Sudharsan K A

I'm a software engineer as well as a graphic designer who is interested in making clean and user intuitive softwares. The desire to learn new things and help people to ease their everyday lives in even the smallest way drives me to develop new applications. I wouldn't say this to be the most complex project I've worked on till now, but I'd say this as the most experience gaining project for me. The first time I ever worked in web dev was to when I had to create a website with both front and back end and get it running in a matter of few days. I used Node.Js and Express with MongoDB in the backend and HTML + CSS + JQuery in the front end. Since it was the first ever time I was working with them, the learning curve was extremely steep for me. The website was for a film festival competition (https://www.rollingreels.festember.com). It included modules like register, login, dashboard where they could upload details about their short film including the film poster. As far as the most complex project I've worked on, I'd say I'm currently working on it. It is basically a video classifier that detects suspicious activity in videos. The classifier takes in a video as an input and outputs whether the video is safe/suspicious. This could be integrated along with a cctv camera software that feeds in live video to the classifier and if a suspicious video is detected, the user can be notified and necessary action can be taken. The classifier contains two neural networks. The first one uses Google’s pre-trained model Inception to apply the technique of transfer learning and extract the high-level features of the video frames and later uses a recurrent neural network to classify the video as safe or suspicious. From the first project, the website, I learnt a lot of things. I almost learnt the entire structure of a web project, how they work, etc. I learnt how sessions and cookies work. More importantly, I learnt how to manage time and finish them within time. From the second project, I learnt the technique of transferred learning wherein models which are pre trained can be used to decrease the time to train our customised model. I think I am a great candidate to be a part of your hackathon as I have experience in both Development and Design. I try to innovate and develop new softwares. I am a fast learner and can manage time well. Last but not the least, I have attended 2 hackathons before, namely InOut 4.0 and Pragyan Hackathon and had wonderful experiences ath both of them and I would really want to experience it again.