Prashant Mahanta

I am a graduate in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City, A.P. My interests include Competitive Programming, NLP, and Information Visualization. I am very active on many Competitive Programming websites such as Codechef, Codeforces, Hackerrank, and Hackerearth

I take interest in learning about life through movies and TV series (open to recommendations). I like to invest in long, informed, and elaborate discussions about technology, religion, movies, humans, politics; not necesarily in that order.


            

Experience

Mentor@GSSoC'20

Worked as a mentor for the project Jarvis Virtual Assistant at GirlScript Summer of Code'20 organised by GirlScript Foundation

Mar 2020 - May 2020

Software Developer Intern

I worked as an intern during summers, under Prof. Yalla Veera Prakash. I was involved in building a annotation tool, which is completely build using JavaScript. The annotation tool will be used to annotate different regions and to store attributes to the regions.

I was also involved in tasks such as: Identify title in legal documents and questions-answers pairs from legal document(using NLP).

May 2019 - July 2019

Opensource Contributor

GirlScript Summer of Code' 19

I participated on GirlScript Summer of Code'19 and was recognised as Top Contributor this year. You can read my Blog here.

March 2019 - May 2019

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Sri City, Signals and Systems

I worked as the TA of Signal and Systems course for the Freshman students at IIIT Sri City, under Prof. Anish Turlapaty.I am involved in teaching a batch of 130 students. Conduct labs and tutorials for the students as a part of the course.

January 2019 - April 2019

Teaching Assistant

IIIT Sri City, Maths - 3

I was the TA of Maths-3 for the Sophomore students at IIIT Sri City, under Prof. Rangeet Mitra. The course deals with Probability Theory and Complex Analysis. I was involved in teaching a batch of 140 students. Conduct tutorials for the students as a part of this course.

September 2018 - November 2018

Event Coordinator

Techfesia, 2018

I was the coordinator of the Reverse Coding in Techfesia 2018, annual technical Fest of IIIT Sri City. I was involved in preparing questions and testcases for the contest. Around 220 people had participated in the contest.

September - 2018

Education

Indian Institute of Information Technology, Sri City

Bachelor of Technology
Computer Science and Engineering

CGPA: 8.5

August 2016 - Present

Vikas Vidyaniketan

Intermediate

Percentage: 93.6 %

June 2013 - April 2015

Kendriya Vidyalaya, Keonjhar

Schooling
August 2003 - March 2013

Skills

Programming Languages & Tools
Workflow
  • Mobile-First, Responsive Design
  • Cross Browser Testing & Debugging
  • Cross Functional Teams
  • Agile Development & Scrum

Interests

Apart from being a software developer, I enjoy most of my time being outdoors. I enjoy exploring new places, free climbing, and kayaking.

When forced indoors, I follow a number of sci-fi and fantasy genre movies and web series, I am an aspiring chef, and I spend a large amount of my free time contributing into Open Source Projects such as GSSOC.


Awards & Certifications