Dinesh Balakrishnan

Dinesh Balakrishnan

Honors CS Student at Texas A&M University

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Work Experience

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Software Engineering Intern

JavaScriptPythonJQuery

May 2024 - Aug 2024

  • Contributed to a REST-API that facilitates voice, SMS, and email messaging from phone to aircraft via satellite.
  • Collaborated on extensive Java Spring Boot codebases, conducting in-depth code reviews to ensure quality and functionality.
  • Developed numerous REST API endpoints, comprehensive unit and integration testing strategies, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Revamped a satellite messaging codec to work more efficiently and be much more maintainable.
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IT-Intern (Software Engineering)

PythonJavaHTML/CSSCI/CDAgile

Feb 2023 - Feb 2024

  • Effectively maintained a range of large-scale applications, using languages like Java, Perl, and Python and produced software technical documentation and important team documentation.
  • Utilized the team Kanban method for Agile software development and used JIRA and confluence for project and knowledge management.
  • Developed an LDAP pooled authentication proxy to authenticate all POP3/IMAP email clients for TDS email authentication; Learned to implement efficient threading using python and effectively perform distributed load testing
  • Produced automated CI/CD pipelines for Java and Python applications and libraries using Jenkins and Ansible
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Student Coordinator

JavaScriptReactHTML/CSSCustomer ServiceTroubleshootingLeadership

Jan 2023 - Sep 2023

  • Supervised call center operations, guided technicians and addressed IT issues for over 130,000 beneficiaries.
  • Assessed and prioritized software outages, liaising with other IT departments and IT mission control to restore vital front-end and back-end university services promptly.
  • Built a modern, Web Scraping, Cloud hosted, Node.Js driven, dashboard and desktop client, providing critical metrics for call center efficiency and agent call queue data to both technicians and senior management
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Student Technician

Customer ServiceTroubleshooting

Oct 2021 - Jan 2023

  • Assisted campus members with diverse IT challenges, from account troubleshooting to software/network outage resolution through multiple channels: phone, chat, email, walk-ins, and ticketing systems like ServiceNow.
  • Always earned perfect QA scores
  • Received lots of unsolicited commendable customer service feedback.

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