Vaibhav Govilkar
Software Engineer
About Me
Current:
Software Engineer at Facebook, Menlo Park
Education:
MS, Computer Science at UIC
BTech+MBA(Dual Degree) at NMIMS, Mumbai
Past Experience:
Expedia, Orbitz Worldwide, Nokia Corporation,
Electronic Visualization Lab at UIC
Learning and Exploring:
Machine Learning, Deep Learning
and Artificial Intelligence
Full Resume
Web Applications
SticknShare
A full functioning and responsive single page angular web application that interacts with a firebase backend currently
deployed at "www.sticknshare.net".
This app allows users to 'pin'(add) lists of items like wishlists on to a pinboard. There is a common pinboard
shared between all users that syncs in real time. The app also features authentication using facebook's api to
allow private pinboards.
TBD : Share private pinboards with specific users.
Common Pinboard
Private Pinboard after logging in with Facebook
Door2Door Travel Time Estimator
A single page angular app with an express(nodejs) server that gives the fastest options to get from one address to another. It uses the expedia hackathon open api to get the flight time estimates from and to all available airports near the origin and destination, as well as the google maps api to get the estimate to and from these airports. The app is currently deployed on an aws EC2 instance.
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Activity based hotel search
An hackathon app built using angular, nodejs and springboot. It allows users to search a city for activities. The user can then look for hotels which will be sorted by proximity to these activities based on a walkscore based on google distance matrix api. I was a part of a 2 person team.
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Game Development and Graphics
Critical Mass
This game was developed by a cross-functional team of 5 (led by me) in Unity3d. It is a first-person-physics-puzzle shooter inspired by portal portal with three different gun types that manupilate physical properties of dynamic objects within the environment. Watch the full playthrough to see all the features
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Political Pinball
A politically themed pinball game built in unity3d with the ability to tilt the table in 3 directions using WAD using powerups.
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Gravity Bomber
Bomb targets as you manupulate gravity and control your ship in this arcade style game with a unique custom built physics engine in flash and an original score.
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Rail Simulation
At UIC's Electronic Visualization Lab I built the software on the 'RailSim' project. It involved the 3d visualization of a railway simulation in a virtual reality environment known as the CAVE2™. The CAVE2™ is a hybrid system that combines the benefits of both scalable-resolution display walls and virtual-reality systems to create a seamless 2D/3D environment that allows a user to get a highly immersive experience allowing for a detailed analysis of visualized scientific data.
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Other Projects
Perspective Projections
Infection (Game Concept)
Ray Tracing
Each pixel is rendered individually using a lighting equation that accounts for ambient light, diffuse reflection, a specular component and recursive reflection and refraction. The objects in the environment are read from various sample databases. Various reflective and optical materials have been rendered.
