Arun

• Github: Github

• Email: arunk609@gmail.com

• LinkedIn: LinkedIn

• Website: Website

EDUCATION

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

7.15 CGPA

June 2021

SKILLS

• Languages: Solidity, JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Rust

• Stack: Blockchain development

• Frameworks: ethers.js, web3.js, Hardhat, Truffle, Foundry

WORK EXPERIENCE

Stealth DeFi x NFT protocol (Remote)

Blockchain Developer

December 2021 - Present

• One of the two developers working on the smart contracts required for the protocol.

• Performed extensive testing and security audits to build secure smart contracts.

• Built integrations library for the smart contract to interact with the frontend.

Senken (Freelance, Remote)

Blockchain Developer

September 2022 - June 2023

• Built the smart contracts for a carbon trading marketplace.

• Performed extensive testing and security audits to build secure smart contracts.

• Built integrations library for the smart contract to interact with the frontend.

Pegara (Tokyo, Japan)

Deep Learning Engineer

August 2021 - December 2021

• Developed deep learning solutions to detect the depth of flood from an image using instance segmentation and SLAM.

Raven Protocol (Bangalore, India)

Machine Learning and Blockchain Intern

May 2021 - August 2021

• Developed a distributed machine learning and deep learning framework powered by blockchain.

• Worked on integrating Raven Protocol with Ocean Protocol’s marketplace.

• Integrated Federated Learning and Differential Privacy with Raven Distribution Framework.

Text Mercato Solutions (Bangalore, India)

Data Science Intern

March 2021 - May 2021

• Built a menu extraction model using optical character recognition (OCR) and image segmentation techniques.

• Built crawlers to extract product data from e-commerce sites like Amazon, Big Basket, Flipkart, and Grofers.

• Worked on data extraction and cleaning for building language models to write automated product descriptions.

Alfaleus Technology Pvt. Ltd. (Vellore, India)

Project Intern

November 2019 - January 2020

• Built and integrated machine learning models that use EEG signals with Alfaleus’s patented glaucoma detection system to objectively detect glaucoma in a patient.

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

FinetsaTech (Remote)

Co-Founder

May 2020 - August 2021

• Managed multiple clients and developed websites, apps, and blockchain solutions for their company.

• Lead multiple developers working on various tasks to deliver websites and dApps to clients on time.

roboVITics (Vellore, India)

Technical Lead - CSE Department

February 2019 - February 2020

• Managed 20 students under my leadership and mentored over 60 students.

• Conducted numerous sessions on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning for students.

Google Code-in - 2019 (Remote)

Mentor for TensorFlow

February 2019 - February 2020

• Mentored Google Code-in participants on Google’s TensorFlow framework and monitored their projects.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Climate Change AI (Remote)

Machine Learning Volunteer

September 2021 - Present

• Working on using machine learning solutions for climate change.

PUBLICATIONS

• "Growing Cosine Unit: A Novel Oscillatory Activation Function That Can Speedup Training and Reduce Parameters in Convolutional Neural Networks" - Arxiv

• "Electrical Load Forecasting using Bayesian Regularization Algorithm in MATLAB and finding Optimal Solution via Renewable Source" - SGGES-2021

• "Real-time Drowsiness and Rash Driving Detection in Driver Using Residual Neural Networks" - IRJMETS-2020