Hi there! I'm Siddhesh Karekar, a graduate student at the University of Southern
California, pursuing my MS in Computer Science.
Since May 2018, I'm a Full Stack Developer Intern at SupplyFrame in Pasadena, CA. As a Framer, I'm mainly working on Hackaday.io, a community for hardware enthusiasts and innovators. Check it out!
Coding since the age of 13, software development and innovation has always been my
passion. I have fueled it by developing several projects. Keep scrolling to check them out, also feel free to get in touch with me at siddhesh.r.karekar@gmail.com!
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Super Fruit Riot is an Android game similar to Candy Crush, with the interesting twist that you play
against an AI, as compared to most variants where you aim to outscore yourself.
The AI is a Minimax agent with Alpha-Beta pruning. It dynamically selects a lookahead depending on
its remaining team. The objective of the game is to score more points than the AI before the board
runs out of fruits.
This project was co-developed with Rohit Sahasrabuddhe, my classmate at the University of Southern
California. I additionally designed custom 2D art assets for this game in Adobe Photoshop.
(The original command-line game, 'Fruit Rage', was developed as an assignment for the Artificial
Intelligence course at USC, later reinvented by us as a fun visual game.)
DbTrack was developed by students of K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering (Hemang Tailor, Chintan
Doshi and Akshat Gandhi) to help officers of the Mumbai Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to manage their
employees.
In 2015, the ACB needed updates to the system with additional features. I revised the login module
and storage mechanisms, implementing additional security features such as CAPTCHA, password hashing
and a password reset function.
My responsibilities also included providing technical support using TeamViewer to solve
configuration and network issues, and deploying the updated software on the ACB computers.
In a team of 6 including myself, we conducted several training sessions for the police to educate
them on the software's usage, and prepared technical documentation in both English and the native
language, Marathi.
From the left: Ashutosh Mahajan, Bhushan Pathak, Siddhesh Karekar
(me), Aditya Godambe, Chinmay Karanjkar, Amogh Bhabal.
K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering awarded us with a Letter of Appreciation for our efforts.
For any organization that serves customers, profiling their users is important, so as to target them
with relevant information.
Deimos is a Java-based system that aims to help doing the same. It estimates the user's demographic
attributes - specifically, their age, gender and interests, by analyzing web pages they have visited.
It uses a TF-IDF classifier to analyize browser history, which is later fed into a neural network to
generate output. The system allows visualizing output in the form of a nice tag cloud:
During our tests, the system was applied to shopping website data to profile viewers based on
visited web pages, and performed with reasonable accuracy.
We've published a research paper in the International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA) on our
results! You can find a link to the research we've published, as well as the source code on GitHub
below.
Date: May 2016 - May 2017
Client: K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering (final year project)
Dots is an attempt to recreate the pencil-and-paper children's game of Dots and Boxes.
The game features a Swing GUI, but is also fully functional via the console. The GUI allows you to
customize the number of players, each player getting their own unique color.
Rules are the same: Players take turns joining two horizontally or vertically adjacent dots by a
line. When a player completes a 1×1 box, they 'win' that square and play again. The player
who has colored more boxes wins when all boxes are colored.
Date: September 2014 - October 2014
Client: K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering (coursework for Object-Oriented Programming)
Livfit is a fitness website made in a team of 4 using PHP, XML and JavaScript, showcasing features
like:
- Workout planner (Sign-in required)
- Diet planner (Sign-in required)
- Exercise knowledgebase pulled from XML
- Interactive Quizzes for fun
- BMI Calculator
It was meant to demonstrate what a full-fledged fitness website would look like.
Date: July 2015 - October 2015
Client: K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering (part of Web Technologies Coursework)
Grylle is a demonstration of beautiful web design possible using only HTML and IE-friendly CSS
(without all the modern hoopla). It is the home
page for a fictitional restaurant.
Date: January 2018
Client: University of Southern California (part of Web Technologies Coursework)
Audio/visuals created using FL Studio, Vegas and Photoshop
Apart from software development, I'm also passionate about music and graphic design.
My YouTube channel provides a creative outlet for these passions. I recreate instrumentals for
popular songs using FL Studio, then design graphics and karaoke lyric videos set to them using Adobe
Photoshop and Sony Vegas Pro.
To date, I've amassed ~5000 subscribers, and ~3 million views on my videos! Do check them out if
you're interested in music and karaoke.
