Ayan Banerjee

Email: ayanbn7@gmail.com
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Experience

Member Technical

Bengaluru, India
The D. E. Shaw Group
Nov, 2021 - Present

• Full Stack Developer at Primary Research Group.

Software Developer

Bengaluru, India
Siemens Healthineers
Aug, 2020 - Oct, 2021

• Software Developer at the Customer Service team.

Google Summer of Code student at The Virtual Brain

Open Source
International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility
May - Aug, 2020

• Upgrading and Fixing TVB-Gdist library (GitHub).
• Technologies: C++, Cython, Git, Continuous Integration, Unit Testing

Google Summer of Code student at UCSC Xena

Open Source
University of California, Santa Cruz
May - Aug, 2019

• Implemented support more data formats for Xena Browser (https://xenabrowser.net) in an ETL (Extract Transform Load) pipeline (GitHub).
• Data manipulation was done in Python with extensive usage of Pandas module.
• Technologies: Python, Pandas, Numpy, Git, Continuous Integration, Unit Testing, AWS

National Institute of Technology Durgapur

Durgapur, India
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Feb - Jun, 2019

• Worked on a deep learning project under the Mechanical Engineering department.
• Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Numpy, Pandas

Google Code-In Mentor

Open Source
Mentor under coala organization
Oct - Dec, 2018

• Mentored pre-university students to get them started with Open Source Contributions.

National Institute of Technology Durgapur

Durgapur, India
Student Software Developer
Aug, 2018

• Developed a GUI written in Kivy for High Voltage Lab, NIT Durgapur

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Mumbai, India
Summer Intern at FOSSEE under Prof. Kannan Moudgalya
May - July, 2018

• Top 60 among more than 22,500 applicants.
• Integrated a plagiarism detector with Yaksh, a course taking application, used inside IIT Bombay and in Spoken Tutorial courses by thousands of students.
• Technologies: Python, Django, Git, SQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Unit Testing

Education

• National Institute of Technology Durgapur

  Durgapur, India
  B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering, GPA: 9.29/10
  Jul 2016 - Jun 2020

• Sargachi Ramakrishna Mission High School

  Sargachi, WB, India
  Higher Secondary, Science, 96%, Ranked 13th in State, Topped in District; Secondary, 92.43%
  2008 - 2016

Publications

• Mary J. Goldman, Brian Craft, Mim Hastie, Kristupas Repeka, Fran McDade, Akhil Kamath, Ayan Banerjee, Yunhai Luo, Dave Rogers, Angela N. Brooks, Jingchun Zhu & David Haussler, “Visualizing and interpreting cancer genomics data via the Xena platform”, May 22, 2020, Published at Nature Biotechnology.

• Aniq Ur Rahman, Sarnava Konar, Ayan Banerjee, “Test-bench for Task Offloading Mechanisms: Modelling the Rewards of Non-stationary Nodes”, Published at IEEE ANTS (2019), Goa, India.

Projects

• Dustbin Management System: Full stack web app integrated with a smart dustbin which can sense the percentage filled and transmit the data using NodeMCU. The web app is built using Django, MaterializeCSS; this project came first in the IoT hackathon in Aavishkar, the tech fest of NIT Durgapur; a team project.

• Chat Web App: A full stack web app for real time chatting using sockets, built using NodeJS, Express, ReactJS, Socket.io, MongoDB.

• GitHub Activity Checker: A web app to show a GitHub user’s public activities, built using JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Material Design and GitHub API.

Achievements

• Ranked 191st among 8251 participants in CodeChef February 2018 Long Challenge.
• Ranked 1881st among more than 150,000 participants in CodeChef (Best Ranking, Sept, ’18, Best Rating 2027 (5-star)).

Skills

• Proficient In: C, C++, Python, Data Structures and Algorithms, Version Control System (git), Object Oriented Programming, DBMS.

• Familiar With: Linux, Go, Computer Networks, Operating System, Web Technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), Backend Technologies (Django), Deep Learning, PyTorch, ReactJS, NodeJS, Docker, LATEX.

Extracurricular Activities

• National Service Scheme (2017 - 2019): Organized annual survey and medical camps in villages.
• National Cadet Corps (2011 - 13, 2016 - 17): Took part in parades during Sports Day, Independence Day and Republic Day.