Pranav Dhingra

Software Engineer @ Grubhub


Computer Science   +   Economics
Northwestern University '19


About

I graduated from Northwestern University, with a double major in Computer Science and Economics in June 2019.

My interests (at the moment) lie in Agile Development, Machine and Deep Learning and interdisciplinary applications with the field of Economics. I want to build clean software that makes an impact.

At my core, I’m a passionate learner, a do-er and an extremely determined soul. My motto is to be the best self I can, which is why I strive for excellence and constant progress in whatever I do.

For fun, I enjoy any music-related activity, doing tech side-projects, occasionally writing and always pushing my limits – whether it’s in the gym, out on the road or in the classroom.

Experience

Grubhub

Sep '19 - present
Chicago, USA

Software Engineer

Working on the decision services team, specifically on auto-dispatch of orders to drivers, at the nation's leading online and mobile food ordering and delivery marketplace.

Trax

June '18 - Sep '18
Tel Aviv, Israel

Algorithm Engineer Intern

I worked on the Computer Vision group building deep learning models for object detection and classification. Focused on debugging tools for deep networks based on feature visualization and attribution.

Truecaller

June '17 - Aug '17
Stockholm, Sweden

Software Engineering Intern

I aided with Android mobile app development and developed tools to streamline workflow within Platform engineering and Analytics teams.

A.T. Kearney

June '16 - Aug '16
Singapore

Summer Intern

I worked on a cost-optimisation project for a major steel-coated products manufacturer, doing analysis and research with a focus on marketing efficacy.

Projects

Santorini

A distributed version of the Santorini board game. An exercise in clean code.

Python
PyTest

StruggleBus

Strugglebus is an app that helps Northwestern students choose classes to take together.

Angular 2
Ionic
Firebase
Facebook API
TypeScript

MoodTrack

A moodtracker app for the staff of Lurie Children's Hospital.

React Native
Expo
AWS RDS (Postgres)
NodeJS
ExpressJS

Domain Web Crawler

Simple web crawler built for a coding challenge that returns a sitemap of a domain. BFS and DFS options for crawling available.

Python

ReactBot

SlackBot that reacts to my PhD student friend's messages with an older_man emoji.

Python
Flask
Slack API

Playlist Analytics

A webapp that evaluates your collaborative playlists, showing you top contributors and statistics about attributes aggregated over all songs.

ReactJS
Material UI
NodeJS
ExpressJS
Spotify API

TedX Messenger Bot

A Facebook Messenger Bot for the TedX Northwestern Conference 2016.

Python
Flask
FB Messenger API

Big Black Hole

A 2D game created for my EECS 111 class. Features a spaceship and a big, black hole.

Racket

Leadership

Teaching Assistantship

I've held teaching assistant positions in both the computer science and economics departments at Northwestern, where I've taught discussion sections, led office hours and done grading for courses. They include:

EECS/ENTREP 473: NUVention Web + Media
Winter + Spring 2019   Prof. Michael Marasco   Mentor developers and startups, Grading
EECS 396/496: Interactive Information Visualization
Spring 2019   Prof. Jessica Hullman   Office Hours, Grading
EECS 211: Fundamentals of Computer Programming 2
Spring 2018   Prof. Sara Sood   Office Hours, Grading
EECS 111: Fundamentals of Computer Programming 1
Winter 2018   Prof. Sara Sood   Discussion, Office Hours, Grading
EECS 348: Introduction to AI
Fall 2017   Prof. Kris Hammond   Office Hours, Grading
EECS 110: Programming for non-majors (Python)
Winter 2017   Prof. Oliver Cossairt   Office Hours, Grading
ECON 201: Introduction to Macroeconomics
Winter 2017   Prof. Mark Witte   Discussion, Office Hours, Grading

EPIC Technology - Director (2017 - 2018)

EPIC is the premiere entrepreneurship student group at Northwestern University. As director of tech, I led a team developing for student organisations and other clients including startups in the Garage (Northwestern’s hub and space for startups on campus).


NU Federal Reserve Challenge

I take part in the College Fed Challenge as part of of Northwestern's team, where I help lead team research efforts and present at the competition.

The Fed Challenge is a competition hosted by the Federal Reserve System where teams play the role of monetary policymakers by analyzing economic conditions and recommending a course for monetary policy. During my time on the team, we have: