I love working on problems related to Data Engineering and Data Science. I also like to dabble a bit in finance/stock markets and learning to combine the two! I also have a background in Security and Information retrieval and integration. I'm a recent USC Grad, working with Microsoft in the Analytics Platform Systems(APS)/Parallel Datawarehouse (PDW) team. PDW is an appliance bundled, scale-out (MPP) version of SQL Server. Co-founding a startup and having held multiple leadership roles through my academic life, have given me necessary leadership and people skills, and refined my decision making and execution ability.

Software Engineer @ Parallel Datawarehouse (PDW) / Analytics Platform System (APS). PDW is an appliance bundled, scale-out (MPP) version of SQL Server. For more info about PDW/MPP: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dataplatforminsider/archive/2014/07/30/transitioning-from-smp-to-mpp-the-why-and-the-how.aspx From June 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) Aliso ViejoIntern @ • Working on the Ruby on Rails backend with Information Retrieval and scrapping modules • Storing and processing retrieval information using appropriate databases – PostgreSQL, MongoDB and Redis • In future, to work on machine learning and analysis of retrieved data. [RoR, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis] From September 2013 to December 2013 (4 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaIntern - Data Science, Competitions Platform @ • Worked with all the phases of the competition cycle, took on primary responsibility for one major competition • Defined problems, sourced and prepared relevant datasets and metrics, conducted feasibility study and built statistical models of various components to be used in evaluation/simulation • Worked on competitions involving GE (Flightquest 2), Belkin (Energy disaggregation), Facebook (Recruitment 3). [Python, R, Powershell, PostgreSQL] From May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaContract Software Developer (Google Summer of Code) @ I was selected to work on the project in a manner similar to GSOC, on the open source Mayhem project, hosted on codeplex. It is a project by Microsoft Research's Applied Sciences group, hosted by the Outercurve Foundation. It aims to connect event triggers to reactions, and is extremely user friendly. I developed various modules which are currently a part of the main branch [C# WPF] My fork can be accessed at http://mayhem.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/forks/anirudhranganath/MayhemDevelopment and the main branch at: http://mayhem.codeplex.com/ From May 2012 to August 2012 (4 months) Co-Founder and Developer @ • Developed software, websites and web applications for small businesses profitably • Interacted with various stake-holders and developers throughout the development cycle. [.NET, PHP, MSSQL, MySQL] From June 2009 to July 2012 (3 years 2 months) Coimbatore Area, IndiaIntern - Software Development Engineer @ • Built a prototype of Lync for Mac OSX • Programmed client side with Mac aesthetics and developed Toasts and JavaScript-native calls [Objective-C + Cocoa, JavaScript, CSS] From May 2011 to July 2011 (3 months) Hyderabad Area, India

Master of Science (MS), Computer Science @ University of Southern California From 2012 to 2014 Bachelors in Technology, Computer Science and Engineering @ Amrita School of Engineering From 2008 to 2012 Stanes Anirudh Ranganath is skilled in: JavaScript, PHP, Python, C++, Software Development, C#, Programming, C, Linux, HTML, Web Development, ASP.NET, .NET, Algorithm Design, Visual Studio, CSS, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Git, Ruby, Public Speaking, Ruby on Rails, Core Java, Kernel Programming, Mercurial, Data Mining, Computer Security, Machine Learning, Information Security, Product Lifecycle..., Web Applications, Databases, Objective-C, Information Security..., Github, R, GCC, Software Engineering, Algorithms, PostgreSQL, Windows Programming, Soft Computing, HTML + CSS, Powershell, Redis, MongoDB, Data Warehousing, Scalability, Skydiving