Professional Interests

Software Engineering with a focus on Testing, Programming languages, Program Analysis.

Education

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

M.S. Computer Science, May 2009 GPA: 3.4

University of Pune (Vishwakarma Institute of Technology), Pune, India

B.E. Computer Engineering, May 2006 GPA: 3.6

Skills

Languages

Java, C, C++, Python, Bourne Shell, Scheme, Javascript

Technologies/Frameworks

Android, JUnit, Swing

Tools

Eclipse, emacs, vim, GNU toolchain, valgrind, PIN, various bytecode instrumentors, awk, sed

Platforms

Linux, Solaris, Windows

Experience

Summer 2008

Google, Mountain View, CA

Software Engineer in Test Intern

• Implemented features for Testability Explorer, a tool that statically analyzes Java bytecode to identify hard-to-test code.
• Integrated it with internal Google Continuous Build system & source code explorer.
• Learned and practiced Test Driven Development.
  

Fall 2007 - Current

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Research Assistant

• Implemented a framework for tracking information flow within a program using dynamic taint analysis for Linux x86 binaries in C++.
  
• Created test subjects to facilitate research on automated testing.
  

July 2006 - June 2007

Calsoft Inc, Pune, India

Development Engineer

• Worked on the Java frontend of an enterprise level secondary/tertiary storage management product of Syncsort Inc.
• Designed and developed a multi-threaded dynamically changing screen that monitors activity throughout the system.
  
• Initiated and performed code optimization using code profilers and refactoring.

      

June 2005 - Mar 2006

Tata Research Development & Design Center, Pune, India

Project Intern

• Investigated techniques to reduce regression testing effort for Java programs.
• Led a team of 3 and designed a novel algorithm for prioritizing a test suite.
• Awarded 2nd prize at Concepts '06, a national level technical symposium.
  
  

Other Projects

• Developed a location aware mobile application that retrieves nearby Wikipedia articles and photos, made for the Android platform.
• Developed a system for extracting textual information from resumes using a Naive Bayes classifier. Full text indexing of resumes implemented using Lucene.
• Designed an extension to the C language that has lambda expressions and closures.
• Created a user level thread library for Linux.

Activities

• Open source software enthusiast and evangelist. Contributed to projects like KDE, Google Chrome, Ubuntu in patches/documentation.

• Won many intercollege programming contests and general knowledge trivia contests including one at IIT Bombay, India.

• Founder member of college Linux Users Group (LUG) in VIT.

• Grade II amateur radio operator (HAM).

References

Available upon request