Ankush Jindal


Cofounder at The Solar Labs.


Projects and Work Experiences
Place It Now, -- Mandi, Cofounder
Startup | Dec 2017 - Feb 2017
A canteen queue and order managmenet soution deployed in IIT Mandi.
Streaming Based Genome Mapping on Apache Flink, -- IIT Mandi
Major Technical Project | June 2016 - June 2017
Created streaming based distributed computing solution for genome mapping in a big data problem. Genome Mapping have been the bottleneck for the genome sequence detection and doing it in streaming maner will help in moving fast at times of disease outbreak or emergency situations.
Skills used: Spark, Kafka, Flink, Java
Khosla Labs, -- Bengaluru, Software Developer
Internship | June 2016 - Aug 2016
User Traits Prediction using Mobile Usage Data- App probes were created for fetching data and pushing the same continusuoly using sync adapter through Kafaka Channels. The Kafka channels were consumed through Spark connector and were stored in Cassandra tables after pre-processing. The cleaned data was used for multi-level feature extraction through spark.
Skills used: Android, Kafka, Spark, Cassandra
Business intelligence dashboard for customer perception, -- Angel Hackathon, Bengaluru
Project | July 2016
Participated in Angel Hackathon, by developing a dashboard for small and medium scale businesses, ranging in multiple verticals, to monitor and analyse customer's perception about one's business as gathered from online reviews, customer generated content and social media data. Sentiment analysis is used to generate an intelligent temporal and spatial dashboard from multiple sources(reviews and social) allowing the businesses to do a feature based analysis of one's business as compared with other similar businesses in local/global domain.
Skills used: Python, HPE Haven OnDemand, Javascript, d3js
Correctness Proof of Various Algorithms Using Coq, Programming Language Seminar
Course Project | Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
Coq proof assistant was used to prove the correctness of tree sort and KMP string search algorithm as well as runtime analysis for KMP string search algorithm.
Skills used: Coq. [Report]
Service Design Case Study, Introduction to Service Design
Course Project | Feb 2016 - Jun 2016
Multiple principles and tools of service design were applied to a web based service, Praice, which is a tool for job applicants to communicate their personality to recruiters. [Report]
Back Home : VR in space, NASA Space Apps Challenge, Copenhagen -- Local Winner
Competition Project | May 2016
Use of virtual reality in space is a challenge- accelerometer and gyroscope does not work as intended in zero gravity, weight and size of equipments is a major constraint. As a part of two day hackathon, our team of six proposed and designed a simple solution for it which uses Google Cardboard, 3-D printing and piggyback on existing resources on space station/spaceship. [Video, Pitch]
File Tone Transfer Protocol, System Practicum
Course Project | Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Created protocol and proof-of-concept for sending files encrypted as sound, which when heard by other computers at earshot range decrypts back to file.
Skills used: Python, Sound Processing, Cryptography, File Handling, Networking. [Report]
Amicus Co., -- New Delhi, Data Scientist
Internship | June 2015
Developed pipeline for an Ecommerce company Amicus Co. by creating and joining data scraping, data cleaning, natural language evaluation and machine learning code for reviews from different platforms.
Skills used: Scrapy, Selenium, Python, NLTK and Scikit-learn
Automation of Software Update on IIT Mandi's Insite, WING IIT Mandi
Project | May 2015
As a part of Website and Information Group, have created python and bash scripts to keep software repository on IIT Mandi's local intranet up-to-date.
Smart Home Security Kit, Design Practicum
Course Project | Mar 2015 - May 2015
Building a smart home security kit to be installed on door, using raspberry pi and Parse server. Created an email bot for the same. [Brochure]
Feature based sentiment analysis of hotel reviews, Inter IIT Tech Meet, Kharagpur -- Winner
Competition Project | Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Represented IIT Mandi in Third Inter IIT Tech Meet in Data Analytics’ challenge. Developed feature based sentiment analysis scripts on scraped hotel reviews. The scripts were automated and presented feature based ratings for the hotels for given city(after scraping reviews from multiple sources). Won first prize in the challenge.
Skills used: Java, Stanford CoreNLP, Python, Scrapy, Javascript, HTML. [Report, Pitch]
Social marketplace website, Database Practicum
Course Project | Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
Developed a social marketplace based on barter system where users can exchange their products among themselves.
Skills used: HTML5, MySQL, PHP
Fuzzy logic in stock prediction, IIT Mandi
Project | June 2014 - Aug 2014
Use of fuzzy logic and Matlab for data forecasting (Primary use: Stocks Prediction).

Links that I found interesting
2016-07-27 Don’t add your 2 cents | Derek Sivers
2016-07-27 Web Design in 4 minutes
2016-07-14 Why we no longer trust the experts - FT.com
2016-07-12 Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful
2016-06-28 Fintech India: Survey by Kalaari Capital
2016-06-28 New Cities - Y Combinator Posthaven
2016-06-03 Social media platform cycle and ads
2016-06-03 Dan Grover | Bots won't replace apps. Better apps will replace apps.
2016-05-31 Alan Kay's Reading List
2016-05-22 How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds

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