Yash Mundra

Computer Science, Cornell 2021.

Work Experience

Girnar Software

Worked on their CarDekho.com portal, one of India’s leading car search ventures with a team of 10+ members
Designed and implemented a publish-subscribe based message queuing system in order to help manage traffic between host connections and messaging bots used for marketing and 2 factor authentication.
Designed a broadcasting system with low latency and non persistent messages to help connect data informing APIs and the core system
Contrasted the use of both RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka and made demos with both in order to determine the best platform.
Ultimately, used RabbitMQ to implement the systems along with a Spring-AMQP based backend in order to maintain compatibility with their existing systems.

June 2019 - July 2019

Educommerce Technologies

Collaborated with a team of developers to improve the functionality of an education service product by focusing on the UI/UX on the administration dashboard.
Designed and built a new front-end dashboard for the administration panel. Developed a dynamic design using AngularJS.
Researched data management techniques to employ in their Android App, Myly.

May 2017 - August 2017

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

August 2017 - May 2021

international baccalaureate

April 2011 - June 2017

Daily Brief is a progressive web app utilizing Google’s T5 Transformers to provide digestible summary of the top news stories of the day.
Utilized PyTorch to finetune T5-small on CNN/Daily Mail summarization Dataset.
Deployed as a Docker container on AWS’s ECS which runs twice a day to store the summarized news in a DynamoDB Database.
Used AWS’s Lambda and API Gateway to create a RESTful API to retrieve data from DynamoDB.
Created a front-end using React Native which fetched data through the API.
Link: https://news-app-a8a95.web.app/

Conceptualized and created an Android app to raise awareness about COVID and give advice on prevention.
Features included location based reminders(regarding mask use), and time based reminders for pre-made and custom tips.
Utilized React-Native for the front-end, Node-js for the back-end. Used Expo’s libraries for native functionality.
Supported both Hindi and English languages using the i18n-js library.
Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.SIA

Conceptualized and created an Ocaml based solar system simulator.
Allowed the user to create and simulate the motions of celestial bodies in a two dimensional space
Functions as 2D terminal based game where the user controls a spaceship.
Based on Riemann sum approximation of Newtonian physics.
Project Repo: https://github.com/yashmundra13/Physics-Simulator

Created a classifier for the Story Cloze Test using only the endings.
Trained on a dataset of 10000+. Achieved an Accuracy of 70 percent
Utilized Scikit’s sklearn along with Spacy’s POS Tagger. Used character n-grams, POS tags n-grams along with length of endings as features.
Developed a robust backend using PHP and MySQL.
Project Repo: https://github.com/yashmundra13/Story-Cloze-Feature

Content management system

Conceptualized and created a a recurrent neural network to classify Yelp Reviews and the stars each review received.
Trained on a dataset of 10000+.
Utilized Pytorch along with Gensim’s Glove6B word embeddings
Developed a robust backend using PHP and MySQL.
Project Repo: https://github.com/yashmundra13/RNN

Content management system

Conceptualized and created a web-based solution for teachers to management school assignments in a high school.
Implemented features for the publishing, indexing, search control and retrieval of assignments uploaded.
Allowed teachers in a high school to keep track of student’s assignments.
Developed a robust backend using PHP and MySQL.
Project Demo: www.mundra.net.in/am
Project Repository: https://github.com/yashmundra13/CMS