SUMMARY:

I am a hands on software professional with experience in leading up to 10 people teams and delivering results to achieve organizations goals. I have worked in agile environment and have done 4 startups in my career. I also have worked for fortune 100 companies to bring cutting edge technologies to market in a form of a product. I have performed duties at all different level in software based technology organizations.

EXPERTISE AREA:

• Linux Kernel/Driver Programming
• Building Linux based Computing Clusters (super computer)
• Writing spiders/web crawlers
• Real - time, high performance embedded systems
• Have build four companies
• Was CTO of a publicly traded companies
• Have personally participated in raising of $2MM in funding
• Was part of a company which got acquired for $70+MM

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Linux network processing
• Linux Kernel/driver development
• Embedded systems
• Video-audio processing
• Parallel processing
• Web spiders
• Online digital marketing
• Linux, Windows, MacOS
• C, C++,Python and Bash scripting
• Build tools make, cmake, yocto, Jenkins etc.
• Packaging using rpm, deb
• GIT, SVN
• Ansible Playbooks
• Django, HTML, CSS
• Machine Learning
• Budget and project planning
• Experience with agile project management
• Software architecture
• System architecture
• Open source software

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Principal Software Engineer, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Bug-Fixes and Product Maintenance for Confidential product
• Work with Yocto based embedded Linux system for Confidential
• A few feature development for resetting hardware properly and temperature control on device using C and C++
• Bash scripts for watchdog applications
• Python programming for some inhouse tool development and bitbake debug work
• Jenkins build system and other software tools for contineous integration, improvement and development

Confidential

Principal Software Engineer, Germantown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team to virtualization of network test equipment.
• Porting of open-source Linux software to native MS Windows.
• Java maintenance and feature enhancement work.
• Linux kernel module porting to different kernel versions.
• Exploring and Adopting a faster TCP stack called fast path from 6wind for product enhancement.
• Fast Path modules design to transmit and receive traffic at high speed.
• Python based test automation system work.
• Ansible playbooks for mass deployment and management tasks

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Principal Software Engineer/consultant

Responsibilities:

• Set Top Box troubleshooting.
• RDK development for Confidential set top boxes ( platforms provided by Intel and Broadcom)
• Qt 4.7 and Qt 5.0 based GUI development.
• Linux module porting.
• Adobe Flash player and Adobe video engine based development and integration in Confidential products
• CDVR - cloud based DVR troubleshooting.
• Write automation scripts in Python and bash.
• Network troubleshooting (ipv4, proxy servers, firewall settings, etc).

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Software Engineering Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Port a windows build system to Linux using CMake.
• Package software for Linux into RPM, DEB and Tarball format.
• Write INIT system to initialize system in single and multiple node environments in Python.
• Design and rewrite INIT system to initialize system in single and multiple node environments in bash
• Worked on PXE-boot setup for a up to 6400 nodes super computer
• Set up and maintain MySQL database (on the fly as well as on a server)
• Bug fixes in C++ code
• Create a Linux cluster of 10 machines to perform high speed computing with parallel processing
• Write utility to convert Makefiles into Cmakefile.txt files ( will be opening up as an open source project)
• Write Python utilities to check status on multiple nodes from a head node.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Software Developer

Responsibilities:

• Update Unix SCO software to maintain its validity for new hardware platforms.
• Develop Linux software (API programming in C) for Database management.

Confidential, Plantation, FL

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Verify software features to determine that they meet customer needs.
• Write test scripts to test developed software to give better products.
• Debug software to find realized bugs in software code.
• Generate test reports to document the product life cycle.

Confidential

FOUNDER and CEO

Responsibilities:

• Market research and product validation
• Build a team of 5 engineers overseas
• Write entire OpenRTB software stack in C++
• Write a Django based digital advertisement product to do digital advertisements, email marketing and SMS marketing
• Experience with reusing open source django applications and enhancing them
• Experience with integrating with third party service providers like Twilio and many others to create highly flexible loosely coupled system
• Create compute cluster for high volume data processing
• Write data gathering spiders

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Assistant CTO

Responsibilities:

• Joined a start up team in early stage venture
• Organize software flow for smooth operation and report to CTO and CEO.
• Worked with executive team to support different investment rounds to raise $1.5MM
• Built and lead a team of 10 engineers locally and remotely (over seas operations)
• Evaluating bare bone Linux against Windows for STB software stack.
• Develop framework in C++ to design daemons and application software for other developers to work on.
• Linux kernel tweaking and boot-loader experiments.
• Lead a team of 4 developers.
• Set up TCP/IP based network topology.
• Develop TCP and UDP based client-server software.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Chief Technology Officer

Responsibilities:

• Founding member of a start up team reported to CEO and COO
• Built and Lead a local and over seas team of 7 engineers
• Created a web spiders to gather items from different retail stores
• Part of fund raising campaign to raise $750,000
• Created highly scalable software architecture to run the product without issues
• Exited out of the company when company went public