Intern Developer - Google Summer of Code @ - Selected to work with the Programming Languages Research Group at UMass Amherst for GSOC. - Designed and developed a survey-builder w​eb based tool​for the Surveyman research project using React.js and Flux application architecture. - Built with modern front-end tools and best practices such as Immutable.js for immutable stores, Webpack for bundling and Babel for ES6/7 transpilation. From April 2015 to August 2015 (5 months) Business Analyst @ - Worked as a key part of IT team at Xcite.com - the largest Ecommerce website in Kuwait. - Led the project for migrating infrastructure from managed virtualization to a Amazon Web Services - namely EC2, RDS, EBS, ELB, ElastiCache and Beanstalk. - Developed the entire checkout functionality of the website as a single-page application to add the guest checkout feature using Angular.js leading to improved conversion rates - Sole full-stack developer on the project to build Kuwait’s largest credit sales portal for customers from third-party provider to a custom solution in Flask and Backbone. - Worked on improving website performance leading to decrease in page load time. Introduced an asset pipeline stage into the build process with Grunt to manage front-end assets. - Single-handedly responsible for all devops, release, automated deployments, backups and developer environments across multiple channels. Wrote Ansible scripts and setup Jenkins for Continuous Integration. From June 2013 to July 2015 (2 years 2 months) Marketing Intern @ - Worked on driving sales of the newly launched Complan SKU – Kesar and Pista Badam - Conducted in-depth interviews with consumers (SEC A/B) around Mumbai which helped in gathering insights and understanding consumer behaviour for purchasing health-food drinks. - Market visits to retail and wholesale markets in Mumbai and Lucknow along with consumer surveys in these areas. - Developed a marketing promotions plan for new launched SKUs including BTL activities and consumer offers. From April 2012 to May 2012 (2 months) Mumbai Area, IndiaWeb Developer Intern @ - Received pre-placement offer based on excellent performance in the internship - 2 of 400 employees to be selected in affiliate marketing Web apprentice program. - Appreciated for successfully deploying an error-checking script to optimize user logging - Achieved significant cost reduction by efficiently mapping landing pages to paid URLs - Developed the entire in-house mapping tool which helps the business users to better map the search URLs. From January 2011 to June 2011 (6 months) Intern @ - Conceptualized, designed and delivered an Ad which has been showcased on the company’s website - Headed the team to develop database, correct inconsistencies in the hospital’s huge patient database - Helped in implementing an algorithm for efficiently categorizing company’s expenses From April 2008 to July 2008 (4 months)

Master's degree, Computer Science @ Columbia University in the City of New York From 2015 to 2016 Master of Business Administration (MBA) @ Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta From 2011 to 2013 B.E.(Hons), Computer Science @ Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani From 2007 to 2011 Science @ Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram From 2005 to 2007 Prakhar Srivastav is skilled in: Machine Learning, Web Deve, Python, R, C, Data Analysis, Matlab, Analytics, Core Java, Market Research, SQL, Programming, Data Mining, Analysis, JavaScript