I feel you put your self at service of others when you create software for someone. Tools that change lives, make things better. Things people like to use and you play a small part in changing someone's life and making their life better and easier.
With around 7 years of experience in software development and optimisation, I help clients in developing tools thats increase their efficiency and help them from Day to Day decision making and assisting them in their work.
Heading New Project Operations Department
-Look after New Projects Supply on Housing.com
-Responsible for builder escalation resolution and client servicing
-Responsible for delivery of 16+ Content Products -People Management
-Handled integrations of operations for the department after merger with Proptiger.com
Software development
- Worked on 3 important projects in short time
- 2 projects were based on cloud computing using technologies like Alfresco, Liferay and Solr. - Practised Agile Software development methodology
Responsibility to be on the leadership body of an organization, strategies, membership development, redefining the processes, efficiency management, team building, decision making, conferences, representing AIESEC in Ahmedabad at internal and external forums.
- Part of 9 member executive body, delivered 94 international exchanges and received National Contribution Award
- Organised 1 week long National Leadership Development Conference for 600 Members
- 300% growth in number of partners with the likes of Vadilal, Adani, Italia Group and 500% growth in International Exchanges.
- Conceptualised and Organised AIESEC Ahmedabad`s first Youth-To-Business Conference.
- Led team of 14 members, won Best Delegation Award 2 times in Local Conferences.
Created a desktop application with a mathematical model in Python for a large engineering firm to make optimal decisions using linear programming
- The tool is useful to do what-if analysis
- The tool is helpful in making resource allocation decisions.
- The tool also has capability to save Millions in investment for the infrastructure projects.
- The project is made in Python, with output in Excel, Google Maps and Google Earth.
Housing.com faced issue of duplicate listings on their portal. Developed an application which catches duplicates by image matching and keeps the portal clean.
- Around 0.14 Million properties were found duplicate out of 1.7 Million properties collected
- The project was done in Python and OpenCV for image matching manipulation
Every semester the college needs to decide which courses will be taken by which students in which class.
- The project scheduled the classes so that overall student movement was minimised.
- The project is currently used to schedule 500+ courses for 1000+ students in 19 slots.
- The project was done in Python and Gurobi Solver
Worked on a project for Indian Railways (National Railway Carrier for India)
- The scope of project was to decide where to move the train and in which direction so that outstanding orders are served and overall transportation cost is minimised The network had 200 trains and decision is taken daily
- The project was done in Python and Gurobi Solver.
- The project significantly reduced the man-hours of the team involved in decision making from 4 Man-hours to approximately 1 Minute.
Hospital Management System
Developed a web application for managing hospital administrative work and client management. The Application would enrol new patients, produce an invoice based on services rendered.
National Electric Board
Maintained website for an international American client. Developed new features and optimized software to resolve bugs
Asset Management System
Worked on CMS (Content Management System) for a top Japan client to manage their assets. The work was challenging as it involved lot of moving components and involved many strategic decision making.
Operations Research, IIT Bombay, 2012 - 2014
Information Technology, L D College Of Engineering, 2006 - 2010
Vishal brings positive energy, good technical perspective and a well-rounded set of soft skills to project and team. His eagerness to learn made him valuable employees. He is one of the most talented individuals and find him to be one of the easiest individuals to work.
Pranav Joshi, Delivery Head, Cybage Software Pvt Ltd
Vishal is one of the most analytical persons I have met. His ability to sift through data, make sense of it and derive actionable insights from it is absolutely amazing. On top of it, he has grown as a operations manager at Housing and led teams to deliver mission critical KPAs. His automated image matching algo is a core piece of Housing's operation.
Gaurav Agarwal, VP Operations, Housing.com
Vishal was in my team for around 4 months. Project was based on j2ee technologies and on cloud platform called LongJump. He has demonstrated good team member spirit and developer skill. His communication and overall attitude with team was excellent.
Dharmesh Borad, Technical Lead, Cybage Software Pvt Ltd