MY NAME IS RAJ

AND THIS IS MY RÉSUMÉ

// ABOUT

I'm interested in big data, cybersecurity, computational linguistics, and philosophy.
My current project is Abacus (abacusquizbowl.com), a webapp for scorekeeping in quizbowl. I’m also working on a paper introducing an existential perspective of Hegel’s Weltgeist and its implications on free will.

// EDUCATION

2014-

U.C. Berkeley Berkeley, California
B.S. Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
B.A. Philosophy

2010-2014

Westview High San Diego, California

// EXPERIENCE

SUMMER 2013

The Scripps Research Institute La Jolla, California
I used Python to analyze copy-number variant DNA mutations, identifying CNVs and potential links to disease. I also created a PBS/TORQUE pipeline to automate analysis on the Garibaldi supercomputer.

Accomplishments

Co-authored a publication titled Scripps Genome Annotation and Distributed Variant Interpretation SERver
Pending acceptance to the Genetics in Medicine research journal

SUMMER 2012

San Diego Supercomputer Center La Jolla, California
I used Fortran to merge Amber (a molecular dynamics package) and NWChem (a quantum mechanics simulator), thereafter benchmarking various basis sets on the Gordon supercomputer. I also extended Amber to support Q-Chem, another quantum simulator.

Accomplishments

Authored a publication detailing my work, including analysis of various basis sets in Hartree-Fock simulations

// CONTACT

Balachandar 'Raj' Kesavan [email protected] 1.858.204.0233 bitbucket.org/rajksvn

// SKILLS

Application languages

Java

Scripting languages

Python

Server technologies

Flask
sqlite
SQLAlchemy

Web technologies

HTML5/CSS3
JavaScript
jQuery
AngularJS (learning)

Operating systems

Linux
Windows

Software

git
Adobe Photoshop

Other languages

LaTeX
regex
Telugu, native speaker
French, limited proficiency

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