Phalgun Rangaraju

1049 Moray Drive, Inverness, IL 60010 | Phone: (847) 754-6885 | E-Mail: phalgun.rangaraju@gmail.com | phalgun.weebly.com

Education
B.S. Computer Engineering

Graduation May 2015

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Related coursework:
Intro to Robotics

Data Structures & Algorithms

Computer Systems Engineering

Entrepreneurship in Engineering

Database Systems

Intro to Data Mining

Software Engineering

User Interface Design

Professional Experience
Software Development Intern, Amazon.com

Champaign, IL

Fall 2013 Fall 2014

Developing a browser extension to detect accessibility of a website and report improper coding practices
Creating examples of W3C accepted rules to accessible web coding practices using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
See dev.oaa-accessibility.org/examples/ for more information

Technology Analyst Intern, Sears Holdings Corporation

Summer 2014

Developed backend APIs using Java and Spring framework to insert and query seller data from Dynamo DB tables
Built a front-end module in sellercentral.amazon.com to make requests to APIs and load returned data using Perl

Web Developer, Disability Resources and Educational Services

Seattle, WA

Hoffman Estates, IL

Summer 2013

Built support website for the portal team using CMS software (DotNetNuke) that was utilized by >20 business teams
Presented results achieved during internship to department heads and VPs throughout the company

Projects
Smart POS (Point of Sales)

Designed a point of sales device that allows mobile payments and in-store mobile ordering using Raspberry Pi and card reader
Developed front-end of mobile app with Cordova framework (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), back-end functionality with Parse framework

Co-founded web-based start-up, fareshare.us

Summer 2013 Spring 2014

Developed a college ride-sharing network (website and iOS application) utilizing PHP and Bootstrap
Led the front-end development and marketing/financial operations of the company, which launched January 2014

Social Web Application, gcplanner.web.engr.illinois.edu

Spring 2015

Spring 2013

Coded the front-end with use of Bootstrap & jQuery frameworks as part of company-led coding competition
Applied concepts of technical consulting to clearly communicate and present our solution to the client (West Monroe Partners LLC)
Won first place prize in the competition among seven teams from two top-tier universities

Leadership
Co-founder of ITI (Illinois Technology Innovators)

Launching a student club to provide software solutions to technology and consulting firms; requests are delegated as projects to
members

External Relations Director of PURE, https://wiki.engr.illinois.edu/display/PURE/Home

Fall 2012 - present

PURE (Promoting Undergraduate Research in Engineering) encourages underclassmen to pursue research early on in their careers
Manage outreach to professors and graduate students and maintain PURE website to ensure full functionality

Technical Skills

Summer 2013 - present

Languages/Frameworks: Java, C, C++, Spring, Objective-C, Python, x86 assembly

Web development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, AWS (Dynamo DB, S3)
Development software: Eclipse, Xcode, Mentor Graphics, Matlab, LabVIEW, SVN, git
Operating systems: Linux, Windows, Mac OS X