Ketaki Vaidya
Email - ******.******@*****.***
**** ********* **, ********* *****, MD
Website - http://userpages.umbc.edu/~ketvaid1/
Software Engineer
Skilled developer with proven ability to adapt with any existing or
emerging technologies.
Education
. Computer Science - Master of Science
August 2008 - Present
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
GPA - 3.6/4.0
. Computer Engineering - Bachelor of Engineering
July 2003 - June 2007
University of Pune, India
GPA - 4.0/4.0
Technical Skills
. Languages C#, VB.NET, C++,Java, C
. Operating Systems Windows Vista/XP/9x/7, Linux/UNIX,
TinyOS
. Databases MS SQL, MS Access
. Web Technologies Web Services, ASP.NET, JavaScript,
HTML, Ajax, XML
. Tools Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, Rational Rose,
Eclipse, ANT
Professional Experience
. Software Development Intern June
2009 - August 2009
National Institute of Health (NIH), USA
Developed and enhanced features of Interactive Publications (Panorama)
- a data extraction and analyzing tool for PDFs.
Environment - JAVA and XML
. Software Engineer
July 2007 - July 2008
SunGard Financial Systems, India
1. Expense Analyzer
i. Designed, developed and tested a web based application
which helps users in expense management
ii. Managed the project from concept to deployment
iii. Technology Used - ASP.NET, C# and MS-SQL
2. Charlotte Front Office
i. Developed and tested 'Charlotte Front Office' - report
generation tool for asset management
ii. Enhanced the efficiency of the project by upgrading it from
Ajax-Pro to MS-Ajax
iii. Provided support by bug-fixing
iv. Environment - ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET, Infragistics,
JavaScript, AJAX
. Software Development Trainee July
2006-June 2007
Radical Systems Pvt Ltd, India
Developed a web based application - Generic Interface Configurator, to
provide solution to problems of dissimilar file formats by automating
conversion during data exchange.
Environment - ASP.NET, C # and MS Access
Concurrent Employment with College Studies
. Grader, UMBC(Spring '10) - Multi & Many-core Programming
. Grader, UMBC (Fall '09) - Problem Solving and Computer Programming
. Research Assistant, UMBC (Spring '09) - PostgreSQL Database
. Teaching Assistant, CSEE, UMBC (Fall '08) - Object Oriented
Programming and Design in Java
Research Work
. Developed and implemented an algorithm to establish connectivity in
structurally damaged Wireless Sensor Networks.
. Studying current approaches of connectivity restoration.
. Validate the results through experiments in simulated environment.
. Environment - Visual C++
Course Work
Advance Operating Systems, Algorithms, Service Oriented Computing, and
Parallel Programming using MPI, Computer Networks, Network Security
Projects
. Active Sensor Node Monitoring (Fall '09)
Designed and fabricated a web based application for remote sensor node
handling using SOA. Programmed sensor motes (mica2) to capture light
readings using ZigBee protocol in TinyOS environment.
Environment - ASP.NET, C#, Axis2, MySQL
. N body Problem (Spring '09)
Implemented N body problem which determines positions of N bodies
given the initial positions, masses and velocities. Enhanced
efficiency of implementation using 'Task Parallelism'.
Environment - MPI and C
. Randomized Algorithm for Online Story Scheduling in Web Advertising
(Spring '09)
Proposed and developed a prototype for a constant competitive
randomized algorithm to improve the efficiency of online job
scheduling.
. Processor Design for Online Shopping System (Fall' 08)
Designed a dedicated processor for online shopping application. Design
included caching and branch prediction mechanism.
Academic Achievements
. Publication - K. Vaidya, M. Younis,"Efficient Failure Recovery in
Wireless Sensor Networks through
Active Spare Designation" in Interconnections of Wireless Sensor
Networks (IWSN'10), in
conjunction with IEEE DCOSS.
. Have been awarded as a Teaching Assistant/Grader by University of
Maryland Baltimore County
during Master's program
. Among top 10 in a class of 70 students in final year under graduation
(65.26%)