About me
Aditya Chellam
I believe in using technology to solve people's problems and making the world a better place. I am passionate about connecting ideas to people in an inclusive, open and supportive environment that fosters rapid growth and innovation.
"People Inspire People"
adityachellam@gmail.com
Education
VIT University, Vellore
Computer Science and Engineering
CGPA : 9.05
BVM - Bhavan's Bhartiya Vidya Mandir,
Civil Lines
12th Boards (CBSE - Science Stream with Math)
Percentage : 93.80 %
Modern School, Koradi
10th Boards (CBSE)
CGPA : 10/10
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Awarded the designation Certified Scrum Product Owner® on this day, March 10, 2021, for completing the prescribed requirements for this certification.
Google Analytics Individual Qualification
The Google Analytics Individual Qualification covers basic and advanced Google Analytics concepts. This includes: planning and principles; implementation and data collection; configuration and administration; conversion and attribution; and reports, metrics, and dimensions.
Cisco Certified Specialist - Web Content Security
Earners of Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Identity Management have demonstrated knowledge of Cisco Web Security Appliance, including proxy services, authentication, decryption policies differentiated traffic access policies and identification policies, acceptable use control settings, malware defense, and data security and data loss prevention.
Cisco Certified DevNet Associate
Earners of Cisco Certified DevNet Associate have demonstrated knowledge at the associate level in software development and design, understanding and using APIs, application deployment and security, and infrastructure and automation on Cisco platforms.
Cisco Certified Specialist - Network Security Firepower
Earners of Cisco Certified Specialist - Network Security Firepower have demonstrated a candidate's knowledge of Cisco Firepower® Threat Defense and Firepower®, including policy configurations, integrations, deployments, management, and troubleshooting.
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Security)
This certification validates the skills required of associate-level network professionals to develop a security infrastructure, recognize threats and vulnerabilities to networks and mitigate security threats.
Cisco Certified Network Associate (Routing and Switching)
This certification validates the skills required of associate-level network professionals to understand network fundamentals, LAN switching technologies, IPv4 and IPv6 routing technologies, WAN technologies, infrastructure services, security, and management.
The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
This certificate validates basic knowledge on the fundamentals of digital marketing, and helping businesses grow online by utilizing the various digital marketing tools available online.
Advanced Google Analytics
Advanced Google Analytics covers how data gets collected and processed into readable reports. The course also demonstrates more advanced analysis techniques using segmentation, channel reports, audience reports, and custom reports, as well as marketing strategies like remarketing and Dynamic Remarketing that show ads to customers who have visited your website.
Google Analytics for Beginners
Google Analytics for Beginners shows new users how to create an account, implement tracking code, and set up data filters. One learn's how to navigate the Google Analytics interface and reports, and set up dashboards and shortcuts. The course also demonstrates how to analyze basic Audience, Acquisition, and Behavior reports, and set up goals and campaign tracking.
Product Management First Steps
This course provides a comprehensive overview of product management and takes one through the six stages of the product life cycle (PLC): research, plan, build, release, refine, and retire. The course also covers concepts such as examining what elements make up a quality extended team, exploring the components of managing a life cycle and recognizing how to monitor progress using a burndown chart.
Hubspot Sales Enablement Certified
The bearer of this certificate is hereby deemed knowledgeable in the basics of developing a marketing-driven sales enablement strategy. They have been tested on best practices that focus on implementing industry standards in sales and marketing and evaluating sales enablement technology.
Skills
My best asset is my experience of working in a customer support role early on in my corporate journey. That experience shaped my thought process to always put the customer’s requirements first. Thus whenever I start conceptualizing a product, I begin with a clear vision of solving problems FOR THE CUSTOMER. That vision helps shape all the decisions made for the product.
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Technology Proficiency
Management Proficiency
Awards and publications
CX TAC Lead Generation Program - Start Line FY20
Congratulations, you achieved the CX Lead Generation Platform START Line Award!! Generating your first Lead in FY20 you proved to be able to Help our customers with ""Beyond the Fix"" Services by identifying and capturing customer’s technology and service needs and passing them to the Sales organization through the CX Lead Generation Platform program. The CX Lead Generation Platform's team is grateful for your contribution in FY20 & we are looking forward for you to further contribute in FY21.
Innovate Everywhere Award - Thank you for being a source of inspiration!
Hi Aditya, thank you for being a constant source of inspiration and support. I really admire the consistency you have shown in delivering results and your work ethic is unparalleled. Really glad to see you grow and be recognized as a finalist in the Innovation Challenge! Kudos to your efforts and all the best for the finals!
You Inspire 3 Award - Outstanding contribution in ISE Breaker tool
Great work done Aditya in ISE breaker tool. This tool is already gaining popularity & currently being used by SDM's. Thanks for leveraging your coding & scripting knowledge & help in getting this completed successfully.
You Inspire 3 Award - Inclusion and Diversity Accelerator
Hi Aditya, You have received various accolades for the great work you have been doing with the tools with the technical leadership. This recognition is for taking initiatives during Chrismas to bring the team together and plan the secret santa which such enthusiam. it is great to see you contribute on so many fronts.
You Inspire 2 Award - Thanks for making our lives easier
Hey Aditya, Thanks for your relentless work on the FCResourceUtil script. It is going to make analysis of logs and diagnosing problems with individual processes much easier. All of this within the first few months of picking cases is even more remarkable. Look forward to more such utilities from you.
You Inspire 2 Award - Great work on project "wireless automation tool
Hi Aditya, I wanted to appreciate the hard work you did on wireless automation tool. Your quick learning and implementation of python on this project was commendable. I like the fresh energy interns bring to Cisco and you were extraordinary. Being consistent is key to success and I never saw you dropping the ball throughout the time we worked on this project. I wish you all the best for whatever you choose in future! All the best! Cheers, Ishant
You Amaze 1 Award - LLM Innovation
Thanks for Driving innovation for the team around the LLM Initiative. This is encouraging the culture of knowledge sharing and making sure the team benefits from other's learnings on a Project. LLM has the Potential to scale across CX and impact global community. Appreciate all your effort to drive this initiative with such Rigour.
You Inspire 3 Award - CXA Hack-Fest 2020 Core Team
I highly appreciate your significant contribution, dedication and commitment in implementing the vision of our CXA Hack-Fest 2020. Our continuous collaboration, managing the activities at the core, engaging with the participants and supporting the execution have been a master feat for us. Your support is sincerely appreciated and valued. Once again, it was a pleasure working with you, hope to see the collaboration continue for FY22.
Awards
Cisco Product Hack 2021
Won the Product Hack 2021, a Product Hack-a-thon around building a complete product portfolio from scratch and pitching it as Product Managers to judges acting as VCs over 3 rounds of elimination and among 38 teams.
Cisco APJC Innovation Challenge 2020
Won the CX APJC Innovation challenge among 383 teams, in 3 phases with 36 seasoned judges in phase 2 and another panel of 9 seasoned judges in phase 3 and developed a working product currently in production for the BDM team.
Code2Create | ACM | Hackathon
Developed a conversation based chatbot for chat based user transactions analyzing customer behaviour over time. (Machine Learning and NLP)
National Cyber Olympiad (SOF)
Round 1 city topper for the NCO, which is a cyber concepts and knowledge competition for students conducted by Science Olympiad Foundation.
Graphic Designing | World Innovation Day
Won the 1st runners-up position in the graphic design contest held and had my design featured on the cover page of the annual magazine.
IoT Exhibition | CSE Division
Won the best project award in the IoT exhibition held for the CSE division Expo for showing the usage of smart glove assistant for specially-able.
Publications
Springer Book Chapter
Right from its inception, social media has played a pivotal role in shaping the marketing strategies of today’s business. Businesses use marketing to successfully grow their market presence and improve brand awareness. The most effective marketing approach is one where social media and traditional marketing mixes are used in tandem. Social media marketing is a lucrative option for business owners as the cost of marketing is low and user feedback on social media Web sites and forums can be utilized effectively to constantly update the marketing strategy for maximizing gains. This chapter focuses on analyzing the Facebook marketing strategy of a certain company and providing a comparative study of visualization methodologies that present the client sentiment in the most lucid manner, thereby allowing the business owner to devise an effective business model with maximum returns and minimum expenditure.
Published in Elsevier Procedia
Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are used in computer networks to safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of sensitive data. In recent years, network traffic has become sizeable enough to be considered under the big data domain. Current machine learning based techniques used in IDS are largely defined on eager learning paradigms which lose performance efficiency by trying to generalize training data before receiving queries thereby incurring overheads for trivial computations. This paper, proposes the use of lazy learning methodologies to improve overall performance of IDS. A novel heuristic weight based indexing technique has been used to overcome the drawback of high search complexity inherent in lazy learning. IBk and LWL, two popular lazy learning algorithms have been compared and applied on the NSL-KDD dataset for simulating a real-world like scenario and comparing their relative performances with hw-IBk. The results of this paper clearly indicate lazy algorithms as a viable solution for real-world network intrusion detection.
Published in IJRASET, Vol. 5, Issue VI
The onset of the Big Data phenomenon, has brought to light the need to store and process data externally for effective and efficient computation. Cloud computing is a technology that has enabled individual users and organizations alike to implement such a functionality. Currently, a large percentage of the data being generated is stored on clouds and the number of organizations opting for cloud based technologies is constantly on the rise. With such growing numbers accessing and utilizing cloud resources, data security has become a major cause of concern. Traditional methods of cloud computing are becoming obsolete and ineffective with each technological breakthrough and data is thus highly subjected to getting corrupted or hacked. Machine Learning algorithms can be implemented to program the security mechanism such that the cloud is able to verify and secure the data with greater efficiency and improve the security predictions as more and more data gets accumulated. An AI (Artificial Intelligence) driven framework for cloud computing, can not only handle the current data traffic but is also a viable framework for the future as it learns and improves itself constantly as the accreted knowledge base increases. This paper implements Random Forest machine learning algorithm to improve the data security in cloud computing.
WORK
I have experience as a network consulting engineer and as a software developer. I find that my experience in both the roles has widened my horizon significantly in both the realms and the importance of the interplay of the two.
Organizations
Project Manager/Product Onwer
I currently work as a Project Manager (Specialist) and a Product Owner in the Professional Services business unit and work towards finding easy to understand technical solutions to complex business problems.
Network Consulting Engineer - II
Responsible for understanding customer requirements, providing technical consultation for enterprise solutions, for the entire Cisco Security Product Portfolio, designing high-level and low-level network designs, managing network security and migration for large scale networks. Software release cycle management including bug tracking and resolution for each software train.
Technical Consulting Engineer
I worked on enforcing network security for corporate networks and providing support for products like ASA and FirePower. A large part of my job entailed interacting with end customers on a daily basis and required troubleshooting and technical skills to solve product issues and for providing a good customer experience. I also developed internal tools and scripts for TAC and on FireConsole.
Network Engineer Intern
Worked on Wireless ENT technologies and built a tool for network automation of enterprise scale network clients for simultaneously WLC/AP config pushes for setting up high availibility parameters, FlexConnect configurations and client side debugging.
Software Engineer Intern
Learnt MEAN stack development with a practical project called “Shop Street”. An e-commerce website for local trader of Nagpur. Learnt about various SDLC models that tech companies deploy for developing software, and how to set reasonable deadlines and the importance of meeting them on time.
Chief Executive Student Editor
Responsible for managing the Times of India Newspaper’s Buzz Pages for a period of 2 weeks. Headed a team of 4 students and a host of daily reporters, article writers and contributors in publishing Buzz page of the Daily Newspaper.
Non - profit
Made the official website for the Women's NGO - Aashrita Mahila Mandal, a Nagpur based organization with educated middle-class women coming together to bring about a positive change to the society.
Responsible for managing blood donors and patients for a period of 2 years.
My role also involved guiding and assisting freshmen initiates of the club and teaching them the workings of Club Events such as Blood Donation and Awareness Campaigns.
Taught Website building to children from underprivileged families living in the urban slums as a vocational training they can use to make the internet work to their advantage or gain employment in the IT field.
Projects
A self-made AI algorithm for summarizing large texts into a short readable format without the use of any external/inbuilt libraries.
Developed a smart glove to interpret hand gestures and motions based on American Sign Language (ALS) using Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi.
Machine learning implementation for gathering data from Facebook feed (Likes), analyzing and classifying data into Big 5 personality traits for giving better understanding of user learning.
Built a Website for NLP based keyword search interpretaion. Developed an android app to keep dream journal and perform dream analysis using machine learning.
Developed an application to facilitate prepaid electricity options for optimal power consumption. Novel billing mechanism incorporated as solution for smart electricity in digital India.
INTERESTS
I have always been a sporty person and have played Table-Tennis for the past 10 years and love playing football. I also am a voracious and avid reader of all genres as long as the story has me hooked.
Table Tennis
National Table-Tennis Championship
Won the title in CBSE cluster IX and qualified for nationals from Cluster IX (Maharashtra).
CBSE Cluster IX
Won the 1st runners-up position in CBSE Clusters.
State Championship (DSO)
Won the table-tennis state championship for Maharashtra state.
Football
School Level Football Championship
Won the gold medal for 2 consecutive years at BBPVM school level football championship
District Football Championship
Won the silver shield rolling shield for the District Level Football Championship (DSO), Nagpur District.
LETS TALK
If you have an idea and wish to collaborate, or a query on any of the fields and technological domains mentioned above, please feel free to reach out to me.
- Bengaluru, Karnataka
- adityachellam@gmail.com
- Blog - Code of Coffee
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