Divay Prakash

I'm a postgrad student at SCMHRD Pune, pursuing MBA in Operations Management. I hail from Delhi and am a computer science engineering graduate from IIIT Delhi, class of 2018.

General Info

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I am an enthusiastic person who enjoys overcoming challenge and achieving personal goals. The opportunity to learn new skills and work with new technologies is particularly attractive to me. I have a clear, logical mind with a practical approach to problem solving and a drive to see things through to completion. Working with a team to analyze and solve problems gives me immense joy. I am creative and artistic and have a great eye for detail, being a true perfectionist at heart. I am eager to learn and I enjoy overcoming challenges. I have strong technical skills as well as excellent interpersonal skills. You will find me to be extremely hardworking, and able to juggle multiple tasks with great time management, or focus all my energy on just one too. Besides English and Hindi, I also speak geek!

Education

  • 2018 - 2020

    Master of Business Administration in Operations Management

    Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune

  • 2014 - 2018

    Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering

    Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Delhi

  • 2013 - 2014

    CBSE Class 12

    The Mother's International School, Delhi

Key Projects

  • Jan’18 - Apr’18

    Design of online platform for B2B supply chain management

    IIIT Delhi

    Created business model for online portal to facilitate order placement, processing and fulfillment process for B2B buyers, sellers and ancillaries, providing timelines and end-to-end order tracking

    Used ‘Value Proposition Canvas’ in conjunction with ‘Business Model Canvas’ to describe business model

  • Aug’17 - Nov’17

    Website redesign

    IIIT Delhi

    Led team responsible for redesign of IIIT Delhi ERP website and NPTEL online certification website

    Implemented front-end website demo, yielding over 40% increase in user experience ratings

    Used human-computer interaction methodologies like contextual inquiry, prototyping, low-fidelity design, user testing and high-fidelity design

    Currently under implementation in IIIT Delhi ERP system

    Summafy - Code
    Demo Website (Select 'Role' and click 'Sign In')

    NPTEL online certification - Code
    Demo Website ('Refresh' after pageload)

  • May’16 - Apr’17

    Building Management System

    IIIT Delhi

    Worked with team to design and implement pilot project of IoT-based BMS for use at IIIT Delhi

    Conducted viability testing, hardware/software design, development and integration testing, and web development

    Responsible for project planning and architecture, day-to-day project management, regular review with stakeholders, maintaining targets and ensuring adherence

    Achieved 60% reduction in upfront cost, along with reduction in maintenance frequency and cost

    Currently under implementation in IIIT Delhi infrastructure

    Technology stack consisted of Arduino microcontroller devices with an interface board of sensors and ESP devices, Raspberry Pi sub-server devices and a central server running Django

    Thesis I   Thesis II   Code

  • Aug’16 - Nov’16

    Silencio

    IIIT Delhi

    Designed and implemented a noise level detection, indication, logging and mapping application on Android platform, utilizing a custom Django server as backend

    Various modules currently in use at IIIT Delhi

    Code

  • Aug’16 - Nov’16

    Shark - SHARing Keys

    IIIT Delhi

    Designed and implemented an Android application for sharing PGP keys using QR codes, along with signing to build Web of Trust, utilizing a custom MEAN stack server as backend

    Application   Server

  • Mar’16 - Apr’16

    Programmer Hub

    IIIT Delhi

    Designed and built a static website using Bootstrap and Bower, using various technologies and tools such as HTML5 Boilerplate, robots and humans text files, sitemap, Google site verification for SEO, YSlow for optimisation, Codeclimate for static code analysis

    Website   Code

  • Mar’16 - Apr’16

    Controlling Pollution

    IIIT Delhi

    Designed and built a web app following Material Design Guidelines using a custom Django server as backend. The app scraped data from various government websites to display real time pollution statistics and provided a platform for citizens to raise their voice about issues related to pollution in the NCR region

    Code

  • Mar’16 - Apr’16

    Art Gallery DBMS

    IIIT Delhi

    Designed and implemented a DBMS system to manage an art gallery using MySQL, JDBC, Java and JavaFX

    Code

  • Oct’15 - Nov’15

    PhD Admission Portal

    IIIT Delhi

    Implemented a mock PhD admission portal using Java, JavaFX and socket programming

  • Jan’15 - Apr’15

    Gesture recognition mouse

    IIIT Delhi

    Created a gesture recognition computer mouse using an ADXL345 accelerometer module and an Arduino Leonardo

    Code   Blog

  • Aug’14 - Sep’14

    Parking Sensor

    IIIT Delhi

    Created a parking sensor using an ultrasonic distance sensor and an Arduino Uno

    Code   Blog   Demonstration

Co-curricular Achievements

  • 2016, 2017

    Succesful hacker - GitHub Hacktoberfest

    GitHub

  • 2014

    Awardee, Sh. Dharamveer Gajra Memorial Award for ‘positive work in field of IT’

    The Mother’s International School, Delhi

  • 2012

    Gold Medalist, National Mathematics Olympiad

    All India Schools Mathematics Teachers Association

  • 2010

    Scholarship Holder, Junior Science Talent Search (JSTS)

    Directorate of Education, Govt. of NCT of Delhi

  • 2009

    Scholarship Holder, National Talent Search Examination (NTSE)

    National Council of Educational Research and Training

  • 2009

    All India Rank 80, National Cyber Olympiad

    Science Olympiad Foundation

Positions of Responsibility

  • May’16 - Present

    Mentor

    Coursera

    Mentor for ‘Front-End Web UI Frameworks and Tools’ course by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

    Certification Badge

  • May’16 - Present

    Team Member

    Logistics and Infrastructure Team, Esya (technical fest) and Odyssey (cultural fest) of IIIT Delhi

    Responsible for logistics, management of event infrastructure, and sourcing as required

Extracurricular

  • Jul’14 - Present

    Contributor

    GitHub

    Contributor on GitHub to various OSS projects

  • May’15 - Jun'15

    Teaching Volunteer

    Udyam Trust, Delhi

    Taught Mathematics, Computer Science and General Science to middle and secondary school students from economically weaker section of society

  • May’13

    Teaching Volunteer

    The Mother's International School, Delhi

    Taught Mathematics, English and Hindi to primary school students

Interests

Driving and Cars

'Driving is my therapy. My escape.'

Travelling

'Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.'
- Henry David Thoreau

Technology

'Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.'
- Arthur C. Clarke

Guitar and Music

'My guitar is not a thing. Its is an extension of myself. It is who I am.'
- Joan Jett

Playing pool

'I love to play pool.'
- Dante Hall

Playing badminton

'If we dare to win, we should also dare to lose.'
- Lee Chong Wei

Programming and web design

'Talk is cheap. Show me the code.'
- Linus Torvalds

Counter Strike

'One shot. One kill. No luck. Pure skill.'

Coffee

'If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsoever.'
- David Letterman

Art

'The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.'
- Pablo Picasso

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