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Santhosh Kumar Dhanasekaran

Santhosh Kumar Dhanasekaran

Data Engineer at Rakuten| Microsoft Certified Trainer | Build with Azure | Pythonista | 12X Hackathon wins

Bengaluru, India

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Santhosh Kumar aka Sandy is a Data Engineer by profession, has an everlasting curiosity to try out new technologies, and shares his experience at community events.

Delivered five conference talks at Microsoft London office, Microsoft Bangalore office, Microsoft Chennai office, The Leela Palace, Chennai, and 10+ sessions for Azure Developer Community, won twelve hackathons participating solo (~$14,600+) from Microsoft, Atlassian, GitHub, Citi Bank, and other startups.

He is also a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) since 2021, teaching about Azure AI capabilities, and has the following certifications under his belt DP-203, DP-100, PL-900, AI-900, DP-900, AZ-900, and Lead for Azure Developer Community - Chennai region.
Once a coder, Always a coder - Sandy

Coder By heart!!!
GitHub Profile - https://github.com/Santhoshkumard11

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Finance & Banking

Topics

  • AI
  • Python
  • Python on Azure
  • Django
  • MySQL
  • Azure
  • Azure App Service
  • Microsoft Power Automate
  • Microsoft Power Apps
  • Microsoft SharePoint

Leveraging Azure OpenAI for Developer Efficiency through Atlassian Forge App

Leveraging Azure OpenAI for Developer Efficiency through Atlassian Forge App

Play the good old Space Invaders game with Azure Cognitive Speech Service

Replicated the Legendary Arcade Space Invaders from 1978 which is a shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado.
The game can be played via any web browser which supports WebAssembly. In addition to using your keyboard to control the game, now you can use voice commands to do the same actions. This implementation is done with Azure Cognitive Speech service.

- I’ll talk about the detailed end-to-end implementation of the game deployed in GitHub pages.
- Live demo in how it works and some challenges with solutions

* Python - General Programming
* Pygame - Writing Game Logic
* Pygbag - Python WebAssembly for everyone ( packager + test server )
* asyncio - Tried some asyncio code to await between Speech Service and command executions
* GitHub Actions - Convert Python code to WebAssembly and deploy it in GitHub pages
* Azure Cognitive Services (Speech Service) - Speech to Text conversion of the game commands

Power Automate your way to make payments from inside Microsoft Teams

There is this notion of fear when you enter your credit card details into a website.
What if we can eliminate the fear by providing payments from within the Microsoft Teams application?
Teams now have roughly 270M+ active monthly users, so if you have a shop available on the Microsoft AppSource and you need a payment solution, it would mostly be a redirect to an external page. Why is that the case, but not anymore, with this embedded checkout.

- I'll present a demo of the complete working of the application and also explain the setbacks faced during this development with Power Automate, Adaptive Cards, and Power Apps (UI magic)
- This talk will be focused on how you can integrate any payment checkout page into Microsoft Teams application

Services used:
- Power Automate
- Power Apps
- SharePoint
- Azure Functions
- Adaptive Card

MLOps with GitHub Actions vs Deploying in Azure Machine Learning

I started out as an ML developer and was deploying ML models in Azure. I was using Azure App Services with Flask, which served well for the purpose but now I wanted to implement something that could be consumed instantly and at a low cost.
I didn’t find any good source to accomplish this, so as any developer would do, I started using the trial and error method, it took a while for me to figure things out and make it work.
I faced a lot of hurdles and challenges while doing this, will discuss them in detail, it's always good to know when to use what.

Services used - Azure Function, Azure Machine Learning, and GitHub Actions

Make payments from inside Microsoft Teams

There is this notion of fear when you enter your credit card details into a website.
What if we can eliminate the fear by providing payments from within the Microsoft Teams application.
Teams now has roughly 270M+ active monthly users, so if you have a shop available on the Microsoft AppSource and you need a payment solution, it would mostly be a redirect to an external page. Why is that the case, but not anymore, with this embedded checkout.

- This talk will be focused on how you can integrate any payment checkout page into Microsoft Teams application
- I'll present a demo of the complete working of the application and
- I'll also explain the setbacks faced during this development with Adaptive Cards and Power Apps (UI magic)

Leveraging Power Platform to build an Enterprise-grade Skin Cancer treatment application

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer, globally accounting for at least 40% of cancer cases and the most common type is melanoma skin cancer, which occurs in at least 2–3 million people per year.

- This talk will focus on the insider aspects of how to solve it with the solution built completely on Power Platform from Microsoft Azure, as well as other Azure serverless offerings
- I'll be presenting a demo and a code walk-through on how this entire application functions (source code is open sourced)
- I'll deep dive a little into the image classifier, the abstract-level flow goes something like this, employees/nurses in the hospital can add a new patient and upload their skin sample image into the blob storage which triggers a callback and goes through the ML model for initial screening, the result is mailed to a dermatologist for closure. Once this is done, an appointment is scheduled automatically if cancer is detected and these are recorded in SharePoint List. The dermatologist can view the slots booked and the patient details.

Finally, I'll talk about the problems I faced in actually getting the image from Power Apps to the Function App.

Power Platform Developer Power Summit Sessionize Event

May 2024 London, United Kingdom

Experts Live India 2024 Sessionize Event

February 2024 Bengaluru, India

Global Azure 2023 - Bengaluru Sessionize Event

May 2023 Bengaluru, India

Global AI Bootcamp - 2023 @Chennai Sessionize Event

March 2023 Chennai, India

Az Community Conference 2022 (In-Person Only Event) Sessionize Event

October 2022 Chennai, India

Microsoft 365 Saturday 2022 @Chennai Sessionize Event

June 2022 Chennai, India

Santhosh Kumar Dhanasekaran

Data Engineer at Rakuten| Microsoft Certified Trainer | Build with Azure | Pythonista | 12X Hackathon wins

Bengaluru, India

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