Rajbharath Rajendran 2827 Orchard Avenue APT#08, Los Angeles, CA 90007 – 2132551767 – rajbharr@usc.edu

Education University of Southern California 2017 Master of Science: Computer Science (GPA: 3.85/4) Related Coursework: Artificial Intelligence and Algorithm design

Vellore Institute of Technology 2013

Bachelor of Technology: Computer Science (GPA: 3.7/4) Vellore, India

Summary of Skills Technical Skills: Java, C++, J2EE, Python, Oracle and MYSQL Web Technologies: JSP, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 Frameworks: Struts, Hibernate Packaging & Version Control tools: Maven, Ant and Git Other Skills: Hands on Experience in REST based application development, Design pattern and MVC Framework.

Work Experience PayPal July 2013-July 2015 Software Engineer II Chennai, India

Implemented Single Sign On functionality to provide unified user experience across PayPal and Payflow systems

Integrated First Data Nashville API validation in onboarding applications, which helped our customer support team from manually verifying those boarding details

Led a scrum team and organized scrum of scrum dependencies between local team and offshore product team

Trained new joiners by teaching them about Payment domain PayPal Jan 2013-Jun 2013 Software Engineering Intern Chennai, India

Increased Unit Test Code Coverage by 60% which lead transition from CMM level III to CMM level IV

Developed a monitoring tool which automatically deploy and preset the testing environment in stage machines

Projects Developed Computer player for Mancala Board Game: It uses several Adversial Search Algorithms to plan ahead

and make the best move. It is capable of searching up to 10 Million positions/sec. On an average, it searches 8-11 moves deep to choose the next best move. It also has an end game database for when only 2-3 pits left.

Deductive system using logical inference: This basically extracts hidden information from the known Information (axioms). This inference engine, using backward chaining, would search the inference rules until it finds one which has a consequent (then clause) that matches a desired goal. If the antecedent (If clause) of that rule is not known to be true, then it is added to the list of goals.

2 Factor Authentication: Integrated PayPal's 2 Factor Authentication functionality in payflow system and reduced 60% fraudulent account creation.

Rate Limiter: Implemented Rate Limiter using Ehcache and Throttling mechanism to mitigate Dos Attacks.

Awards and Community Involvement Spot Award for outstanding performance in fixing Security bugs, PAYPAL Oct 2014

PayPal Hackathon APAC Finalist Sep 2014

1st Prize, Bug Bounty Contest, identified critical bugs related to product pricing, conducted by PAYPAL Oct 2013

Member of GIVE TREE organization and participated in Beach Clean-up and child support programs Dec 2013

1st Prize, in coding competition "C Marks the Spot," graVITas, an International Knowledge carnival held in VIT University Sep 2011