Nautatava Navlakha

• Bachelor of Technology - Civil Engineering
• Minors - Computer Science and Engineering

• Senior Secondary School

Summer Associate

• Received a Pre-Placement Offer for exceptional performance over the course of internship as a summer associate
• Improved the core part of the product - "bond master engine" by making it user-friendly to access 105 features on the run while taking care not to break already running application and other dependencies over the module
• Developed Bond Master template from scratch using ExtJS; API written in Java with Spring, Hibernate and Hazelcast
• Created self-updating views from MySQL tables for UCM integration and better data visualization from the backend
• Validated the CDS market portfolio using first-principles and performed simulations to ensure robustness taking into consideration ISDA market standards and verified the obtained results with Markit Calculator given by ISDA

MERN Stack Developer

• Implemented single page progressive web application using React JS which fetches data from API dynamically
• Integrated Google Analytics, Google Jobs and SEO into the web-app to increase the web-reach of the application
• Used Server-Side Rendering and service-worker for faster loading times and offline functioning of job applications
• Ensured the applications received in career page reached the S3 storage and the application data were backed up in MongoDB in case MySQL isn’t reached at the moment
• Built the Landing page from scratch using ExpressJs, Jade Templating Engine with sprites for better performance

SEO Analyst

• Worked with a team of marketers and analysts to learn Search Engine Optimisation from scratch
• Analysed keywords, competitors, backlinks, content, and other marketing tactics using tools like Google Webmasters, Ahrefs and SEOquake to provide creative and effective SEO solutions
• Ensuring content is updated by working with Content and Engineering team to improve page rankings
• Measures taken due to SEO analysis led to as much as 50% increase in organic traffic on webpages and improvement in google ranking in just 20 days of implementation

• Complete responsibility to manage gymkhana servers.
• Established headless servers with hard disk mirroring and weekly backups for easy recovery in any event of failure. Also maintained almost 0% downtime even in case of hardware failure and replacement
• Managed the institute internet and LDAP access using SSO.
• Automated room allotment system by developing python scripts to allocate 1100+ freshers based on given rules
• Part of a 3-member Election Committee developing and implementing the required infrastructure for polling

• Scraped data from institute internship blog using BeautifulSoup(Python) and analysed the data data for internships company trends at IIT Bombay
• Fact checked and corrected data using excel. Used pie charts and line plots for visual representations

• Designed an android app with Django backend for a 3-tier surveying model – Administrator, Manager, Surveyor
• Manager can log in to the backend system to change the set of questions from the options provided by the administrator
• Surveyors login to the app for starting their survey tasks as given by their respective managers. The responses are validated and uploaded on a server where admin/head can download the responses for inspection as a spreadsheet
• Equipped the app with location detection Geocode APIs to replace the traditional approach of pen-paper based survey with faster auto-fillable digital survey methodology; Also maintains a count of the number of surveys taken
• Used the app model to acquire and find studying trends of 117 students from different academic programs

• Designed a new website for NSS and got a perfect audit score of 100 for SEO, performance as well as best practices on every page. Audits done using Google Lighthouse
• Analytics reports proved a y-o-y user bump of 106.3%
• Ideated inventory for NSS so to make things available at convenience when needed and reduce costs

• Complete ideation, designing and programming for the Techfest Android Application using Android studio. App released on Play Store with user ratings of 4.7 out of 5 stars
• Designed mobile responsive, websites from scratch for different events organized by Techfest incase anyone doesn't have the app installed

• Part of a 4-membered team responsible for the ideation and execution of initiatives of the department like Cloth Collection Campaign, Meals of content, (L)earn a living while mentoring 40+ freshmen
• Architected the content for Invisible Humans, an initiative by NSS, IIT Bombay to bring light upon the unheard stories of people on campus to reach and motivate 50K+ people nationwide
• Proposed and executed new activities to sensitise the volunteers and find solutions to problems faced by the people living in Orphanage and Old-age homes all over Mumbai

• Edited using Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects for VFX effects in a 3 day film project fully funded by the institute

• Made vectors for visiting card, writing pad and Logo from scratch in Adobe illustrator for Freshieza - Freshers competition in IIT Bombay
• Awarded 2nd Prize amongst more than 15 teams for unique thought and apealling design concept
• Nominated for hostel logo for accurate features and eye-catching design