Gautham Pai «buzypi.in»

You can download my resume here.

Current job position

I currently work as a Software Engineer in Ugenie Software Development Centre.

Educational Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from SJCE, Mysore (2005)

Skill set

Programming/Scripting languages: Java/JSP, Javascript, C, C++, PHP, Python
Design methodologies: Design patterns, OOP Concepts, REST and Web APIs, Data Structures
XML technologies: XML, XSLT, XPath, XML Schema, DOM, SAX
Emerging technologies: Eclipse Modeling Framework, AUIML, AJAX, Django, Thrift
Tools: LAMP, Eclipse 3, IBM Websphere Application Server, Apache HTTP server, Drupal CMS, Apache Solr
Operating Systems: MS Windows, Linux

Experience

Total: 4 years
Lulu / weRead – January 2008 to Present
IBM India Software Labs – July 2005 to January 2008
IBM India Software Labs (Internship) – February 2005 to May 2005

Project work

Jan 2008 to present – Currently I work on weRead development. Noteworthy contributions are:

• Owned, architected, designed and developed the weRead application for the Yahoo Application Platform making it the first book application to be launched on Yahoo.
• I completely own the design and development of Author’s corner in weRead: Authors Corner is a platform for Authors to interact with their reades. It has been built using Drupal CMS. I have solved challenging problems like author profile claim and book claim processes, author deduplication and indexing via Solr, providing statistics to authors via RRDTool to mention a few.
• I also own SEO and internationalization efforts in weRead.
• I was responsible for the launch of weRead on Hi5.
• I have also done Apache Server Configuration and Analytics.

Jan 2007 to Jan 2008

• Worked on a project to provide support for the Bayeux protocol in WebSphere Application Server Community Edition and Geronimo.
• Also worked in a project to provide a hosted IDE called Zero Alive for Project Zero.

Jul 2005 to Jan 2007

• Worked in the development of the Security Policy Editor component of IBM WebSphere RFID Information Center.

Feb 2005 – May 2005

• Development of Abstract User Interfaces from Data models using Eclipse Modeling Framework and AUIML” – project work carried out at IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore.

Jul 2004 – Sep 2004

• “An alternative approach for UI design using XML/XSL in place of Java/JSP based approach” – a mini project carried out as part of project training in IBM ISL, Bangalore.
• “Constraint analysis of strictly conforming C programs” – a project on the front end of compiler design.

Leadership and management experience

• Successfully guided an internship project to bring Eclipse functionality to the browser. I was the brain behind this project and also its lead.
• Part of the program committee which organized the National Conference on Web 2.0 organized by Computer Society of India, Bangalore.
• I was involved in project internship programs and other university related initiatives in IBM.
• Chairman of CSI-SJCE during the academic year 2004-05.
• Headed the national level annual event of CSI-SJCE, “TechnologiX’05” held on April 01 and 02, 2005. Organized a unique event “Imagine” at TechnologiX’05.
• Worked as Joint secretary of CSI-SJCE during the academic year 2003-04. Jointly organized Mousehunt at TechnologiX’04. Also worked as stage-management committee leader for TechnologiX’04.

Talks and Lectures

• Conducted a hands-on session on ‘Plug-in development in Eclipse’ in IIIT, Bangalore – Oct ’07.
• Delivered a lecture and conducted a hands-on session on ‘RCP application development’ in VIT, Pune – Sep ’07.
• Delivered a lecture on Eclipse in VTU, Edusat – Sep ’07.
• Conducted a workshop on open source as part of IBM Technology Workshop in SJCE, Mysore. Delivered a talk and conducted a hands-on session on Eclipse as part of this workshop – Apr ’07.
• Co-speaker for the talk on ‘Innovation in Lotus products’ delivered in SJCE, Mysore as part of TechnologiX’07 – Mar ’07.
• Delivered a talk on ‘Enterprise application of Web 2.0’ as part of the National Conference on Web 2.0 organized by Computer Society of India, Bangalore, in Feb ’07.
• Delivered a guest lecture on ‘Web 2.0’ in Christ college, Bangalore – Sep ’06.
• Delivered a talk on behalf of IBM ISL in an event TechnologiX’06 organized by CSI-SJCE in SJCE, Mysore on the subject – RFID applications.

Strengths

Ability to jump into a project when things are hazy and bring clarity and deliver on time, ability to think out of the box, ability to train people, programming skills, ability to grasp new technologies in a short time.

Other achievements

• I am the inventor on a patent “Providing Security for Queries to Electronic Product Code Information Services”: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2008/0189758.html
• Paper on ‘System and method to interact with an Eclipse based application from an external system’ published in IP.com: http://www.priorartdatabase.com/IPCOM/000174160/
• Paper on ‘User annotations to facilitate collaborative web crawling and indexing’ published in IP.com: http://www.priorartdatabase.com/IPCOM/000152211/
• I got rewarded and recognized for my contributions to weRead in October 2008.
• Worked on the release of an Alphaworks technology by name ‘Web browser based interaction with the Eclipse IDE’. There has been a decent response to this technology on the Internet: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/eclifox
• Received a Bravo award for excellent contribution in evangelizing Eclipse in E-schools – Oct, 2007.
• Received the Innovator@ISL award – Feb 2007.
• I am an IBM Certified Solution Developer for XML and Related Technologies (Test 141).

Other activities

I am an active blogger. I maintain a site of my own and blog regularly at http://buzypi.in/.
Assisted Dr. S. K. Katti in his PhD project, “Finding the Eigen values of a matrix by graphical method”.

Languages known

English, Kannada, Hindi, Konkani.

Hobbies/Interests/Activities

Nature photography, reading books, blogging, listening to music, working on and implementing usable ideas.

References

Mr. Mekin Maheshwari, Director of Engineering, weRead.
Mr. Kiran Subbaraman, Architect, IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore.
Mr. Shrinivas S Kulkarni, IBM India Software Lab, Bangalore.