Saranyan Vigraham

Searching TED talks contextually based on concepts found in narrations of the talks

https://medium.com/@saranyan/towards-a-meaningful-content-discovery-334c0ec7169

- Prototype app for TV and Retail kiosk commerce.
- Gesture driven browsing of product catalogs and checkout.

A chrome extension that gives an ability to display what a startup/company does by simply highlighting its name on a webpage.

I wrote the first version of the Bigcommerce developer portal, which was customer facing for 1 year and onboarded *a lot* of developers. No downtime ever.

- The documentation part of the site fed from Github where the docs were in markdown format
- Interactive documentation for code samples based on programming language of choice.

A visualization of different commerce APIs offered by eBay inc.

A project inspired from Mozilla's army of awesome. This tracks tweets about PayPal, analyzes the sentiment on them. Anyone can respond to tweets about PayPal.

- Part of application to YC W14 batch.
- Project to understand if we can track grocery carts instead of users in a grocery store (helps steer clear of privacy concerns while still providing rich data that can be used for product placement, etc).
- Real time dashboard and analytics
- Cloud architecture and analytics dashboard (Heroku, TempoDB)
- Hardware (Raspberry Pi), Ambient sensors

- Mech turking is very useful for specific repeatable tasks. However I feel that there are some repeatable tasks like data aggregation which scripting it better.
- Tasks at the intersection of automation and human evaluation are expensive to use for mechanical turking. An example might be - aggregate all children's books from amazon and segment them based on illustration style.
- The fitness functions for evaluating these tasks might need human intervention, but the actual tasks to get… Show more

- Mech turking is very useful for specific repeatable tasks. However I feel that there are some repeatable tasks like data aggregation which scripting it better.
- Tasks at the intersection of automation and human evaluation are expensive to use for mechanical turking. An example might be - aggregate all children's books from amazon and segment them based on illustration style.
- The fitness functions for evaluating these tasks might need human intervention, but the actual tasks to get there is repetitive (browser flows, search, etc).
- An interesting idea is to create tooling for such tasks and bring mechanical turks inside the loop within the tooling flow itself
- Currently testing it out on curating data from amazon (childrens books). Show less

There are several PayPal products, the transaction fees charged by PayPal is not always clear. This web tool, solves that need.

An experimental product taxonomy visualization using D3. Displays X.commerce product categories.

- Ability for Bigcommerce merchants to create a sale
- Stack -> Ruby + Angular, Heroku
- Iron workers to create, track stats and stop sales.
- Live app on Bigcommerce used hundreds of merchants - part of a future default product feature.

A semantic job search engine. Reads a LinkedIN profile and computes signals in terms of interests, skills, career direction and provides recommend jobs via Indeed API.

X.commerce Developer Bundles - Ruby and PHP (A starter kit for developers to quickly build X.commerce applications) - https://github.com/xcommerce/php-starter-template https://github.com/xcommerce/Rails-Getting-Started-Bundle

XOCL Visualization tool - X.commerce open commerce language is an experimental effort to define workflows for every conceivable commerce use case. The contracts/workflows are on github, but hey, who is going to browse that stuff? This tool makes the content… Show more

X.commerce Developer Bundles - Ruby and PHP (A starter kit for developers to quickly build X.commerce applications) - https://github.com/xcommerce/php-starter-template https://github.com/xcommerce/Rails-Getting-Started-Bundle

XOCL Visualization tool - X.commerce open commerce language is an experimental effort to define workflows for every conceivable commerce use case. The contracts/workflows are on github, but hey, who is going to browse that stuff? This tool makes the content discovery a breeze.

Schema and message generator - X.commerce used AVRO serialization language to defined message schemas. For complex schemas, it was challenging to construct a valid JSON message. To make things worse, the AVRO compiler did not specify why a message did not agree with the schema. (https://github.com/xcommerce/XFabricUtil/tree/master/tools/avdl_to_schema_generator)

X.commerce Product Taxonomy Visualization - Easy way to checkout all the product taxonomy and digest it without having to tear your hair apart. https://github.com/xcommerce/XFabricUtil/tree/master/tools/product_taxonomy_tree/v1.0

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