Software Development Engineer II Resume

SUMMARY

An accomplished creative software design engineer with over 5 years of experience in building web services for Bing and MSN.
Extensive experience in designing highly scalable search and social platforms. Invented various patented algorithms in social search space.
Excellent team player with strong written, verbal and analytical skills.

T EC HNICAL SK ILLS

Languages: C#, C++, C, T - SQL, XML, Java.

Operating Systems: Windows NT 2000/2003/2008 R2, Windows XP, LINUX

Database: SQL Server 2005/2008, MS-Access

Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, ASP.NET, IIS 7.0.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Software Development Engineer II

Responsibilities:

Designed and architected algorithms for social ranking across diverse social news sources to create highly relevant unified social news feed for the next generation MSN Social Experience (Project Social Edition).
Filed U.S. patent application entitled:SOCIAL WEIGHT OF SOCIAL MEDIA CONTENT(MS#331757.01).
Architected and implemented a scalable unified Search Engine for MSN Social Platform (Message Boards and Ratings & Reviews) including crawling, keyword extraction, indexing, snippet generation, query processing, dynamic ranker etc. A SQL Server based search engine that handled search functionality across MSN social properties in prominent MSN international markets including US, Europe and Latin America.
Designed and implemented algorithms that extract what’s hot across the web from various sources in real time and rank them in the order of popularity for “Pulse of the Web” feature in MSN home page.
Led cross team collaboration on building MSN Ad center based trend classifier and cosine similarity based clustering algorithm to detect and de-dupe duplicate trends.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Received multiple Ship-It awards and Gold Star Developer award for outstanding development work in shipping multiple releases starting from the first version of Live QnA.
Designed and architected integration of Bing search with Live QnA, developed UX for various QnA features and architected backend work for moderation features in QnA.
Designed and built the first version of “Search History” feature for Bing for personalized search recommendation based on previous search behavior.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Envisioned the app from scratch and prototyped a web solution which enabled users to share, search and discover trusted information across their social circle.
Designed and built personalized search engine and trend recommendation algorithms for social data.
Built a search toolbar to personalize Google search, based on user’s search history, page visits and personal documents like MS outlook contacts, appointments, emails and chats.
Using these records, the toolbar learnt a ranking function by machine learning methods so that most personally relevant results appear at the top of the list.
Implemented a Greedy Pruning Strategy, which runs faster than the traditional heuristics and also gives sub-optimal tours very close to Christofides’ heuristic which is a benchmark that the present tour construction heuristics can do.