Shashank Ashtikar

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Education

Master of Science: Computer Science, Arizona State University. Expecting to graduate in May 2014.

Bachelor of Technology: Computer Science, SRM University, India. Graduated in May 2012.

Technical Skills

: C, C++, JAVA (J2EE), VB.net, C#.net, Prolog

Programming Languages

: IBM Rational Rose, StarUML

Design Tools

: Adobe Photoshop, MS Expression Design, MS Expression Blend

Media Design

: Matlab, Mathematica

Math Modeling

: PHP, HTML5, CSS3, Silverlight, JavaScript, Python, SOA and REST, Bootstrap, ASP.NET

Web Development

: Windows Embedded 7 Standard

Embedded Development

: Windows Azure

Cloud Development

: XNA Game Studio, Unity, WPF, Blend

Game Development

: Windows Phone 7, Android, Sencha Touch

Smartphone App Development

: Oracle, SQL plus, MongoDB, MySQL

Databases

: Junit, Selenium, Mockito, Holodeck, Wireshark

Testing Technologies

: Struts, Spring

MVC Frameworks

: Git, SVN

Version Control

: Windows, Linux, and MAC

Operating Systems

: Apache Tomcat, Weblogic

Server Technologies

: Apache ANT

Scripting

Experience

SDE Intern at Amazon.com: [May 2013 - Aug 2013]

Worked with the Website Application Platform team and horizontally scaled an existing product using Java.

[Oct 2012 - May 2013 and Aug 2013 - Present]

Web Developer at Eight Arizona PBS:

Created dynamic pages http://www.azpbs.org/checkplease, http://www.azpbs.org/procedure, etc.

Developing and maintaining http://www.azpbs.org/. Managing static and dynamic content. Using HTML5, PHP, CSS, MySQL, Bootstrap and JavaScript.

Securing the website on page level against attacks such as SQL Injection, Cross site scripting etc. by PHP based data sanitization.

Reporting analytics and executing natural SEO practices using Google Analytics and Alexa.

Participant at Microsoft Research India Summer School: Quantified and analyzed several case studies in ICTD and socio-economic computing. [June 2010]

Student Technical Rep at Microsoft India: [Dec 2009 - May 2012]

Trained students and faculty in Microsoft technologies like Visual Studio, Robotics Studio, XNA Framework, Azure and Windows Presentation Foundation.

Windows Phone App Developer: Published several popular apps for windows phone (One game and four utility apps). [2011-2012]

Research Intern at National Institute of Technology, India: [Jun-July 2011]

Converted several sequential algorithms into their parallel equivalent using NVidia CUDA (C language) and achieved a max speed-up of 60X with programs, as a

part of ‘Earthquake Prediction System’ project.

SEO intern at Educloud India: [Feb-Jul 2012]

Optimized Google page rank and web presence of clients using Buffer, Google Analytics and Alexa. Managed online course system of client using Moodle.

Projects

[Sep 2012 – Dec 2012]

"Foreground extraction of video sequence using SSIM and mean frame approach" using Matlab and OpenCV

Extracted the foreground objects of a video sequence based on structural similarity and the extent of motion. Developed and extensively tested the module that

used mean-frame extraction method.

[Sep 2012 – Nov 2012]

"Critical thread prediction using non-conventional metrics" using Intel® Performance Counter Monitor and C++

Analyzed the metrics generated by the IPCM tool for memory-intensive and compute-intensive benchmarks to predict critical threads based on metrics other than the

traditional metric, the number of cache misses.

“Cryptographically secure multi-way transactions” implemented secure message encryption/decryption & transmission using Java . [Feb 2013 – Mar 2013]

“Loadable Linux kernel module to bypass the OS network layer ” [Feb 2013 – Apr 2013]

Wrote a loadable kernel module that bypasses the OS network layer by using socket, kernel threads, net device an d IP modules, implemented in C.

“Currency Converter Application – a complete testing suite” [Aug 2013-Nov 2013]

Developed a Java-based currency converting system for extensive testing- bottom-up test case generation by developing Test drivers in JUnit, top -down by

using stubs created in Mockito, regression testing, integration testing, exploratory testing, white, black and grey box testing.

“Bezier curves and Bspline curves modelling” [Sep 2013 – Nov 2013]

Computer aided Creation and manipulation of Bezier curves and Bsplines by processing geometric equations in Mathematica 9.

For a complete list of my projects, please visit http://ashtikar.in/Projects/projects.php

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