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Houston, Texas, Us

Olathe, Ks, Us

→ Designed and implemented routing application for next generation car infotainment systems (C++, QML, Javascript)→ Designed and implemented radial gauges as a reusable widget in the HMI framework forcreating gauges like speedometer, tachometer, fuel gauges, compass (QML)→ Designed and implemented restricted mode for car infotainment systems. (C++, QML)→ Developed a tool to easily analyze communication between the car head unit and the embedded Garmin board. (Python)

Olathe, Ks, Us

→ Lead Software Engineer for programs delivering embedded GPS Navigation to ChryslerUconnect car infotainment systems; coordinated software development with a team ofdevelopers, software quality, program managers and clients; did software builds, and releases of artifacts using proprietary software configuration management system.→ Contributed to software development on several AutoOEM programs for customers like Kenwood, Panasonic, MELCO, Aston Martin and Continental.→ Fixed several defects in the shared code base involving examining the registers and stack traces from shutdown/crash reports with symbol tables and object code, debugging on target hardware with ARM RealView Debugger.

Tempe, Az, Us

→ Under the guidance of Dr. Dan Stanzione, did research to help better predict job slow down in multi-clusters that use coallocation. → Modified a commercial cluster software (Moab) to correctly span jobs across clusters. (C)→ Implemented various BeoSim job coallocation policies as plugins in Moab.→ Setup up a multi-cluster in the HPC lab (two clusters with 22 and 30 dual core nodes), experimentally identified flaws in the theoretical model (BeoSim Model) for parallel job scheduling, and proposed a corrected model that better accounted for job slow-down.

Santa Clara, California, Us

→ Implemented an application server and web services benchmark per the TPCApp specification for an intern project, titled 'Performance Benchmarking of XML processing in applications' under the guidance of Intel mentor Dr. Hari K. Tadepalli. → Implemented the system consisting of SOAP-based web services (Tomcat and Apache Axis), a database server (PostgreSQL and then MySQL) populated with over a million records, along with the emulated clients. → Profiled the application with JProfiler, used JDBC, Apache ActiveMQ(Java Message Service).→ Analyzed time spent in parsing SOAP envelope and body in the requests for a varying number of emulated clients as well as service interactions per second (SIPS), latency, and CPU utilization.

Tempe, Az, Us

→ Simplified the design of the iCareReader application system - a portable camera based scan and speak system - by eliminating the burden imposed on visually challenged users to not only launch 3 separate applications, but also to remember button layouts on each. → Reduced idle time for the user by redesigning the system to allow OCR of pages to happen in the background once some text was available to be spoken.→ Allowed for the the user to listen to the text (preview) if desired, before saving a file, rather than to add burden on users to delete a badly processed document.→ Worked with a company - Innovative Rehabilitation Technology - to explore opportunities for collaboration to help launch the research product in the commercial space. ▫ Modified DAISY file generation to emit DAISY 1.1 Type 6 to integrate with their Eclipse Reader. ▫ Created a command line interface for the application ▫ Showcased the system at the annual CSUN conference in 2007.

Pune, Maharashtra, In

→ Designed and developed the service broker wizard, a GUI tool to create service brokerobjects in Microsoft SQL Server 2005. (C#)→ Conceived, designed and implemented a LAN messenger called MediaShare, on which userscould share and stream their songs. This was included by Microsoft in the Visual Studio C++2005 starter kit available from MSDN. (C++)

Master Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology