N Praveen Chandhar

Hello, I am N Praveen Chandhar, currently doing my undergraduate (Btech, 3rd Year) in Computer Science and Engineering at NIT Trichy. My interests are in programming, keyboard, violin, chess, reading books, Game of Thrones and Benedict Cumberbatch!.

I am good at learning new things, in a short amount of time. My interests in computer science lie in web development, machine learning, algorithmic programming, automata theory, and Blockchain.

Under web development, I love both front end Web Development and backend Web Development equally. I was a lead front end designer for a couple of official websites of my college. (Do check out od.nitt.edu, the other one, orientation.nitt.edu is down) which were developed with ReactJS ). I have some expertise with the ReactJS, AngularJS, Bootstrap and UI-KIT.

The backend development languages I am comfortable with, are Python (Flask/Django/Tornado), NodeJS/MongoDB (Express), PHP/MySQL (Laravel) and GoLang.(gin-gonic)

I am part of a R&D club in our institute, called Spider, where we primarily involve in R&D projects. We also mentor a group of freshers and get them interested in the world of R & D. The club handles various portfolios - I am part of the web Development portfolio. The Web Development portfolio of our club handles admin projects of the institute. I usually work with the React+ Django stack. We also sit together and do hobby projects in R&D that primarily involve machine learning, blockchain, etc.

Some of the admin projects - On-Duty application (to eliminate paperwork) portal developed using react and Django, Our club inductions site developed using Flutter+Golang, Our college sports fest backend developed using nodeJS/FireBase) reside in private repositories because they are admin projects. If you're interested in taking a look at them, I'll gladly add you as a contributor in Gitlab (We are migrating to GitLab currently) so that you can check the stats.

Under machine learning, I completed a course offered by Stanford University on Coursera and ventured into the world of computer vision. I keep myself occupied with hobby projects that involve face recognition, template matching, etc. (Check out my GitHub profile!!!)
I am an active participator in codechef, codeforces, hackerrank etc and I usually place under top 10 in my college coding competitions hosted online, conducted by my institute.
I am really fascinated with the applications of technology in the past, present and in the future. I want to contribute something to the world we live in, to make the world a better place, and this is what motivates me. I want to be part of the group that drives the society forward. I want to add value to the society that has shaped me, that is responsible for my holistic development.

A project that I want to talk about, is what I am currently doing as a Software Engineer Intern, at Rubrik. We are creating a test log standardisation utility that will integrate logs of all different test runners into a single interface with advanced filtering options. The intern is currently ongoing.

The most complex project I have worked on was part of the research internship at IGCAR, Kalpakkam (Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research), where we (me and my mentor) built an information retrieval system from scratch and optimized it for deployment using Tornado. Some salient features of the system include: Parallel Read, Text summarization, tfidf indexing, BM scores were some of the metrics tested and some the libraries used were multiprogramming, gensim, keras, tesseract, PyPDF, etc.
The code could not be made public. If there are any clarifications, I can share you the code privately. (My telegram handle: t.me/gigatesseract )

• Bee-bots:- A set of robots that are programmed to cooperate with each other using swarm-based algorithms inspired by nature, to accomplish a common objective like building basic structures, detecting the color ratio of the floor, etc. We were in simulations phase last year. Our paper got accepted in ICCAR 2020.
  I have had exposure to how swarm algorithms work and how robots can be designed to cooperate. I believe their applications are wide-reaching, from construction to healthcare.

The experience one can gain from a hackathon is invaluable. It pushes the limits of the brain and greatly increases productivity levels. Hackathon is the best medium to find a solution for real-life problems, and I am super excited just to apply for the hackathon. The peer-group in the hackathon is one of the bests in India (and the world), and I believe by implementing a solution to a real-world problem, one actually gets to appreciate the gravity of the problem and then realize how important the solution for the problem is. Hackathons are also platforms for out of the box innovations that can carry the society forward, as well. Hackathons add value to people and society, and I want to keep giving back to society what it has given me.