Nazib Sorathiya

(831) 400-9230 · nssorath@ucsc.edu

I am a master's student in Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I have received my Bachelors of Engineering from Ramdeobaba College of Engineering and Management, India in Computer Science and Engineering.

I enjoy going on long roadtrips and once went on for a 4,500 km roadtrip in Spain and Portugal. I am also enthusiastic about adventure activities like Scuba diving, sky diving, mountaineering, trekking, etc.

After a long week nothing can beat a board game night !!!


Experience

Graduate Teaching Assitant

University of California Santa Cruz
  • Mentored a class of around 100 students for projects and course-work and designed the examinations for Machine Learning and Data Mining under Prof. Snigdha Chaturvedi
October 2019 - December 2019

Associate Consultant

Oracle Financial Services and Software
  • Designed and developed HTTP SOAP Webservices to integrate China National Advance Payment System able to handle 110,000 transactions per hour
  • Led a team of 2 and worked with the director to ensure delivery, planning and streamlining for the upgrade of core banking infrastructure for two large banks in Taiwan and Canada
  • Increased efficiency by 91% using shell scripts for code deployment, creating testing environments, and patch deployment
  • Fixed discrepancies in the core modules such as fund transfer and interest calculation, used by around 300 customers in 115 countries
  • Automated process of inspecting user’s entitlements reducing manual effort from 96 hours to 15 mins
August 2016 - June 2019

Software Engineering Intern

Aasaan (by Sanist Technology)
  • Programmed micro-services and modified REST APIs for user payments and wallet, user signup/login, and third party delivery integrations for the chat-based application catering to 18,000 users
  • Built API crawlers to crawl data daily from top hotel booking & food delivery platforms decreasing the ordering time by 82% in the chat-based application
  • Streamlined payments processing, transacting $10 Million annually, by Integrating STRIPE using webhooks
December 2015 - August 2016

Co-founder

Maholmeal.com
  • Collaborated with the local restaurant chain and created a portal to customize daily meals and save user preferences to feed hygienic, tasty and affordable food daily to around 130 students
January 2015 - February 2016

Education

University of California Santa Cruz

Master of Science
Computer Science and Engineering

GPA: 3.65

September 2019 - June 2021

Shri Ramdoebaba College of Engineering and Management

Bachelors of Engineering
Computer Science and Engineering

GPA: 8.08

August 2012 - May 2016

Projects

Deepfake Detection

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  • Building a DeepFake Detection model to identify manipulated media to detect malicious misinformation and manipulative sources
January 2020 - Present

Sentiment Detection using Audio Processing

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  • Designed a model utilizing ensemble technique on overlapping sentiments to obtain multi-class classification by using Support Vector Machine while achieving an accuracy of 81.43% proving the hypothesis "emotion is independent of language"
January 2016 - May 2016

Recommendation System based on Hybrid Filtering Technique

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  • Built a recommendation algorithm capitalizing collaborative and content-based filtering technique taking into account user preferences enabling users to receive personalized fashion recommendations
August 2015 - November 2015

QUOTE: Broadcast Messaging based Social Network

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  • Developed an instant message broadcasting android application leveraging Google Cloud Messaging and equipped with electronic signature and feedback mechanism facilitating users to bookmark and rebroadcast favorite quotes, news, etc.
January 2015 - May 2015

Volunteer Experience

Full Stack Developer

Aga Khan Health Services
  • Built a platform that helps volunteers collect and store the medical history of people of the community along with the information of various awareness programs attended to analyze their medical history. This will help to improve healthcare by conducting regular medical check-ups and arranging vaccination camps, awareness programs, etc. for over 110,000 people.
August 2017 - July 2019

SStudent Committee Head

International Conference on Electronic Systems, Signal Processing and Computing Technologies
  • Served as the head of the student committee in the IEEE's International Conference on Electronic Systems, Signal Processing and Computing Technologies (ICESC-2014) collaborating with multiple teams to provide a smooth experience to 2000+ scholars from around the world.
January 2014

Teaching Co-ordinator

IEEE students branch
  • Copnducted multiple workshops for freshmen and sophomores on basics of programming, algorithms, and robotics providing them early exposure to programming and robotics.
October 2014 - December 2014