Amal Matty Antony

Hello šŸ‘‹, I am a Cloud Engineer at Carnegie Robotics.


Experience

Software Engineer

Arcesium

  • Worked on implementing a domain-specific language internally called Arcesium eXpression Language(AXL), intended to enable domain experts to speed up the implementation of various financial calculators
  • Assisted in the implementation of an open-specification by Arcesium using protocol buffers and worked on implementing an ETL application to translate to and from the open specification
  • Built an authorization node module and python wheel for use across the firm by various software engineering teams
  • Automated the deployment process of an app to EKS Cluster which saved 5-10 minutes of developer time per release. Estimated to save around 2 hours of developer time per week.

July 2019 - Present

Intern

PSG INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND APPLIED RESEARCH

Worked with Prof. Shabariram to deploy Openstack on-premises at PSG iTech

  • A handful of rack servers and several consumer-grade machines from the computing lab
  • Services such as block storage, compute service were deployed for efficient utilization of underutilized resources
  • Technologies used:

    • RabbitMq
    • Swift
    • Cinder
    • Neutron
    • Glance
    • Horizon
    • Bash scripting

Nov 2017 - Jan 2018

Research Intern

Vel.ai

  • Worked with Prof. Lakshminarayanan and Prof. Srikanth to productionize COVID-19 models to predict new cases and active infections
  • Analyzed the optimal parameters for Adaptive SEIR and SIR models for various geographical regions, taking into account various mitigation measures being put into place to reduce the spread.
  • The models were deployed via FastAPI as REST endpoints on Amazon EC2


Education

Carnegie Mellon University - School of Computer Science

Master of Software Engineering - Scalable Systems

GPA : 4.0/4.0

2021 - 2022

PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research

B.E. Computer Science & Engineering

GPA : 8.30/10.00

Placement Representative, Department of Computer Science and Engineering 2018-19
  • Helped in conducting various placement drives in the college, with the placement team at PSG iTech.
  • Organized and conducted various seminars, mock interviews, and group discussions relevant to placements.
Joint Secretary, English Literary Forum(ELF) | 2016-18
  • Co-initiated ā€œLetā€™s Talkā€, a platform for aspiring speakers. Organized various sessions with more than 15 speakers participating in this time period
  • Helped in organizing and judging English debate for the annual day celebration
  • Helped in drafting and organizing a skit for the annual day celebration
Lead Website Backend Developer, Yuktaha | 2018
  • Developed the entire back end for the website for Yuktaha 2018, an inter-college technological symposium
  • Designed and implemented the database schema for online registration, form validations, mailing lists for promotional and confirmation emails
Executive Member of iTech Dialogue | 2018
  • iTech Dialogue is modeled after Ted Talks where a noted speaker delivers a talk on a captivating topic. Organized a talk with over 200 students attending the talk on ā€˜Opportunities in Civil Servicesā€™
Executive Member, Coding Club | 2016-2017
  • Organized a coding competition which saw a turnout of more than 100 students from the Computer Science department
2015 - 2019

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
  • Python - Flask, Pandas, FastAPI
  • Java / Kotlin - Spring Boot
  • Javascript/Typescript - Nodejs
  • ANTLR

Interests

Apart from work, I love to tinker around with programs and creating hobby projects. Off late I have been fiddling around with a Raspberry Pi, and using it as a web-server deploying docker images. I also occasionally game, my game of choice presently is Rocket League.


Awards & Certifications

  • Recipient of Prime Ministerā€™s Scholarship under National Defense Fund
  • One of the four recipients of the Outstanding Student Achievement Award for the batch of 2015-19
  • Runner-up in district level Solvathon organized by Confederation of Indian Industry
  • Runner-up Hunt the Code conducted at Pragyan, NIT Trichy
  • Second place in Top Coder organized at PSG College of Technology
  • ā€˜Machine Learningā€™ - Andrew NG, Coursera
  • Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Dell EMC
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate, Module I and II, Cisco Academy