Hi, I am Gourashyam Moirangthem

My friends also call me Sam. I am currently a Project Manager at IIIT Manipur.

I hold a B.Tech. with “Distinction” in Computer Science & Engineering and am a PhD candidate. I have around 8 years of experience with proven excellence in the field of Information-Technology (IT) and computer software engineering.

As a campus recruit in 2014, I worked for 3 years at WIPRO technologies as a “Project Engineer/Enterprise Platform Engineer”, specialising in Java. I was fortunate enough to be recognised as the Best Campus Recruit in the PES Excellence Awards 2016-17, and rated “Excellent” continuously in all the performance ratings.

From 2017 to 2020, I have engaged in freelancing and explored start-up ventures to bring IT solutions to the grass-roots level in the small state of Manipur, India.

Since 2020, I have been part of the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Manipur in conducting and managing R&D projects. Currently, I am working as a Project Manager for an R&D project for Machine-Translation of Manipuri language. During this stint, I designed and developed the first mass usable Meetei-Mayek Keyboard interface (published IEEE research paper on it and cited by Google NMT Researchers). Also, I could contribute my technical skills to the IIIT Manipur team in developing the first-of-its kind online multilingual dictionary cum thesaurus for Manipuri and four other languages of Manipur. The website is currently up and running at the KangleiWordnet website. Right now, I am dealing with cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) techniques in Neural Machine Translation.

I have proven excellence in software development, maintenance, research, and managing projects in AGILE, CI/CD environment. I am well versed in collaborating and communicating with teams, stakeholders, and clients. I love to explore new ideas and solution capabilities with the magic of computer programming.

You will find me listening to music, playing guitar, writing or debating about some random stuff, or strolling with my near and dear ones when I am not working.

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SOME NOTABLE PROJECTS Link to heading

  • ISHAAN: A System for Bidirectional Machine Translation between 1) English and Assamese, Bodo, Manipuri, Nepali 2) Manipuri and Hindi 3) Assamese and Bodo (A consortium project involving IIT Bombay, IIIT Manipur, IIIT Hyderabad, NIT Silchar, Guwahati University and North Bengal University.) Link to heading
    • Funded by: MeitY, Govt. of India, under National Language Translation Mission (NLTM)
    • Organization: IIIT Manipur, July 2022 to present
    • Working as Project Manager for the IIIT Manipur team.
    • Managing the team for corpus collection and development of Machine Translation tool in AGILE environment.
    • Handling team building and co-ordination, organization of trainings and events, manpower resource management, financial planning, reporting, stakeholder reach-out etc.
  • A Multilingual Reference Wordnet on four of the Indigenous Dialects of Manipur and Manipur Language Link to heading
    • Funded by: SERB, DST, Govt. of India;
    • Organization: IIIT Manipur, November 2020 to June 2022
    • Worked as Junior Research Fellow (JRF)
    • Handled the design and development of software environment including providing IT training of team members
    • Designed and developed the first mass usable Meetei-Mayek Keyboard interface, and published an IEEE research paper on it which was cited by Google NMT Researchers .
    • Conducted research and development in Natural Language Processing (NLP) regarding the low-resource Manipuri language.
    • Organized and co-ordinated the workflow of the team in AGILE environment
    • Developed and maintaining the KangleiWordnet website. which is first of its kind multilingual online dictionary cum thesaurus for Manipuri and four other languages of Manipur.
  • HP Unity – Platform Management Layers Link to heading
    • Tenure: WIPRO technologies (March 2016 to August 2017)
    • Client: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    • Team of 6 engineers.
    • Handled plug-in based Manageability layer of HP Unity storage product
    • Fixed several key bugs existing in the product
    • Enhancement of the old architecture to HyperConverge
    • Technology used includes Core Java, JaxRS, Git, UNIX, Python etc
    • Awarded Prodigy by team with 1000 recognition points in winner’s circle
  • HP StoreAll – Fusion Manager Link to heading
    • Tenure: WIPRO technologies (March 2015 to Feb 2016)
    • Client: Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    • Team of 3 engineers.
    • Handled FM component of HP StoreAll storage product.
    • Worked as Java developer in the team, handling all the roles from bug-fixing, unit testing, functional testing of the fixes and documentation etc.
    • Technology used includes Java, Subversion, Python, UNIX tools etc.
  • VirtualFence Link to heading
    • Open source assistive technology project (July 2015 – current)
    • Assistive Technology solution for Alzheimer’s patients, senior citizens and children.
    • Technology used includes Android App, NodeJS, MongoDB, GCM etc.
    • Drafting a paper on it.
  • Alzita Link to heading
    • Assistive technology project started in college (Sept 2014 to current).
    • Android application to assist enabling smartphone accessibility to Alzheimer’s patients and Senior citizens.
  • Web development Link to heading
    • Cost-effective, clean and minimalist web solutions
    • Used technologies, tools and services as PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap, Laravel, Hugo, Github, blogger, Wordpress, shared hosting and domain name registrations.

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SOME CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Link to heading

WHAT I DO FOR FUN Link to heading

  • Writing
  • Open-source contribution via GitHub, Gitlab.
  • Participate in Coding challenges as HackerEarth
  • Conferences, Conclaves and Exhibitions
  • Guitarist (College Music Club), Harmonium player (School Music Club)
  • High School Karate and Judo player

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Link to heading

  • Base skill:
    • Artificial Intelligence (Machine Translation)
    • Python
    • Java
  • Well versed in:
    • Storage domain (NAS), SQL(MySql), JaxRS, Shell, XML
    • PHP, Javascript, NodeJS, ExpressJS, MongoDB
    • Web frameworks as Laravel, Hugo
    • Android apps
  • Knowledge of:
    • C, C++, C#, ASP.Net
    • Matlab
    • Blockchain, AWS, Hadoop, MapR etc.
  • Tools:
    • Anaconda, Jupyter, Tensorflow
    • Git, SVN, Code Collaborator, Bugzilla, Unix tools
    • Eclipse, Android Studio, Netbeans, Vi
    • Windows, Linux(Ubuntu), Unix

AREAS OF INTEREST: Link to heading

  • Artificial Intelligence (Machine Translation, Automatic Speech Recognition)
  • Assistive technology solutions based on sociological impact.

Thanks for dropping by.