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About Me

About Me

I'm Saravanan

Full Stack Developer

I am a Lead Full Stack Developer with 8 years of diverse experience in the technology, banking, and retail industries.
Passionate about technology, I have successfully developed and deployed numerous object-oriented and web-based Enterprise applications using Python (Flask, Django), AI/ML, React, JavaScript, and Java Spring Boot, following Agile methodology. I have played a pivotal role as a dev lead for the Center of Excellence in Verizon, where I integrated Google's Contact Center Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) in Verizon customer and agent chatbots.
As a dedicated and experienced Full Stack Developer, I am continuously seeking new challenges. If you're looking for a versatile and results-driven professional to lead your development projects, please don't hesitate to reach me out at saravananc2023@gmail.com or via LinkedIn Messages.

email : saravananc2023@gmail.com

place : Windsor, Ontario, Canada - N9A 4Z5

Skills & Abilities

My Education

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

B.Tech in Information Technology

Anna University

2012-2016 | GPA in Program: 8.14/10

Activities and societies: - Captain of Android app development and Augmented Reality club.
- Successfully led the IT Department Symposium (Ametros 2K14).Activities and societies: - Captain of Android app development and Augmented Reality club. - Successfully led the IT Department Symposium (Ametros 2K14). - Top 3 Graduates of Cohort.
- Received $2000 CAD from the Government of India (MSME) for Augmented Reality on Newspaper.
- Participated in the HCL HACKATHON conducted by Anna University and won a cash award of $350 CAD.
- MOBATHON: Conducted by Daimler Financial Service secured 4th spot out of 600 teams (National Level).

University of Windsor

Masters of Applied Computing

2023-2024 | Pursuing

Experience

Self Employed

Full Stack Developer

Oct 2021 - present

Verizon

Machine Learning Engineer

Oct 2022 - Sept 2023: Full-time · 4 yrs 10 mos

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

SDE - III: Team Lead - Center of Excellence (COE)



Verizon COE team focuses on Innovation using emerging technologies. Worked on various innovation projects that used AI/ML, AR, and Digital Human. Primarily worked as a full stack developer to develop and deploy apps in AWS servers using Python Flask, React, Google Dialog flow, and NLP libraries.

Responsibilities:

- Digital Human: Developed an in-house human-like digital virtual assistant using Python wav2lip GFGAN and Google's Dialog Flow. This virtual assistant effectively interacted with customers, providing a seamless and personalized experience. Hosted this ML model in AWS GPU instance.
- Dynamic FAQ Generator: Leveraged ML models like Text2Question and T5 Base fine-tuned to create a FAQ generator for Verizon articles. This automated system efficiently generated dynamic FAQs, improving customer support and reducing response time.

Skills: ChatGPT · Conversational AI · Machine Learning · JavaScript · Python · Java · React.js

Verizon

Full Stack Engineer

Apr 2019 - Oct 2022: Full-time · 3 yrs 7 mos

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

SDE - III: Lead Full Stack Developer

Project: VIKI (Verizon Intellectual Knowledge interface)

Responsibilities:

- Team Lead and key developer for the agent-facing chatbots used by around 75000 Retail and Indirect stores (Walmart, Best buy stores, etc.)
- Focused on emerging technologies like Google’s Contact Center Artificial Intelligence (CCAI) and other custom ML models.
- One of my notable projects, the "Video assist using Blue jeans" gained viral attention and was widely appreciated by the tech community. Verizon earned $1 Million USD additional revenue due to this project.
- Grooming the Jira Stories with the Onshore Business and delivering the project in Agile.
- Release Management and task delegation to the team members.
- Implemented the click-to-chat and slack notification feature that brought huge value to retail agent assistance by saving the customer assisting time. Highly appreciated by the biz team.
- Top Functionalities: Curbside upsell, Gif dashboard, Notification Center, Video Assist, etc.
- Tools & Frameworks: Spacy, Scikit learn, ML Classifiers, Google Dialog flow, REST APIs, Python, PostgreSQL, Flask, React JS, FFMpeg.

Skills: PostgreSQL · Supervised Learning · Artificial Intelligence (AI) · jQuery · SASS · Gulp.js · PHP · Spring Boot · Ffmpeg · Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) · Shell Scripting · spaCy · Scikit-Learn · Dialogflow · CCAI · REST APIs · HTML5 · JavaScript · Python · React.js · Flask

Verizon

Full-stack Developer

Dec 2018 - Apr 2019 · 5 mos

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · Hybrid

SDE - III: Lead Full Stack Developer

Project: Enterprise Search

Responsibilities:

- Played a key role as a lead developer in Verizon's internal search engine designed using IBM Watson. Primarily worked on React and Spring Boot for the web page functionalities.
- Implemented ML Model for custom named entity recognition using spacy lookup for Device and Accessory identification.
- Tools & Frameworks: React, Java Spring Boot.

Skills: Gulp.js · PHP · Spring Boot · JavaScript · JavaSkills: Gulp.js · PHP · Spring Boot · JavaScript · Java

Wipro

Senior Project Engineer

Jun 2016 - Dec 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos

#1. Client: TD Bank (US & CANADA)
Role: Project Engineer | Developer L1

#2. Client: AT&T
Role: Senior Project Engineer | Developer L2
07/2017 - 03/2018

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