Statement of Purpose: Reflection on My College Days

Statement of purpose

Always amused with the power the computers possessed and the technological advancements, I wanted to explore the limits to which the computer can utilize the computational power to help make our life easier and more interesting. I have decided to pursue my Master’s in Computer Science. In this innovative world of Computer Technology, where each new day sees a plethora of new concepts and emergence of new trends, one is inspired to stay abreast with the latest.

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.” A motto that I always follow, as it was clearly explained to me by my grandfather, who was an educator. My parents being educated to a level of graduation always supported me in pursuing my interests and provided me all the required guidance. I have secured 9.7 GPA in my tenth standard and choose to take Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry as my subjects for the two-year intermediate course where I secured 93% and was one of the top students in my college. Having mathematics in my intermediate laid a strong foundation for me in taking up Computer science as my specialization course in under graduation.

I have pursued under graduation in GITAM university (http://www.gitam.edu/), which is renowned as one of the best private universities in the southern India and has a strong Computer Science courses. The curriculum ensured that all my fundamentals in programming are strong and the practical exposure gave me adequate knowledge on subjects including Database Management Systems (DBMS), Data Mining etc. During the first year in under graduation, I have been taught the basic programming language C which was very helpful and laid a strong foundation for my programming knowledge. Fascinated with the way the programming language could get my job done in computers I explored many more programming languages such as C++, JAVA, and Python and understood which one is better and why it's better than the other.

During my second year of under graduation, I have started to investigate more into how the programming knowledge that I gained can be made into use in the daily life of a person to make his life easier. This led me to registering in the android development certification course provided by Aspire Vision Tech a Microsoft-affiliated teaching institute. The course on android development helped me in gaining the knowledge on how to make the programming useful for the end-user in his daily life. I have been one of the best students in the courseware and developed an application called “Places nearby” which was mainly focused in helping a person in finding out the nearest ATMs, Restaurants, Hospitals etc in his vicinity. This was regarded as the best application developed in the course and was also published into the Google play store. After getting certified as an android developer and SQL developer by MICROSOFT, I tried creating gaming apps. In that attempt, I created a game named Cows and bulls, which was published in Google play store. I also received an appreciation from a software company “Osmosys Software Solutions” located in Hyderabad for testing out their application “Wishlist.Do” and providing a valuable feedback.

During my third year of under graduation, I have been introduced to concepts such Design Analysis and Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Data Warehousing, and Data Mining. These concepts created a new way at looking the codes and the data that is available. I was always more practical into these concepts and was trying to implement them. This helped me in my final year project “Trend Analysis Through Elicitation of Trending Tweets” where I lead a team of four members in developing a clustering algorithm by collecting the latest tweets from the social website Twitter. This was one of the best live analysis projects developed in our university.

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After my third year, I wanted to have an exposure the culture in the software companies and know-how of a company and project works. An internship in “Tech Mahindra” a leading software company, helped me gaining this knowledge. I have been deployed into an automation team in the company where I have helped in building an automation tool for the network outage issues. This also heled me in gaining some of the knowledge regarding the networking.

I was one of the top 25 students from my college to get selected in “Deloitte USI”. I have started working in Deloitte right after my graduation and over the period of last one and half year I have gained more exposure into the filed of software development. I was also promoted for the best performance in the peer group. I my current role as “Software Engineer 1”, I have been closely working on the Database Management of the product. This resulted in gaining a profound knowledge in the SQL and Database management system. I also work on the creating and maintain the API’s and have a good knowledge regarding the AWS cloud platform.

Recently, I have received a chance to work on developing the Prediction Algorithms in the product. I have been sent over to Delhi where I was working closely with the data scientists in the company for developing the model. This helped me in gaining the exposure to the data science role and created an interest in honing up my skills related to the artificial intelligence and data science roles.

I am always up to date with the changes and the advancements in the programming languages and technology by following some of the websites and magazines such as INFOQ, DIGIT and CHIP. During my four-year course I was participating in many competitions in college and online and was gaining much-needed exposure into the world of programming. In the beginning I was overwhelmed by the questions asked in the competitions and was working hard to understand and implement many new techniques into my coding which led me to a path of understanding the algorithms and their working. This knowledge helped me later in bagging many prizes in my college technical evens and online. I have also cleared the first round of CodeVita a programming contest held by India’s one of the top companies TATA Consultancy Services (TCS), for three consecutive years.

Additionally, to the academic achievements I also feel having a good physical activity helps in maintain a good physical and mental health. This is the reason I am involved into most of the outdoor games and achieved some medals in the roller-skating competitions during my childhood. I am an active member in one of the charities located in Visakhapatnam “P V Sahaya Charitable Trust” and conducted many free health camps and blood donation camps. I also participated in the National Service Scheme (NSS) an Indian government-sponsored public service program conducted by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India, during my college days and led few campaigns such as cleaning the city etc.

My academic and professional experience thus far has provided me with a wide range of practical knowledge and skills that will be immensely useful when studying overseas at the graduate level. —adding university-specific matter