**Pratik Mali**
San Jose, CA
(408) 690-5788
malipratik09@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/pratikmali
github.com/impratik7

### **EDUCATION**
**M.S., Software Engineering** (GPA: 3.51)
San Jose State University, San Jose, CA | Aug 2022 – May 2024
*Coursework:* Machine Learning, Data Mining, Big Data Analytics, Enterprise Software Platforms, Software Systems Engineering

**B.S., Computer Engineering** (GPA: 3.76)
Bharati Vidyapeeth University, India | Aug 2016 – Oct 2020
*Coursework:* Operating Systems, Data Structures & Algorithms, DBMS, Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Artificial Intelligence

### **SKILLS**
**Programming/Web:** Python, Java, C, C++, R, SQL, HTML, CSS, Flask, Tomcat, React, JavaScript, REST, gRPC
**ML/Data Science:** Pandas, NumPy, Spark, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, NLP, LLM, Seaborn, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, PyTorch
**Cloud:** Azure (ADLS, Data Factory, Databricks, Key Vault, Logic Apps), AWS, GCP
**Databases:** MongoDB, Oracle RDBMS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Azure CosmosDB, AWS DynamoDB, AWS RDS, NoSQL
**Tools:** Power BI, Docker, Hadoop, Kubernetes, Git, Databricks, BigQuery, Google Ads Data Hub, Meta Graph API, MATLAB

### **WORK EXPERIENCE**
**Software Engineer**, Persistent Systems, India | Nov 2020 – Jul 2022
- Led development of a new service across 7 countries, boosting brand campaign performance by **25%**
- Optimized **3 data models** into ETL Spark transformations, achieving **30% performance gain**
- Built scalable cloud infrastructure using **Azure ADF, Databricks, ADLS, and Power BI**
- Automated ETL pipelines, reducing manual work by **80%** and improving performance by **10-25%**

**Machine Learning Intern**, Tech Mahindra, India | Jun 2019 – Aug 2019
- Developed a **computer vision-based gesture recognition** prototype using **YOLOv3 (80% accuracy)**
- Built an Android music player app leveraging object detection

### **PROJECTS**
**Airbnb Revenue Predictor** ([repo](link), [hosted](link)) – Python, Docker, React, AWS, Regression
- Interactive dashboard predicting Airbnb profitability with **F1 score of 0.8**

**ChartGPT AI UML Tool** ([repo](link)) – OpenAI GPT API, LLM, NLP, Mermaid.js
- AI-powered tool generating UML diagrams from natural language

**Twitter Sentiment Analysis** ([repo](link)) – Matplotlib, NumPy, Tweepy, TextBlob
- Real-time sentiment classifier with **F1 score of 0.87**

**NASA Exoplanet Prediction** ([repo](link)) – Python, XGBClassifier
- Predicted exoplanet candidates with **96% accuracy**

### **CERTIFICATIONS**
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204) | Apr 2022
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900) | Jan 2022
- CCNA | Oct 2018

### **ACTIVITIES**
- Graduate Peer Mentor, SJSU | Feb 2023
- Participant, LA Hacks (UCLA) | Apr 2022
- Lead, Mozilla Campus Club | 2017–2020

*(Note: Links and formatting adjusted for clarity. Replace [repo]/[hosted] with actual URLs.)*

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