Manager Software Engineer

Akshay Shah 408-***-****, **********@*****.***, www.akshayAshah.com

Objective

Seeking a full-time job as a Software engineer

Education

Masters in Software Engineering, 12/2010

San Jose State University

GPA: 3.71

Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology, 06/2006

Fr. CRIT, Mumbai, India

Diploma in Computer Technology, 06/2003

SAKP, Mumbai, India

Skills

Programming Languages: Objective-C, Java, Ruby, C, HTML5, CSS, Javascript,

PHP, JSP

Database management systems: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Voldemort

Software: MS Active Directory Services, MS Exchange Server, MS Operations

Manager, MS Virtual Server, JBoss, ANT

iPhone Application Developer at Proofpoint, Sunnyvale (06/2010 - Present)

. Developed an iPhone dashboard application for Proofpoint

. Part of a 2 member team responsible for development of the application

. Render graphs on iPhone using live data from the backend

. Parse and display latest news feeds on the iPhone

. Responsible for the design of the application's user interface

. Designed a RESTful API to access data from backend servers

. Familiarity with the Apple's App Store submission process

. Application submitted to App Store and waiting for review

. Application developed using iPhone SDK, Objective-C, JSON, Core-plot

and ASIHTTP frameworks

School Projects

Social networking website

. Add friends to your network

. View movies that your friends have been watching

. Post comments about movies

. Application developed using Ruby on Rails framework, HTML and CSS

Masters project (in progress)

. Interactive ebook reader based on Webkit

. Optimized for viewing on iPad

. Application being developed using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript

Current and historical weather data management system

. Collection of climatology data from two different data sources in a

queue

. Validating and storing data

. Data is provided in CSV, JSON and KML formats

. KML can be mapped onto Google Earth for visualization of data

. Application developed using EJB, JBOSS, Memcached, Junit and ANT

Media aggregator using Web services

. Content from four different web services was aggregated - blog,

associations, image and video

. A key-value based distributed database Project Voldemort used for

storage of data

. Application developed using Java and Web services implemented using

WSDL top-down approach

Developed a Video library system

. Video Library Management System provides the user functions such as

renting a movie, returning a movie, changing personal information and

searching for data based on the attributes of a movie

. Connection pools used for faster access to MySQL database and sessions

were used for maintaining user state

. Application developed using HTML, JSP, MySQL and Java web services

(JAX-WS)

Theatre booking system

. It's a role-based system. Administrators add movies and show times.

. Users book seats by selecting a movie and show time

. Application developed using PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS

Personal Projects

Designed my personal website (http://akshayAshah.com) and photo blog

(http://akshayAshah.com/project365)

. Customized the Tumblr and Wordpress theme for my blog and photo blog

respectively using HTML/CSS

User experience design (UX) http://blog.akshayAshah.com/library

. Re-designed the user interface of SJLibrary to enhance user experience

Developed a barebones twitter client for iPhone

. Application pulls tweets for the user

. Developed using Objective-C, Twitter API, JSON and iPhone SDK

Job Experience

Software Engineer at Infosys Technologies

08/2006 - 07/2008

. Planned and deployed the first ever customized end-to-end monitoring

and reporting solution using Microsoft Operations Manager 2007 for

Infosys's infrastructure running Microsoft Windows Server 2003, MS SQL

Server 2005, IIS 6, MS Clustering Services, ASP and ASP.Net

applications within a 3 month time-frame

. Involved analyzing problems, devising solutions for problems,

implementing the solutions and monitoring the systems post

implementation

. Carried out Change & Release management activity (ITIL framework) from

Microsoft India for over 10,000 geographically dispersed servers

across Server, Database and Storage technologies

. Simulated project production environments in MS Center Of Excellence

lab using virtualization software and resolved issues impacting

production environment across projects

. Published POC reports on 'Operations Manager 2007 integration with BMC

Remedy using Email Engine' and 'Operations Manger 2007 in a Multi-

tenant environment' on the Intranet

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