Saiharshith Karuneegar Ramesh

Software Engineer II

@Cadence Design Systems

February 2024 - Present

• Developed an algorithm to optimize customer designs, reducing the number of SLR crossings by over 90%, significantly improving Compile and Place & Route (P&R) timings.
• Collaborated on optimizing the step count of the designs by strategically grouping and increasing the frequencies of fast and slow clock domains. This improvement led to a reduction in step count ranging from 10% to 80% across various designs.
• Integrated Static Timing Analysis (STA) API libraries to calculate the net and cell delays of the designs, resulting in a 10-15% reduction in compile time.

Software Engineer

@Freshworks

July 2021 - April 2022

• Re-engineered the background server of Freshworks’ CRM by transitioning from a monolithic architecture to a multi-layered microservices architecture. This reduced the network traffic overload by 40%, optimizing system performance and reliability.
• Engineered a substantial enhancement in email deliverability by redesigning the sign-up process. This led to a 50% reduction in the overall spam score percentage of the product, underscoring a commitment to delivering a superior user experience.
• Significantly improved the system efficiency by streamlining the sign-up request processing, achieving a 30% reduction in the processing time. Implemented an asynchronous sign-up callback process for responsiveness and resource utilization.
• Enriched the email–deliverability metrics by 40% by introducing de-duplication algorithms. Leveraged technologies, such as Redis Cache, to optimize data management and ensure the highest level of data integrity.

Software Engineer Intern

@Freshworks

February 2021 - June 2021

• Collaborated with the Freshsales product team to successfully implement a new landing page feature in the customer timeline within a 2-day timeframe, adhering to the customer’s specified deadline.
• Improved the product build time by upgrading the build tool (Gradle), resulting in a reduction from >13 minutes to 8 minutes
• Developed a Staging Stack system for Freshmarketer’s test engineers where they can update and release the usage of different test stacks.

Machine Learning Intern

@Cadence Design Systems

May 2019 - July 2019

• Worked in the Software Development Group team in an agile environment and worked with various machine learning algorithms to improve accuracy.
• Worked with data preprocessing and ensemble learning to improve the overall accuracy.
• Improved the accuracy by more than 23% by the end of the internship.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

@CS 222 - Software Design Lab

Aug 2023 - Jan 2024

• Led and mentored 17 teams in the development and implementation of novel software solutions, emphasizing best practices in software development, including framework selection, continuous integration, and testing in CS 222 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
• Facilitated problem identification and definition, idea generation and evaluation, and software implementation, testing, and deployment, enhancing team collaboration and project management skills.

Graduate Research Assistant

@NCSA, UIUC

Jan 2023 - Aug 2023

• Joined an elite team of professors and graduate students to work on a pollution detection project. My focus was to introduce new ways for detecting pollution such as vehicle acceleration data instead of traditional pollution sensors.
• Designed and developed a YOLOv8 system to detect vehicles and measure each detected vehicle’s position over time using the DEEPSORT algorithm to calculate its acceleration, providing valuable insights into traffic flow and patterns.
• Engineered a real-time data transmission system to seamlessly transfer vehicle acceleration data and camera positioning details to a MYSQL server.

Application of Random Forests for Air Quality Estimation in India by adopting terrain features

Published in: 2020 4th International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing (ICCCSP)

Publisher: IEEE

Date of Conference: 28-29 Sept. 2020

Conference Location: Chennai, India

Vice President

@Know - I Research Club, SVCE.

July 2020 - April 2021

Delivered informative seminars to impart fundamental computer science knowledge to junior participants and adeptly organized two national-level technical symposiums alongside a 24-hour hackathon

Joint Secretary

@Association of Computer Engineers, SVCE.

June 2019 - May 2020

Coordinated diverse technical and non-technical events such as Coding Competitions, Seminars, and Paper Presentations, demonstrating exceptional organizational skills.

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