1. Pranav Menon
(319) 213-6860
menon1@purdue.edu
https://github.com/pranavmenon
Objective:
To obtain a full time job in the field of Computer Science
Education:
Purdue University – West Lafayette, Indiana 05/2016
 Major: Computer Science, with focus in Systems Programming and Software Engineering
 Minor: Economics
 GPA: 3.41
Technical Skills:
 Familiar programming languages: Java, C/C++, HTML, JavaScript , PHP and MATLAB
 Experience in Android development
 Knowledge of Version Control (Git)
Work Experience:
Amazon 05/2015 – 08/2015
Software Development Engineer Intern
 Created a monitoring system that checks for errors on ‘Amazon Instant Video’ pages, and sends a notification to the
appropriate responder if any errors were found
 Designed and developed a dashboard that displayed the internal structure of different pages
 Gained experience in designing, implementing, and testing software
Purdue University 05/2014 – 05/2015
CS Undergraduate TA
 Designed and developed new projects for the Computer Architecture and the System Programming courses
 Created automatic grading programs for these labs in order to help the TAs grade these labs
 Answered students’ questions on an online forum
Extracurricular Activities:
Boiler Robotics 09/2012 - Present
Software Team - Vice President
 Innovation Award at Vex Robotics World Championship (April 2014)
 Wrote the software for a custom built line tracking sensor
 Implemented a PID control algorithm for the robot’s arm and the robot’s line following function
 Gained experience in working with a big team of 12+ members
Side Projects:
Real-Time Scripting 11/2015
 Working on an open source project designed to help participants of the VEX Robotics competition
 Allows users to quickly generate, and execute autonomous commands on their robot using a simple GUI
 Uses optimized TCP to communicate with the robot
Search Engine 04/2015
 Created a crawler that indexed the ‘cs.purdue.edu’ domain
 Created a search engine using the information obtained by the crawler
 Implemented a simple page rank algorithm
Stock Market Checker 05/2014
 Created a bash script that monitors the stocks of a selected company on money.cnn.com
 Utilized a CLI mail tool to send text message alerts for situations important to the user
 The script successfully extracts the correct data even if the layout of the website changes during the day
Campus Feed 04/2014
 Created an Android app that allows users to post information about any events taking place on campus
 Scraped events from an official university event website using the JSoup library for Java
 1st
place in the Google coding competition held at Purdue