**SURAJ K A**
Email: suraj.ka@rutgers.edu
Phone: +1 (929) 413 7553
Github: Suraj-komarla
Linkedin: suraj ka

### EDUCATION
**Rutgers University** – MS in Computer Science, New Brunswick
GPA: 3.95/4 | 2022–2024

**PES University** – B.Tech in Computer Science, Bangalore, India
Core GPA: 9/10 | 2016–2020

### SKILLS
- **Languages:** Scala, Python, C#, C++, Java, SQL, React JS, Typescript, Node JS, GraphQL
- **Databases:** MySQL, DB2 SQL
- **Cloud Services:** Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka
- **Tools:** Docker, Jenkins, .NET, Git, Jira, Terraform, Spark, JMeter

### EXPERIENCE
**HealthCare, Inc.** – Software Engineer Intern/Co-op
June 2023–May 2024
- Developed features for a healthcare web app using ReactJS, Play Framework (Scala).
- Migrated project from Node 14 to Node 18.
- Optimized SQL queries to reduce costs and improve performance.
- Worked with Typescript, React, GraphQL, and Node.js.
- Assisted in creating a new CI/CD pipeline.

**Rutgers University** – Teaching Assistant
Jan 2023–May 2023
- TA and grader for CS 512: Data Structures and Algorithms.

**IBM** – Software Developer
Sep 2020–Aug 2022
- Built scalable SPARK SCALA services for big data processing.
- Reduced runtime of seller incentive calculations by 75%.
- Optimized cloud services to cut resource usage by 50%.
- Automated payment-related tasks, reducing manual effort.
- Developed a recursive SCALA parser for JSON data extraction.
- Created Kafka producers/consumers to trigger Spark jobs.

**IBM** – Software Developer Intern
Jan 2020–Jun 2020
- Integrated IBM MQ with Box Cloud using custom I/O exits.
- Built a logging tool with MongoDB for persistent storage.

**PES University** – Research Intern
Jan 2019–Dec 2019
- Designed an Intrusion Detection System for Docker/Kubernetes (97% accuracy).
- Developed network threat tracing using security tools.

### PROJECTS
**Movie Recommender Web App** – Rutgers 2023
- Implemented collaborative filtering for movie predictions.
- Deployed on AWS EC2 with load balancing.

**Face and Digit Classification** – Rutgers 2022
- Built neural net, Naïve Bayes, and KNN classifiers from scratch in Python.

**Intal (C Library)** – PESU 2018
- Created a library for arbitrary-length integer arithmetic operations.

### PUBLICATIONS
- *A Deep Learning Technique for Image In-painting Using GAN’s*
- *A Technique for Video Inpainting using Deep Learning*

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