Sai Pingali

Frederick, MD - pingali.sai@gmail.com - 240-566-5548

EDUCATION
University of Maryland College Park August 2018 - May 2022
GPA: 3.91
Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering Major
Project Management Minor
University Honors

First Year Innovation and Research Experience Program August 2018 - December 2019
• Three semester Capital One Machine Learning research stream.
• Participated in the Densely Annotated Video Object Segmentation Challenge 2019.
• Focused on developing a state of the art approach for object tracking by improving upon models such as
SiamMask and SiamFC.

Coursework: Object Oriented Programming, Digital Logic Design, Circuits, Introduction to Computer Systems, Analog
and Digital Electronics, Discrete Signal Analysis, Computer Organization, Programming Languages, Algorithms,
Concurrency
RELEVANT SKILLS
• Programming Languages: Java, Python, ReactJS, JS/HTML/CSS, MongoDB, SQL, C, Verilog, Matlab,
Arduino, Golang, Gremlin
RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Capital One TIP Software Engineering June 2021 - August 2021
• Analyzed communication between Capital One applications to provide a novel approach for modeling
interdependent risk that helps leaders better understand their cyber risk landscape.
• Automated data from NIST, MITRE, and Capital One's internal APIs in order to work with real time data on
vulnerabilities, software weaknesses, and traffic flow.
• Used SQL to query Snowflake tables to retrieve the most recent data pertaining to Capital One applications.
• Built a directed and weighted network graph visualization that mapped the relationships between Capital One
applications using a Gremlin Server and the D3.js visualization library.
Capital One Software Engineering Intern June 2020 - August 2020
• Worked on a compliance dashboard for tech executives to observe the health of the applications they manage at
Capital One.
• Implemented front-end designs to the user interface using React.js.
• Queried Snowflake databases to gather application data from multiple different Capital One services.
• Served this data to the front-end through API endpoints implemented in Golang.
• Helped debug issues with a new version of a failover automation tool used by Capital One developers by
writing unit tests in Python and utilizing the Boto3 library to get low level access of AWS services.
Capital One Software Engineering Intern May 2019 - December 2019
• Built a full stack web application for an application security scanner developed by Capital One.
• Retrieved data from a NoSQL MongoDB database and built RESTful API using Flask.
• Created a data visualization dashboard in JavaScript utilizing visualization libraries such as D3.js that retrieved
data by making Ajax calls.
• Only intern project that made it to QA and was planned to be deployed to production.

OTHER EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant August 2021 - Current
• Helping computer science students with their course projects at office hours and online via Piazza.
• Assisting the professor in grading assessments and providing feedback for the students.
Engineers Without Borders August 2018 - December 2019
• Collaborated with the power team in conducting a pre-assessment report of the town of Obrachere, Ghana.
• Gained an understanding of the calculations required to install solar panels in a new country and connecting
them to charge controllers and inverters.
• Utilized P-V and I-V graphs to optimize the output power of the panels.