Taneesh Kaushik

Software Engineer at Deutsche Bank, Berlin

• Key engineer for the development and maintenance of Deutsche Bank’s Exception Management tool DbExMan, a critical regulatory operations tool that handles and presents close to 5 million exceptions interfacing with around 20 upstreams, with a great focus on customer satisfaction and user experience.
• Led all reporting changes in DbExMan related to industry-wide shifts in reporting standards involving communication with a lot of cross-functional teams,contributing to Deutsche Bank’s attainment of industry-leading metrics with a 99% Acknowledgement rate, surpassing competitors’ 80% average by a huge margin.
• Optimized a critical component by parallelising its scheduling and developed an enhanced design, resulting in a 40% reduction in lead time for exceptions from the extraction layer to the presentation layer, leading to more robust reporting.
• Primary point of contact for resolving all production issues, consistently addressing user queries, and ensuring the delivery of optimal customer experience in DbExMan, while continuously implementing enhancements to improve tool usability.
• Successfully migrated one of our applications from traditional authentication to the bank’s cloud-based authentication system, significantly enhancing user experience and aligning with the bank’s strategic initiative to transition to cloud-based solutions.
• Designed and Implemented alerts across DbExMan with Tableau Dashboard, facilitating rapid identification and resolution of production issues, demonstrating our continued commitment to prioritizing customer satisfaction.

Software Engineer at Amazon Berlin

• Implemented Add To Cart functionality in recommendations of highly customer facing Amazon’s Detail page in my very first task improving the customer experience and probability to buy more world wide.
• Enhanced user experience manifolds by designing and implementing the feature of shareable urls in JavaScript for an internal debug tool enabling users to directly share the current state of the tool and communicate better.
• Served as on call for my team being the POC for all issues twice, demonstrating strong ownership and understanding of the team artifacts and systems.

Summer Internship at Walmart Global Tech India

• Setup automated testing frameworks for my team, which include two frameworks one for full fledged backend API testing and other for full fledged E2E testing, starting from UI to hitting backend APIs.
• Setup Jacoco for all modules and Improved the unit test code coverage of one of the modules from around 30-40% to above 95%
• Awarded stellar recommendation by my manager on LinkedIn, please check out here and Pre Placement Offer by Walmart.

Remote Work

I worked on finding and improving bounds on number of hyperedges in non 2-colourable n-uniform hypergraphs
precisely finding better upper bound on number of edges of 5-uniform hypergraph not satisfying property B

Stepping into the field of Theoretical Computer Science

I worked with Dr. Mudgal for a short period where I was being introduced to an unsolved problem in the field of Theoretical Computer Science
Rendezvous on a line, we were working with a 2d transform based solution and were finding the way to apply Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

Research Intern

• Implemented an algorithm for a near to fully efficient novel way to distribute tickets in railways
• Learnt basic machine learning and used it to make a binary classifier to detect pneumoniatic cells
• Automated the formation of dataset by using PyAutoGui library and helped in making a dataset of about 17000 images being used for various research purposes

ReactJs, Redux for frontend, NodeJs for backend and Python for data collecting agent similar to Amplify.

• Can be installed in a machine running an nginx instance, and starts collecting the metrics, sends regularly to the backend, and is visualised in various ways in the website.
• Features of Choosing the time frames for data visualisation, Works even when there is no network, storing the data regularly instead of keeping everything in RAM.
• Awarded one of the best projects by Dr. Balwinder Sodhi.
• Github Repo: Nginx Log Tool

ReactJs, NodeJs

• Post assessment, sending individually the marks/feedback/remarks/info to students in a time efficient manner is always a concern for the faculty members.
• Created a web app where people can send recipeint specific content in a very easy and efficient manner they just need to upload a csv file of the data along with email ids, we can choose which columns need to be sent, recipient specific mails will go without storing anything in database.
• Used by faculties of IIT Ropar.
• Github Repo: Easy Mailing
• Live with limited functionality: LIVE

JavaScript, Html

• Ranked 8th by Microsoft out of numerous teams under 2 member team category.
• Path Finding Visualizer to find shortest path between any two nodes on the map
• Implemented the Astar Algorithm in JavaScript.
• Github Repo: Shortest Path Finder
• Hosted site: LIVE

ReactJs

• Developed a Query Builder for efficiently creating queries giving the functionality of copying and merging queries.
• Github Repo: Query Builder
• Hosted site: LIVE

Php, MYSql

• A scalable platform for railway administration and ticket booking customers, allowing to release trains, book multiple train tickets and search trains, using php and mysql database.
• Github Repo: Raliway Ticket Booking System

Being founder and representative of the club I proposed to make the site then divided the work among members where I took care of most of the backend along with some frontend and we completed the project as a team
The site is developed keeping in mind the objectives of our club

• Has a signup/login system to enable members to login.
• Has a blog writing platform for the members where any member can write a blog and post it.
• Superuser can post video implemented using embed video app in django
• Has a gallery and functionality to add word of the day and a datewise sorted list of words too
• Has a page which assigns homework to the members only superuser can update the assignement list

Hoisted : Enarrators Website

Python Projects

As a group we developed a RISC V simulator named Apache

• Runs Assembly language using RISC V ISA
• Available in 2 versions pipelined and non pipelined
• Gui made by PyQt

Developed a vcf file generator which takes input as an excel sheet and outputs a vcf file which can be saved into mobile for instantly saving all the contacts in the mobile in easy way

Developed a simple desktop app namely Sanyam which gives the functionality to record the tasks which you spent time in and telling you where the time was spent, how much and when, for time management and productivity

Verilog Projects

Implemented the encryption using vivado and FPGA board, the encryption was displayed on the board using LEDs

Implemented 4 kinds of adders namely carry look ahead adder, Ling adder, Carry Save adder and Carry Select adder in Verilog using Xilinx vivado

Hardware Projects

Made prototype of a bot which can be used to efficiently manage any library by bringing the books on request, and keeping them back

• Used Raspberry Pi
• Used OpenCV

Developed an electronic function genearator using opamps which could generate sine wave using wien bridge oscillator

Developed a cctv camera with Raspberry Pi and Night vision camera module which restarts automatically upon movement detected by PIR sensor and saves the videos in a local server using ftp connection

Developed a wireless robot for robosoccer team using arduino and bluetooth module