Education
Cornell University
MEng in Computer Science
Dec 2014 | Ithaca, NY
Cornell University
BS in Computer Science
May 2014 | Ithaca, NY
College of Engineering
Magna Cum Laude
Cum. GPA: 3.83/4.0
Major GPA: 3.9/4.0
La Martiniere for Boys
Grad. May 2011| Kolkata, India
Links
- Facebook://dd
- GitHub://deedydas
- LinkedIn://debarghyadas
- YouTube://DeedyDash007
- Twitter://@debarghya_das
- Quora://Debarghya-Das
Coursework
Graduate
Advanced Machine Learning
Open Source Software Engineering
Advanced Computer Graphics
Compilers + Practicum
Cloud Computing
Evolutionary Computation
Defending Computer Networks
Machine Learning
Undergraduate
Information Retrieval
Operating Systems
Artificial Intelligence + Practicum
Functional Programming
Computer Graphics + Practicum
(Research Asst. & Teaching Asst 2x)
Unix Tools and Scripting
Skills
Programming
Over 5000 lines
- Java
- Shell
- Python
- Javascript
- OCaml
- Matlab
- Rails
- LaTeX
Familiar
- AS3
- iOS
- Android
- MySQL
Experience
Facebook | Software Engineer
Jan 2015 - Present | New York, NY
Coursera | KPCB Fellow + Software Engineering Intern
June 2014 - Sep 2014 | Mountain View, CA
- 52 out of 2500 applicants chosen to be a KPCB Fellow 2014
- Led and shipped Yoda - the admin interface for the new Phoenix platform
- Full-stack developer - Wrote and reviewed code for JS using Backbone, Jade, Stylus and Require and Scala using Play
Google | Software Engineering Intern
May 2013 - Aug 2013 | Mountain View, CA
- Worked on the YouTube Captions team, in Javascript and Python to plan design and develop the full stack to add and edit Automatic Speech Recognition captions. In Production.
- Created a backbone.js-like framework for the Captions editor.
Phabricator | Open Source Contributor & Team Leader
Jan 2013 - May 2013 | Palo Alto, CA & Ithaca, NY
- Phabricator is used daily by Facebook, Dropbox, Quora, Asana and more
- I created the Meme Generator and more in PHP and Shell
- Led a team from MIT, Cornell, IC London and UHelsinki for the project
Research
Cornell Robot Learning Lab | Researcher
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015 | Ithaca, NY
Worked with Ashesh Jain and Prof Ashutosh Saxena to create PlanIt, a tool which learns from large scale preference feedback to plan robot trajectories in human environments
Cornell Phonetics Lab | Head Undergraduate Researcher
May 2012 - May 2013 | Ithace, NY
Led the development of QuickTongue, the first ever breakthrough tongue-controlled game with Prof Sam Tilsen to aid in Linguistics research
Awards
| 2014 | Top 52/2500 | KPCB Engineering Fellow |
| 2014 | 1 st/50 | Microsoft Coding Competition, Cornell |
| 2013 | National | Jump Trading Challenge Finalist |
| 2013 | 7 th/120 | CS 3410 Cache Race Bot Tournament |
| 2012 | 2 nd/150 | CS 3110 Biannual Intra-Class Bot Tournament |
| 2012 | National | Indian National Mathematics Olympiad(INMO) Finalist |