Software Engineer 3 at PayPal

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Lakshmikant Deshpande

- The application was supposed to scrape data from thousands of sources (webpages, PDFs, XMLs etc.)
- Created the application from scratch. Designed, and completed the project single handedly. Worked with the client to understand their needs. 
- Wrote web crawlers / scrapers  for collecting data from thousands of webpages / documents from the internet. 
- Captured the data in the structured format, and stored in various sources (Excel and MySQL database) for later analysis. 
- Technologies: Python3 (BeautifulSoup, Scrapy, OpenPyXL, PyMySQL, LXML), MySQL, Git

Python Web Scraping Solution

- The web application was designed to support different methods to create a booklet for policy documents in different languages. The application used to take rules as input, and push the information in JSON format to another server which then created a PDF out of the given information and print it.
- It was built using Spring Boot, Angularjs, and MySQL. 
- I worked on the back end of this application.
- I was responsible for creation of Rest APIs, definition of new database table structures, JSON request/response structure, developing excel file parsing functionality using Apache POI, writing unit tests, testing REST Apis on Postman etc. 
- I was also responsible for writing complex SQL queries to retrieve the data from the server.
- Received an award for writing bug free code.
- Technologies: Java (Spring Boot, J2EE, JUnit, Drools Rules Engine), Git, Maven

Insurance Policy Document Builder

- The application was supposed to send push notifications to the registered client handsets (Android / Windows Phone). 
- We developed a POC for Mithi's flagship email software.
- Led a team of four for the BE project.
- I was responsible for the development of an Android application, and the PHP backend. 
- We wrote a server side code for sending push notifications to the registered users, and mobile applications for respective platforms (Android and Windows Phone). 
- Technologies: Java, Android, C#, PHP, MySQL etc.