Backend Engineer @ From August 2015 to Present (5 months) Software Engineer, Data Visualization @ Technical lead in the design and development of a visualization application for school administrators
-Conducted extensive user research to identify the key questions administrators want to answer
-Designed a series of visualizations summarizing teacher ratings and evaluation data helping administrators identify patterns in performance
-Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies and ways of thinking by learning the full web development stack (Ruby on Rails, jQuery, D3, Angular, HTML, CSS)
-Developed REST API providing a data manipulation interface
-Developed visualization frontend
-Provided operational data support for school districts From February 2014 to July 2015 (1 year 6 months) Research Analyst @ Lead analyst supporting Department of Justice investigations of Medicare fraud
-Develop and maintain a system summarizing healthcare provider utilization, analyzing patient-provider networks, and identifying new leads
-Produce biannual analysis packages delivered to each healthcare fraud lawyer in the country
-Design rigorous analysis methodologies and clean datasets through extensive investigations
-Utilize SAS to analyze terabytes of claims and enrollment data spanning the entirety of Medicare
-Visualize results using Javascript (D3.js) and R
-Manage 3 employees, guiding their day-to-day project work and long-term development From August 2011 to February 2014 (2 years 7 months) Peer Learning Facilitator @ Tutored 10-15 low income or under-represented college students in proof-based upper division linear algebra From September 2010 to June 2011 (10 months) Assistant Researcher @ Designed a system for recovery of ocular motility following sixth-nerve palsy:
-Designed experiments to isolate significant parameters affecting muscle contraction
-Implemented a discrete control and measurement system using Labview
-Used MATLAB to filter noise from experimental data and summarize results From June 2008 to June 2011 (3 years 1 month) Engineering intern @ Debugged hardware using oscilloscope and network analyzers. Selected parts for a minimal change improvement on existing design. Modeled circuits in PSPICE/Cadence to pinpoint design issues. From June 2009 to August 2009 (3 months)
BS, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics @ University of California, Los Angeles From 2006 to 2011 Raja Gangopadhya is skilled in: Data Analysis, Matlab, Tutoring, SAS, Research, Statistics, Labview, JavaScript, Python, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Ruby on Rails, d3.js, C++, Git