OBJECTIVE

To seek internship in a challenging environment and work with tools that can shape future. To utilize analytical and algorithmic skills

EDUCATION

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Master of Science, Computer Science & Engineering, expected February 2012
● Fall 2010 Courses: Analysis of Algorithms, Information Retrieval, Knowledge Representation. Current GPA : 3.557/4.0
● Spring 2011 Courses: Large-Scale Distributed Systems, Analysis of Algorithms 2, Advanced Information Retrieval, Seminar on Data Intensive Distributed Computing
● Implemented text-based search engine using C++ STL.

Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai University
Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology, August 2004 - May 2007

Babasaheb Gawde Institute of Technology, Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education
Diploma, Computer Engineering, July 2001 - June 2004

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

● Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.4 certification with 91%
● Sun Certified Java Programmer 1.5 upgrade certification with 91%

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IBM (International Business Machine), India
Application Developer, December 2007 - June 2010
● 2.5 years of Java, J2EE development experience
● Design and development of various components of a web based contract processing application ‘Contracts Online’.
● Experience in using frameworks and design patterns, Struts, EJB, Singleton design pattern, Factory pattern etc.
● Proficient in writing SQL queries and using databases like DB2, Oracle
● Experience in design and development of Web services.
● Experience in software design, development and configuration management tools, servers including Rational Application Developer, Rational Software Architect, Rational Team Concert, Websphere version 6.0 and 6.1
● Experience complete cycle of software development, spanning over a period of 14 months implementing Agile Plus methodology
● Experience in development of Cron jobs to support ATS (Asynchronous Transaction Service) services.
● Experience in using operating systems including Windows XP, Unix, Linux

PROJECTS

Contracts Online (COL), IBM India, September 2008 - June 2010
● The project deals with “Electronic Contracts” within and outside IBM. Contracts can be submitted, approved, signed online through the application. It is available in 13 languages and 32 locales and has users all over the globe, 75% users are outside IBM.
● Technologies used: Java, J2EE, Struts, IBM DB2, Cron jobs, Web services, EJB
● Part of team to implement the Proof of Concept for the new COL architecture
● Performed design, development, coding and unit testing of the search module of entire web application
● Performed design, development, coding and unit testing of Administration module
● Performed design, development, coding and unit testing of Web services client and service component
● Performed knowledge transfer sessions to incoming developers.
● Performed development of cron jobs to automatically send emails to users on certain events

ACHIEVEMENTS/AWARDS

● Achieved percentile of 52 percentile in Algorithm coding track on TopCoder. (http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22657349)

● TopCoder Open (TCO) 2010 : Qualified to top 2000 programmers worldwide in Algorithm tracks
● Class topper for all 3 years of Diploma in Computer Engineering
● Won 2 monthly brain teaser coding contests at IBM.
● Mini-Project “Bus Reservation System” at IBM training was awarded as Best Project among peers. Implementation using web technologies
● Project selected for “ThinkQuest, Software/Hardware Challenge State Level Inter-Polytechnique Project Competition and Exhibition” at Final year Diploma Program.



ACADEMIC PROJECTS

SmartKhoj – A text-based search engine, August 2010 – December 2010
The focus of this project is to implement text retrieval system for news and wiki documents. The project has 3 components: Text parser, Indexer and Retrieval System.
• Text parser: This component parses two different sets of documents, News (pure text contents) and Wiki documents (containing wiki-style markup text). The parser performs the tokenization, stop words elimination, stemming, creating of term dictionary, file dictionary and meta-file for Wiki documents.
• Indexer: The indexer is implemented to support VSM (Vector space model) for ranking and scoring documents. 2 types of indexes are implemented namely, Forward Index and Inverted Index. Forward index maps documents to the bags of terms found in the respective document. Inverted index maps the terms to respective postings list. In order to overcome the limitations of the main memory, K-way merge algorithm is used to perform external sorting.
• Retrieval system: This component implements scoring and ranking the documents using Vector space model of scoring. Uses Inverted index to score/rank documents. Also performs PageRank algorithm by analyzing the wiki-links.
Language: C++ STL (Standard Template Library)

Web Services enabled email system, 2006-2007
The goal was to expose the email services through Web Services that can be discovered and integrated with existing systems to provide intranet email system. The organizations would discover and register with our service; then they would create a domain name for their organization through our service.
Technologies: Microsoft .Net, Web services

SKILLS

● Languages/Technology: C/C++, Java, J2EE, SQL, WebSphere Application Server, Struts, Web services, HTML, XML
● Database: DB2, Oracle
● Tools: Rational Application Developer, Rational Software Architecture
● Operating systems: Windows XP, UNIX, Linux.
● Methodologies: Agile, Agile Plus, Design Patterns, Software Engineering

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

● IEEE member for the year 2005.
● Entrepreneur Cell member in the undergraduate.
● Member of TopCoder, CodeChef online programming community(http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=MemberProfile&cr=22657349)


PUBLICATIONS

“Alpha-Beta Pruning, Its Parallel Variation and Analysis” published in Advances in Computational Sciences and Technology (ACST) journal, Research India Publications, September 2009.