Experience

Gumption Labs

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CoFounder

  • Jul 2009 - Present

  Enjoying the roller-coaster ride. Launched our first product: TradersCockpit (http://www.traderscockpit.com/) and quite happy with the traction. Looking after strategic partnerships, fund raising and business development. Doing services for sustenance and totally responsible for managing the customers, managing the internal resources and getting more business. Besides managing all the projects, actively involved in implementation of projects using Django and Python



Freelancer

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelancer

  • Jul 2007 - Jan 2009

  Liqwid Krystal (http://www.liqwidkrystal.com/) August 2008 – January 2009 * As a subject matter expert developed question banks for C, C++, Unix and Networking Cosmic Circuits (http://www.cosmiccircuits.com/) November 2008 – December 2008 * Simplified the account management across different operating systems by demonstrating authentication of Linux users with Active Directory * Configured PAM to use Kerberos authentication and NSS to use LDAP Saankhya Labs… Show more Liqwid Krystal (http://www.liqwidkrystal.com/) August 2008 – January 2009 * As a subject matter expert developed question banks for C, C++, Unix and Networking Cosmic Circuits (http://www.cosmiccircuits.com/) November 2008 – December 2008 * Simplified the account management across different operating systems by demonstrating authentication of Linux users with Active Directory * Configured PAM to use Kerberos authentication and NSS to use LDAP Saankhya Labs (http://www.saankhyalabs.com/) December 2007 – August 2008 Saankhya Labs is a fabless semiconductor startup developing next generation products for Consumer Electronics market. Used lex and yacc for the first time in my professional life * Implemented a 2-pass assembler for a set of DSPs designed by Saankhya Labs * Assembler implements a sub-set of C language features * Assembler generates the object file in the ELF format OpenClovis (http://www.openclovis.com/) July 2007 – November 2007 * Statically analyzed the complete high availability middleware code to find bugs and the coding guideline violations * Evaluated various tools available for static analysis and selected Open Source splint Show less



OpenClovis

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Lead

  • May 2006 - May 2007

  OpenClovis is a startup in the area of high availability middleware. Worked with an extremely talented engineering team in a highly challenging environment * Owner of cluster wide logging service of the middleware * Added a feature in Open source implementation of Totem single-ring ordering and membership protocol, which was urgently required by a client



Liqwid Krystal

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Manager

  • Oct 2000 - May 2006

  Liqwid Krystal is the first start-up that I worked for. We created award winning products in the domain of eLearning. I evolved from being an individual contributor to a manager and learnt how to handle challenges - technical and non-technical. Got good exposure to the Open Source software world * Managed CodeSaw product. CodeSaw is the winner of IT Innovation Award 2005, NASSCOM * Made CodeSaw highly available and secure by using virtualization technology * Made CodeSaw highly… Show more Liqwid Krystal is the first start-up that I worked for. We created award winning products in the domain of eLearning. I evolved from being an individual contributor to a manager and learnt how to handle challenges - technical and non-technical. Got good exposure to the Open Source software world * Managed CodeSaw product. CodeSaw is the winner of IT Innovation Award 2005, NASSCOM * Made CodeSaw highly available and secure by using virtualization technology * Made CodeSaw highly scalable by using load balancing server cluster technology * Managed WinTrail Product and implemented Flash movie generation module * Implemented OKBC (Open Knowledge Base Connectivity Protocol) Show less



Novell

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Aug 1997 - Sep 2000

  Started my professional career with Novell. Worked with a great team that helped me develop expertise in Networking Protocols, Directory Services and taught me all about good programming practices * Implemented rfc 2307 (Using LDAP as NIS) * Implemented rfc 2165 (Service Location Protocol) * Developed proof-of-concept for providing directory infrastructure in a resource constrained environment