# Radha Prashanthi Aakula Chinna > Software Engineer at Zillow Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/radhaprashanthiaakulachinna ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Zillow Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States ### Graduate Student Tutor @ University of San Francisco Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Software Engineer Intern @ Cyborg Inc. Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States Project​ : Stealth Searchable Compression ​ - Built Enhanced Searchable Compression to improve the compression size by 8% and search accuracy in C. - Developed testing framework in Python to test search accuracy. - Integrated Stealth search to LZ bench framework and automated ​ grep system call to test search speed and reliability on Cloud in C++. - Stored the search results in MySQL database and created dashboards using Metabase to analyze search patterns and detect errors. ### Graduate Research Assistant @ University of San Francisco Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Project​ :​ Identifying Fear and Anxiety in the text using NLP ​ Domain​ : Machine Learning - Built a web scraping tool in Python to scrape Coronavirus articles from the top 5 newspapers and created a dataset. - Developed a Neural Network to classify sentiment in the dataset as either fear or anxiety to support psychological studies between textual interactions and actual emotions. ### Solutions Engineer @ Pegasystems Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Hyderabad Area, India Project​​: Knowledge Management Domain​​: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Summary​​: Built a framework using PRPC tool and Java that extracts information related to help site articles, frequently asked questions in community discussions and web chats from various client resources (like databases and API’s) to store it in a centralized database (Postgres) by creating data models. The framework will then mine this big data from data sources and sends a cleaner version of the data by filtering out profane words using text analytics and machine learning algorithms. ### Associate Solutions Engineer @ Pegasystems Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Hyderabad Area, India Experience in working on Customer Relationship Management applications. • Experience in PRPC 7.x ,8.x development. • Expertise in Knowledge Management application. Designed and implemented various KM features. • Hands on experience with latest PRPC case management features. • Worked on Activities, Data Pages, Data Transforms, Reports, Declare rules, Decision rules, Web mashup, NLP text analyzer, DWA and many more. • Clear Understanding of Clipboard, tracer and various tools provided in PRPC • Hands on experience with advanced UI features of Pega 7 and Pega 8. • Experience with agile development methodologies like SCRUM and performed role of a Scrum Master at various times. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University College Of Engineering Osmania Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Hyderabad Area, India Keyword Search on Encrypted Data Research on developing a service to search for a keyword on encrypted data without decrypting using Java and Red Hat Linux. - Researched and provided cryptographic schemes for highest degree of security to data - Provided research findings on AES 128 bit encryption and Dawn Xiaodong Song’s algorithms - Created and submitted research reports. ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ University College Of Engineering Osmania Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Hyderabad Area, India Sentiment Analysis of Online Movie Reviews. Analyzed whether the opinion expressed in movie reviews is positive or negative to give an overall feedback to the movie. - Handed over extracted data of movie reviews from various websites (both formal and informal) - Assisted with Converting the data to English language using google translator.. - Provided NLP techniques on the data sets to find out the sentiment of the reviews. - Determined negation scope by implementing various algorithms like Rest of the Sentence (RoS), Dependency Analysis (DA) in Python. - Prepared reports on research methodology and conclusions. ### Student Volunteer @ Street Cause Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Hyderabad Area, India As a student of Osmania University, organized and participated in various events held as part of Street Cause, OU ## Education ### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science University of San Francisco ### Bachelor's degree - BE in Computer Science and Engineering Osmania University ### Mathematics in Physics and Chemistry Sri Chaitanya Junior College ### All Saints' High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/radha-prashanthi - Website: https://www.github.com/radhaprashanthi --- Source: https://flows.cv/radhaprashanthiaakulachinna JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/radhaprashanthiaakulachinna/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05