interface. The user can narrow search results based on various input parameters.
    Used JavaScript, MongoDB, REST, Google Map API, Facebook Graph API v2.10.

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  • BDaaS - Farm IoT data processing and analytics

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    Designing a Big data as a Service framework where we can do real-time data stream processing of plant’s health via green color index and growth rate. It provides statistical analysis to predict for any plants diseases from its data. Used Node.js, Spark, MongoDB, Python, AWS, Tableau, ML.

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  • Mars Rover – 3D Object Manipulator

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    Built a direct manipulation interface for selection, navigation and manipulation of the mars rover on a 3D Martian terrain model. Used open Frameworks and C++.

  • Driver Sleep Detection System

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    As part of my thesis project, I designed a monitoring system in Matlab which processes the video input to indicate the current driving aptitude of the driver and warning alarm is raised based on eye blink and mouth yawning rate if driver is fatigue. It is implemented using Viola-Jones and Sobel techniques for facial features detection.

    Other creators
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Honors & Awards

  • Winner, Massively Empowered Classrooms (MEC) Challenge

    Microsoft Research

    "Massively Empowered Classrooms" is a research project designed to bring the highest quality classroom material to every undergraduate engineering student in India. During the MEC Challenge, I was one of the lead contributors in spreading awareness about the program in our campus as well as in the online communities.

  • Winner, Microsoft Women in Tech Initiative

    Microsoft

    Microsoft aims to inspire women to play an active role in technology. Microsoft Women in Tech is the stage to explore the world of technology. During the Microsoft Women in Tech Initiative campaign, I played a vital role in training female students through Microsoft Virtual Academy courses for Women Empowerment.

  • Winner, SureWaves Hackathon

    SureWaves Pvt Ltd.

    Winner at 36 hours hackathon organised by SureWaves Pvt. Ltd. in which I designed a Quotation Management System for products and customers and got an Internship Offer.

Test Scores

  • TOEFL iBT

    Score: 102

    Reading: 27
    Listening: 26
    Speaking: 23
    Writing: 26

  • IIT JEE

    Score: 189

Languages

  • English

    Professional working proficiency

  • Hindi

    Professional working proficiency

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    “Piyush is a great web developer with an insightful knowledge to different web technologies such as Java, HTML, and Javascript. He is a great person to work with and getting the job/task at hand done. I have even seen him stay late or work late on bugs and vulnerabilities. I would recommend him for any web developer role.”

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