Varun Rishwandh Sekar
Chennai, India • varunrishwandh10@[Link] • (+91) 7598239251 • LinkedIn • GitHub
EDUCATION
VELAMMAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY
B.E. in Computer Science and Engineering. 8.05/10 CGPA
Relevant Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Probability & Statistics, Database
Management, Data Mining, Foundations of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Cloud Computing.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Mr Cooper
Software Engineer -1: JAN 2024 - present
Trained object detection models such as CenterNet, YOLOv9, CRF, and LayoutLM on over 30 documents and deployed
them to production with an accuracy exceeding 90% .
Created a packaging for the mortgage documents for the loan vendors to give better experience .
Implemented a notification system for marketplace users on the process and exceptions.
Productionized the models by migrating the deployment using vertex AI and bigquery.
Software Development Engineer – Trainee: JULY 2023 – DEC 2023
● Developed forecasting models to predict the number of customer calls per call group.
● Engineered solutions for identifying and converting the orientation of a document in real-time, resulting in 20%
reduction in processing errors
● Developed a User interface and a integration pipeline for the ‘Human-in-the-loop’ system to annotate,classify and
identify low quality documents.
Graduate Intern : JAN 2023 - JUN 2023
● Developed the front-end website of a job portal using NuxtJS for the government of Tamil Nadu, India
● Leveraged various LLMs such as, GPT,Gemini and Falcon to classify and extract mortgage documents.
Ziroh Labs
Java Development Intern Jan 2022 - March 2022
● Designed and developed a JAVA client that enhances user experience by presenting historical facts of the date and
location.
● Implemented encrypted SQL storage of data using 256-bit AES encryption.
Grey Scientific Labs
Backend Developer Intern Aug 2021 - Dec 2021
● Developed RESTful APIs for the backend of a hospital management platform, created databases and developed a
passwordless authentication feature.
● Deployed Backend server on cloud and helped setup the development environment using Proxmox.
PROJECTS
Real-Time Content Filtering using Deep Learning [ Javascript, Keras, Flask, ExpressJS, Transformers, CNN ]
● Gathered text and image data by scraping from various sources on the internet to build a dataset.
● Trained and tested multi-class text and image classification models using Keras.
● Built a cross-browser web extension to scrape and redact NSFW content in real-time from web pages.
Popularity Sentiment Index of World Leaders [ Python, Keras, MongoDB, NLP, Transformers ]
● Built a dataset from top posts and comments about select world leaders by scraping data from Reddit.
● Compared several NLP models to rank world leaders based on popular opinion objectively.
Browser Extension to detect Web Phishing [ Python, SVM, Regression, JavaScript ]
● Built a machine learning model to classify websites as legitimate and phishing.
● Implemented a browser extension to access the web address from the browser.
My Locality! [Google Maps API, Google Events API, Firebase, Django ]
● Designed and built a web app that gathers the user’s location and presents the nearby attractions or events along with the
route from the location using Google API.
● Used Firebase for storing user credentials and addresses.
News Aggregation using RSS Feeds [ Python, Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript, SQLite ]
● Developed a personalized newsletter that presents the top news in various categories and locations.
● Used [Link]’s news API to search for news articles for each category, and stored them in a local database.
● Used RSS feeds from various news agencies to fetch and parse the latest news.
Web-app to share Cooking recipes [ Python , Django , MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript]
● Designed and developed a Recipe sharing and food media platform for users to store and share recipes.
● Added CRUD operations and allowed the users to either share the recipes either publicly or to privately store them.
● Implemented an email authentication system and the ability to reset passwords through OTPs.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
1. Languages and Frameworks: C, Java, Python, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Django, Flask, FastAPI, Spring Boot, VueJS,
ReactJS , ExpressJS, Tensorflow.
2. Database: MySQL, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB
3. Cloud and Version Control: Git, Docker, Microsoft Azure & Google Cloud,
CERTIFICATIONS
1. Deep Learning, NPTEL
2. Social Networks, NPTEL
3. From Data to Insights with Google Cloud Specialization, Google Cloud & Coursera
4. Python Mega Course, Udemy
5. Database Programming with SQL, Oracle Academy
6. Frontend Web UI Frameworks and Tools: Bootstrap, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
LEADERSHIP & ACTIVITIES
Vice-President, Coding Club Sep 2022 - April 2023
● Conducted weekly coding contests for the students to participate and improve their problem solving skills.
● Organized sessions and seminars frequently on various programming techniques and other technologies such as
transformers, Casual AI and so on.
