Karthik V.

Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Aug 2018 – May 20199 months

Served as a Teaching Assistant for the Fall 2018 CSCI 1133: Introduction to Python course, and the Spring 2019 CSCI 1113: Intro to C++ course. Responsible for grading homeworks, assignments and tests. Responsible for conducting weekly lab sessions. Responsible for conducting office hours to help students enrolled in the course.

Student Data Analyst

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

Oct 2017 – Dec 201814 months

Responsible for Calculating the University's Greenhouse Gas Emissions inventory by sourcing, and calculating the performing statistical and variance analyses on various data points. Responsible for mapping out the University's overall Carbon footprint and tracking it's performance in comparison with other Universities and our own sustainability goals. Handles coordination on sourcing best methods for calculating emissions by working with various internal departments, other campuses in the University of Minnesota System, and other Universities within the Big10 and beyond. Also handle the University's triennial AASHE STARS Report (Currently rated Gold by AASHE), and the annual SecondNature…

iOS DevOps Engineer

IBM

Jun – Aug 20172 months

Interned as a part of the Apple + IBM MobileFirst for iOS team Built applications to improve Defect Analysis using various open-source NLP/Machine Learning libraries and the Agile development process. Also designed Python programs to validate the testing data generated by the DevOps team using the IBM Watson API. Application reduced validation time from a week to a few minutes, and had an accuracy of 72%, up from 50% prior to its use.

Assistant

The University of Akron

May 2016 – May 201712 months

Student assistant in the Akron Polymer Technology Services (APTS) department. Managed a Microsoft Access SQL database for data entry, validation and modification for student enrollment for short courses held at the APTS. Responsible for book-keeping, purchasing and auditing expenses related to short courses. Was able to reduce expenses associated with course supplies by 40% by analyzing the most and least used resources. Responsible for creating text-books based on instructors' notes and migrating hand-written documents to digital presentations.

iOS Engineer

Snyxius Technologies is now part of First Tek

Feb – Jun 20154 months

Developed multiple iOS games for the iPhone using Xcode using Objective-C. Created a new keyboard platform for iOS using Swift. Wrote technical articles for internal resources within the company as well as Search-Engine-Optimized blog posts on Snyxius’ website.