Computer Science Engineering

Shankaranarayanan Puzhavakath Narayanan (Shankar) Email: ***********@*****.***

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Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering (GPA 3.79/4.0) - Purdue University, Indiana. August 2009 - August 2014

Advisor Prof. Sanjay Rao.

Research Interests Enterprise and data-center networks, Network management

Major Computer Engineering; relevant courses - Algorithms, Computer Architecture, Compilers, Computer

Networks, Internet Architecture, Distributed Systems, Graph Theory.

B.E, Computer Science and Engineering (equivalent to B.S.) August 2002 - May 2006

Coimbatore Institute of Technology (Affiliated to Anna University), Coimbatore, India.

First class with Distinction, CGPA: 9.44/10.0.

Academic Achievements

University gold medalist, presented by Anna University for topping the Computer Science and Engineering course

during the Undergraduate program (B.E.).

Winner of Saraswathi Bai Ramachandra Gupta Memorial Award (2006) and Janakiammal Rajagopalachari

Memorial Endowment award (2006) for being the first rank holder in the undergraduate program (B.E.).

Professional Experience

AT&T Labs Research (Shannon Labs), Florham Park, New Jersey May 2010 August 2010

Summer Intern

Designed and developed generic and scalable change -auditing algorithm and framework for static analysis on router

configuration files (onsite and offsite collaboration).

Transitioned the research prototype implementation into a production utility deployed on a large customer facing

enterprise network. (offsite, post internship)

Mentors: Subhabrata Sen, Seungjoon Lee (AT&T Labs Research)

Purdue University - IT Enterprise Applications, West Lafayette, Indiana August 2009 - May 2010

SharePoint Administrator Graduate Assistant

Design, develop and maintain SharePoint sites for the Enterprise Applications at Purdue University.

Develop and design scripts/applications for migration of existing data and workflows into SharePoint.

D. E. Shaw & Co., Hyderabad, India June 2006 June 2009

Senior Member Information Technology

Designed and developed (as a team) the recruitment and contact management applications used within the D. E.

Shaw & Co., group. Tasks involved gathering requirements, modeling the business process/workflow, design and

implementation.

Designed and developed (with a co-developer) the Internet Job Site Portal of the D. E. Shaw & Co., group. Tasks

involved devising the data models, security, deployment infrastructure and optimization.

Headed a team of three developers on an Applications Unification project. Tasks involved project planning, resource

allocation, re-designing applications and devising a data-migration strategy across multiple applications.

Academic Projects

Enabling cloud-dynamics aware enterprise applications, devising systems that can be used by Enterprise

Applications to adapt to the dynamics of cloud environment. (current research)

Measurement and monitoring framework for applications deployed on the cloud. (current research)

Change auditing and template detection (static analysis) in device configuration, (Fall 2010 - Spring 2011)

Migration of security policies on a clean slate network, using Openflow and Mininet. Purdue University (Spring 2010).

Modeling device configurations for static analysis in Enterprise networks, using visualization techniques like routing

process and instance graphs. Purdue University (Fall 2009).

Computer Skill Set

Languages: Java, Python, Perl, C#, SQL, Ruby, JSP, JS, XML, Shell script.

Frameworks: Azure SDK, Amazon AWS, MVC Web App frameworks, J2EE, MS .NET, ROR, STRUTS 2.0.

Other Activities

Office bearer and member of the Indian Classical Music student organization at Purdue University.

Represented Purdue University and D. E. Shaw & Co. in competitive badminton and table tennis tournaments.

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