Shaunak Badani

• Improved a tool for Technical Support staff that aids them in resolving customer issues without having to transfer it to the Engineering team, resulting in speedier resolution.
• Added the `ConsignmentLink` table in the system, which was needed as part of a larger feature `Vendor Consignment`.
• Resolved multiple customer issues, one of them impacting the workflow of 7 customers.

• Implemented hotswap for the docker development setup, which enables developers to see changes to the application instantly, decreasing development time by 60%.
• Reduced final build images by changing base image from python to it's alpine in the backend, and only copying build files to the image in frontend, reducing the image size by 97.53 %.
• Removed environment files from docker compose files and added .env files, thereby reducing the risk of API key leakage.
• Implemented session based authentication, which persisted login states after browser refreshes.
• Converted front end pages from stateful pages to stateless, which allowed users to refresh at different states of the application without losing context.

• Developed a feature that allows users to create reversals of Journal Entries using two clicks, which otherwise needed manual input.
• Enhanced developer tools to assist in identifying common customer issues with the Currency Revaluation engine, which saved several weeks of manual developer investigation and resulted in faster issue resolution.
• Added slack notifications for team-city (CI / CD) failures that help detect build failures early on during feature development, which saved precious time during feature integration into production.
• Assisted in transitioning the team from Perforce to Git as the VCS agent, ensuring a smooth transition of workflow well before support for Perforce from the Dev-Ops team was discontinued.
• Held informational sessions on several topics - on both domain and technical knowledge, which helped the team gather baseline knowledge necessary at work.
• Resolved multiple high-urgency customer issues within 1-2 business days by investigating and checking product expectation from documentation.
• Integrated the code-fix and automated test of a product issue by making code changes that was blocking a work-flow for 38 customers.
• Mentored new-hires in product development and domain-related knowledge, with a goal to gradually make them independent in their work.

• Added a field of ”year” on the course-feedback portal by making changes to the code-base, that helped faculty separate 2020 and 2021 course feedback data seamlessly.
• Deployed a newer version of the ”Central Authentication Service” (CAS) by modifying the template, which allowed integration of other services with CAS that were non-compliant with older versions of the latter.

• Implemented an enhanced molecular dynamics algorithm in python and C++ to achieve simulation convergence quicker.
• Published a research paper outlining the derivation of the algorithm and its implementation on three simple systems and one molecular system
• Organized informational sessions on foundational statistical mechanics concepts that helped juniors in the research group graduate faster.

• Implemented a mobile application in React Native that presents students with a set of questions that helps evaluate whether a kid at school needs a medical check-up
• Mocked up application UI’s in Photoshop before implementing the UI, which helped the team arrive at a consensus on a good UI design.
• Developed the backend API in django and deployed the application on an AWS EC2 instance.

Focus: Explainable AI for diffusion models

Focus: Algorithmic implementation of a novel molecular dynamics method

Focus: Web development, Operating systems, Optimization methods, Statistical methods in Artificial Intelligence