Union Pacific Railroad – Software Engineer Intern; Omaha, NE and Austin, TX May 2015 – Present
•Streamed RAC logs into Hadoop Distributed File System using Apache Flume while converting into JSON format and created a dashboard with Kibana 4 so Database Administrators and other users could monitor and troubleshoot database environment
•Wrote configuration files for streaming along with Interceptors and Serializers to sanitize the data going into HDFS and Elastic Search
•Wrote scripts used to test if the secondary NameNode would take over once the primary NameNode was killed in Hadoop, an important step before going into production
•Placed 3rd in UP's annual Hackathon where we successfully identified wheels, bearings, and capscrews on a dimly lit, grayscale image of a train car using the OpenCV library. Project will be put towards automating train car inspections to increase time efficiency.